Pemalite said:
mjk45 said:
the truth is you are treating a software choice as if it was the hardware itself .
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You're missing my point entirely and are now putting words in my mouth.
Developers want to make a game as cheaply and quickly as possible, designing a game for the plethera of hardware directly is time consuming and expensive.
The solution? An API that sits between the hardware and software with a common feature set, this is where Microsoft enters the arena.
Microsoft works with graphics companies to dictate that feature set on the PC and even invents new technologies to go into that feature set.
Console manucturers pick up the PC GPU's that adhere to that feature set and whack them in their consoles, so Microsoft has a fairly large hand in dictating the capabilities a console has graphically.
That's why the GPU in the PS3 is a Direct X 9 Shader Model 3 specced PC part, because of Microsoft and Direct X and nVidia.
nVidia's first GPU for instance didn't use rasterization, hardly any games supported it, nVidia's second ever GPU then adhered to Direct X's Polygon based rasterization rendering, which then could run any game that adhered to that Direct X standard.
How you can flatout deny that Microsoft has had no part in the development of GPU technology I will never know, They have been doing this for almost 2 decades now.
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Where did I put words in your mouth ? , I stated that you are treating software as if it was the hardware and that's my opinion it's not putting words in your mouth , yes what you said would hold some water if they all used direct x but I would be arguing the same if the roles where reversed , it doesn't come down to MS 's part in the evolution of DX and through it's domination it's use in GPU tech in general,but the assumption that Sony is beholden to it just because they use a custom card based off one with dx capabilities , it's a chain with so many links that you can find an argument that just about every player who made an impact in the industry is beholden to the other , whether it be through pioneering work or taking something that someone else did and making it popular , look I'm not trying to downgrade MS or DX both are great ,it's just that I think it is a long bow to draw , so has happens in most disagreements when both sides mind are concrete , we will have to agree to disagree , still It was a nice argument that I enjoyed ,cheers.
