joeorc said:
I also do not agree with his comment, but on the same token I do not agree with your take also, If anything it's going to be less of an upgrade than ever before. there is just to many developer's that are still learning multi-core cpu development. not to say this apply's to Developer's with development with GPU's, but many developer's that may make up your team that has not that much experience. I think due to that alone the upgrade will be slight not very big. there is just too much of the "pc centric" design in these game console's that just help to keep the system's more viable longer with how powerful these system's are. they pack quite a bit of a punch, which many in the industry most likely did not expect. |
The systems we have today are circa 2005 era machines. The PS3 was simply delayed but at its core the compute components were finalised around 2005. If we're talking about the future then you'd have to consider the next machines to be at least DX12 class machines. We're having a little revolution in terms of how content is created in referrence to the tessellator and the compute shaders are opening up new models of programming never seen before.
If the next generation comes in 2012 we can expect the initial designs to be made on the 22nm or 18nm process nodes. That means we can expect at least 4B transistors or an 8 fold increase. We won't be using artists to recreate the world we will be using the world and recreating it in games. Theres a tonne of potential untapped in todays DX11 graphics cards, with DX12 there will be even more potential and that potential will be easier to tap.
