| TheDarkBender said: James Armstrong, Vice President of SCEE (CEO SCE Spain and Portugal) told in an interview that won't be better graphically than the PS3. He said: It’s hard to say right now.I do not think we’ll have a console with a lot better graphics than the PS3 currently offered.I believe the future will be to offer consumers better and more accessible experience .The aim will be to make more people enter the world of video games and try to design titles for women. link: http://gamingbolt.com/sce-executive-ps4-may-not-have-better-graphics-than-the-ps3 |
Yeah like a marketing and business guy like that knows anything about tech, he probably doesn't even play games and is just towing the company line that the PS3 is extreamly powerful while adding some marketing spin. You got to remember higher up people than this guy was saying that the PS2 was going to produce Pixar level visuals, they wouldn't know their pixels from their polygons.
Lets compare the GPUs of the xbox line and the top GPU of it's day so we can see where the next box will be if they went for a tradtional power jump
| Model | Year | Fab (nm) | Memory (MB) | Core clock (MHz) | Fillrate | Memory | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pixel (GP/s) | Texture (GT/s) | Bandwidth (GB/s) | Bus type | |||||||||||||
| XGPU (Xbox) | Nov 2001 | 150 | 64 (shared) | 233 | .932 | 1.864 | 6.4 | DDR | ||||||||
| GeForce3 Ti 500 | Oct 2001 | 150 | 64/128 | 240 | ??? | 1.920 | 8.0 | DDR | ||||||||
| Xenos (Xbox 360) | Nov 2005 | 90 | 65 | 45 |
512 (shared) 10 (eDRAM) |
500 | 4 | 8 | 22.4 | 256 (Logic – Memory) | GDDR3 | eDRAM | ||||
| Radeon X850 XT | 2005 | 130 low-k | 256 | 520 | 8.32 | 8.32 | 34.56 | GDDR3 | ||||||||
| Next box | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? | ||||||||
| Radeon HD 6970 | Dec 15, 2010 | 40 | 2048 | 880 | 28.2 | 84.5 | 176 | GDDR5 |
as you can see traditionally MS have matched the high end PC GPU at the time of launch and due to the short life span of the OG Xbox only quadrupled the power. And even today GPUs exist that are up to 10x that of the power of the 360 in terms of the amount of textures and 7x the possible resolution/AA so even if MS go for a lower than traditional GPU for their next console by using a GPU that matches what will be a 2 generation old GPU by the time the next box releases they will have a console that is over 8 times as powerful as the current generation. If they go all out (not likely) they could have a console with a GPU up to 12x the power of the 360 in 2013. So if you think about it 6-8x is probably conservative.
Also considering that the Wii U is aparently 50% more powerful than the PS3 and that early dev kits are aparently heavily underclocked and have less RAM than production hardware even the Wii U may be twice as powerful as the PS3 in the end.
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