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Forums - Gaming Discussion - Microsoft won Gen-8 against Sony, already?

torok on 06 December 2012
walsufnir said:
zumnupy10 said:
walsufnir said:
zumnupy10 said:
I doubt Sony will use DX11. Working with OpenGL was never what developers complained about PS3. 256MB of Ram and an exotic cpu was.

Besides, Why would they do that ? More and More games are supporting linux now.

Linux games will rise exponentially over the next few years.


oh no, not linux again. really, i use linux at work and at home, definitely my preferred os, but please, don't make predictions to linux - this has been done way to often and sadly was always wrong.

Valve is making steam works with Linux. 

if i understood correctly, steam is only a delivery platform - it does not magically make windows games work under linux. it also does not solve driver issues people have with their nvidia- and amd-gpus. correct me, if i'm wrong.


Yes, Steam is just the delivery platform. But they have ported Left 4 Dead 2 and one Sam and Max game too, and probably more will come if it succeeds.



Bet with jetforcejiminy: PS4 will pass the Wii lifetime numbers.

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richardhutnik on 06 December 2012
biggamejames79 said:
Could be a big plus for MS if it's true with the licensing fee, mo' money!

Microsoft swaps Blu-Ray license for Direct X license.



ethomaz on 06 December 2012
torok said:
PS3 and Wii don't use OpenGL, they use custom graphics APIs. They will just provide a similar set of features in PS4. Correct me if I'm wrong, but believe that even 360 (that has DirectX) has a custom API for better performance that's the one used by most games.

I don't know Wii but PS3 uses OpenGL ES (and a low level libgcm library).

Now the PS4 is to use a custom API created buy Sony but I think the OpenGL ES will be present too.

OP. No console can use DirectX except Xbox ones.



torok on 06 December 2012
ethomaz said:
torok said:
PS3 and Wii don't use OpenGL, they use custom graphics APIs. They will just provide a similar set of features in PS4. Correct me if I'm wrong, but believe that even 360 (that has DirectX) has a custom API for better performance that's the one used by most games.

I don't know Wii but PS3 uses OpenGL ES (and a low level libgcm library).

Now the PS4 is to use a custom API created buy Sony but I think the OpenGL ES will be present too.

OP. No console can use DirectX except Xbox ones.

Thanks for the info, it was an old doubt.



Bet with jetforcejiminy: PS4 will pass the Wii lifetime numbers.

superchunk on 06 December 2012
Galaki said:

Now that we know PS4 will be using DX11.

So, Microsoft not only get licensing fee off of PS4, they are also better at it, since they own the tech and all.

Xbox3 will dominate the graphics area for Gen-8, it seems.

Its not using DX11.

Its using an API that has technologies that are similar to what is found in DX11... just as WiiU reportedly does.

DX11 will only be on Windows PCs and Xbox.