| Khuutra said: It's not the ultimate system until it can reasonably simulate me standing on top of the CN Tower and looking around, with every single building and landmark visible from that high up, more than a hundred miles, being rendered all at once. I want every single person on the ground in Toronto to be rendered at the same time, all the hundred thousand or so walking the streets at any given moment. I want ever single one of them to have individual AI patterns and to react differently to changes in their environment. I want to be able to walk through the streets and have the average observer not tell that I'm playing a video game. Gentlemen, we are not even close to realizing the dream yet. |
While that may be true, getting there will be very incremental. Will you be willing to buy a new system for 400 dollars every 5 years to get there little step by little step? One console capable of rending 200 people with dumb AI patterns, 5 years later 400 people with semi smart AI patterns and simulated weather affects, 6 years later 700 people with good AI patterns and dynamic weather, ect ect.
My point isn't that technology is maxed out, but rather the increase won't lead to anything significant by leaps and bounds so much as small incremental differences that may someday add up. But people won't be willing to shell out hundreds of dollars for incremental difference.
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