Why PS4 won't be cutting edge, and neither will Xbox3 - or Why Nintendo might win next gen

[HoloDust]

DanneSandin said:

HoloDust said:

@bold - really doubt that, that's just Epic selling their engine. Most of cost and design philosophy for HD transition has already been done in this gen, next-gen will simply have more power and even more cost-effective tools (real-time everything, as demonstrated in UE4 demo videos).

For example, look at modded PC Skyrim screenshots, with mods that are done by community, and compare that to PS360 shots:

http://kotaku.com/5961994/what-skyrim-looks-like-when-youre-running-100-mods-at-once

Quite impressive, and not that much more costly (I'm sure Bethesda could've done it themself, if they wanted, but since they don;t care for PC anymore....).

You think that Wii U will be able to play games looking like that? =(

To be honest, I very much doubt it, with some of those mods (like grass) even higher end PCs have difficulties, so that stuff will be something that will probably push even NextBox and PS4 to limits. But, some downgraded version of it, probably yes, vanilla Skyrim runs pretty decent on 6570 cards.