This caught my eye linked from google finance/related to Nvidia.
That article got some laughs out of me.
“Today we have two of the three consoles that operate in full high-definition and are running games at 60 frames per second,” Brown said.
False. Consoles cannot run any modern games at 60 fps at full 1080P (not upscaled) with 4AA/16AF. BF3 will only be running at 30 fps and that's not even at 1080P......Most PS3 and 360 games run at 1280x720 and some are running at 1024x600. This myth has continued throughout the entire PS3 / 360 generation. The fact is, 99.9% of all consoles games aren't running at native 1080P resolution.
“If you step back and say if it’s a multibillion capital dollar investment for the next generation, the question I would ask is ‘if you were to produce that then what would you display it on?’ There’s really nothing in terms of broadly available consumer viewing technology other than 1080p flat panel televisions. And so you could upgrade in theory, but you wouldn’t get the obvious graphical benefit that we saw really drove the sharp transitions in the prior cycle.”
Here we go. The same thing must have been said every new console launch. I love how these developers will come up with all kinds of BS reasons why we should all cling to ancient hardware. He should just be a grown up and come out and say it like it is: I am in the business to make $, and as such I am not looking forward to spending $20 million on hiring talented artists to extract better graphics from all this awesome new hardware. I would much rather see you console "noobs" continue to pay me $60 for Gears of War Version 1386, running on the same engine I designed in 2006.
Also, with smartphones advancing every month, we should have seen declining game sales since he is implying that more people are starting to play on these capable devices, in turn abandoning traditional consoles/PC. Yet, BF3 and Black Ops are going to break their franchise sales records once again. Clearly,
core gamers aren't interested in gaming on tablets or smartphones, regardless of how powerful they are getting. What he is talking about being able to wirelessly transmit a game like Gears of War 6 onto a 50 inch TV at 1080P won't happen with smartphones for another 5-10 years, at least.
Battlefield 3 preorders are 24x BF2 in UK. This guy should worry about how they are going to resurrect the forgotten Unreal franchise after they sold out to consoles, rather that come up with comments that we don't need next generation graphical capabilities on consoles because of 1080P limitation.
OR maybe he thinks iPhone 8 will have the hardware to stream
graphics like this in 5 years?
He can't be serious, right? Every single major graphical improvement from now is going to take a massive increase in horsepower. To improve graphics we require realistic physics, lightning and tessellation. All of those things will eat hp for breakfast. The trend with stylish smartphones like iPhone and Android is to go thinner/slimmer with improved battery life. So we definately
need consoles that are 10x as powerful or we'll just continue to have COD 15 with 2006 graphics.
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