AMD Sea Islands aka 8000 series GPUs will be featured in next generation consoles

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KBG29 said:
Graphics have a long way to go, and display technology is still no where close to reaching it's end point. As display technology advances, and goes beyond flat screens, 3d and higher resolution, more and more power will be needed.

Even looking at the current graphics, there is a long way to go to a living world. Giving life, depth, and weight to everything in the world is still a long way off. Hideo Kojima said during the onset of this generation that games needed to move away from the movie set, to become a real world. No more walls with nothing behind them and doors that lead to nowhere. This takes more power, more storage, and faster development techniques.

So even if we were to leave graphics right were they are from a visual stand point, we still need a lot more power to add depth to the worlds, weight to every object, and life to all living things.

Finally, I want to remind everyone that in all previous gens we have seen a minimum of an 8x increase over the previous gen. PS1 to PS2 and PS2 to PS3 both saw more than 10X increases in RAM, Geometry, Processing power, and many other aspects. This was done in 6 years time. Now we are looking at a generation that is going to last at least 7 years, if not 8 years. If anything we should be expecting greater increases than ever (12 to 14x) not the smallest increases of all time.

I agree with that, but the most important problem is that, besides the power and storage to do that, developers would also need a lot of people and time to make that happen. That would make development costs to go through the roof and, therefore, games being a lot more expensive.

DieAppleDie said:
so how this compares to the one on the WiiU? 6760e or something.....:P
just curiosity

As Andrespetmonkey said, the difference would be huge. But it won't happen.