| HappySqurriel said: The HD4870 is an impressive peice of technology, but by the time the next generation begins it will be a low end graphics <snip> |
Unless middle ware completly soaks the slack and other developers sell their models for reasonable costs. yeah right.
There is also however another technological barrier that isn't mentioned with the tech. Memory and Storage. The Ruby demos look awesome, but how much RAM and storage does that all use. I don't have the time to check at the moment, but these visuals while impressive for the card may have limitations in our homes. The computer it's running on could have 6gigs of ram and the total storage could be 200gigs while running on a quad machine. Realisticly there are not enough people with machines like this next generation. Let alone consoles don't make the memory leaps like PCs do. Even the XBox360 has only 512. I know consoles don't need as much since they don't have the same OS overhead, but still those sample videos could require a whole lot more.
Squilliam: On Vgcharts its a commonly accepted practice to twist the bounds of plausibility in order to support your argument or agenda so I think its pretty cool that this gives me the precedent to say whatever I damn well please.
