Looks beautiful and can't wait to see what kind of stuff they'll be able to do next-gen. Here's the video embedded for anyone who wants to watch it.
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So was that rendered in real time or pre-rendered?
I hope next gen will look that good.
It was all real-time rendering which makes that tech demo even more jaw dropping. Epic proved it by pausing it moving the camera around freely, turning off things like shaders and stuff in real time to show the differences with it on and off and other stuff like that. Needless to say if games look this incredible while I'm playing them next-gen i will be MORE than happy because there hasn't ever been a game released with this level of graphics in game before FOR SURE.
That tech demo was running on three GTX 580 cards. Next gen consoles will not have anywere close that much power.
Well according to Epic they will, and if you look at what they said the PS3 and 360's power would be equivalent to back before the specs on those two systems were even revealed they were pretty much exactly on. Regardless of whether or not people are fans of their games, there is no doubt that Epic does know what they are talking about when it comes to hardware and graphics. Now it might not be quite that powerful but probably pretty close. I don't think we'll see new hardware from Sony or MS for At least 2 more years and by that time this level of technology will have dropped substantially in price.
It's not the price that is problem. It's heat and power usage. Even this gen MS (and to some extend Sony) had huge problems with heat and power usage of their consoles (remember RROD and YLOD) and today graphics cards put out even more heat than before and need a lot more power (one GTX 580 warms up to 85C in usage and uses 250W of power). There is not doubt that we will see nice graphical leap next gen as even one GTX 460 is billion time more powerfull than RSX or Xenos but the leap wont be as big as before.
You may be right, who knows still too early to tell, but just simply the fact that Epic able to generate this kind of graphics all in real time is damn impressive and exciting, the future of gaming will indeed be AWESOME.
