Sony Working On "New Console" with AMD Graphics, Says Report

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bigusdickus said:

Solid-Stark said:
Idk but I think the PS4 may have to have an Nvidia GPU to have BC.

I'm not sure that will be the case. I think all PS3 games are developed using API calls and no direct access to the GPU hardware so there shouldn't be an issue switching to AMD so long as the new card has a superset of the NVidia functionality.

With consoles the engines are optimised using the GPU's coding, that is how they pump out more graphical "power" at the end of a console gen. Which is what bit the 360 in the but for BC this gen.

But it doesn't have to have a nVidia GPU to be BC, the chip was mainly Sony's design so an emulator could be made the problem comes in how much nVidia code is in the chip. And what games use it.