| Munkeh111 said: Yes, I understand overclocking, I am well aware that my 670 basically performs as a 680 due to the out of the box overclock put on it by Asus. I am also aware of patches that claim to "improve performace by 30%." If you actually look at the power of the consoles versus what they produce against the output of a pc, there is a drastic difference, which is why PC games don't look that much better than console games, see the Witcher 2. I fully believe that the games made by Naughty Dog and SCE Santa Monica are going to look as good as anything on PC |
Optimization does play its part but it's not something mystical. It's not going to make the Wii U anywhere near as powerful as the PS4. It's not going to make the PS4 as powerful as a PC with a high end card.
With current consoles, a lot of devs just scale back the resolution of textures, pixels (sub HD is much less than half of 1080p), lock it at 30 frames and hope you don't get horrible performance drops. In the sense of optimization, it just looks like they're drastically reducing the load by lowering the quality to make it playable. I can crank up Crysis to ultra/1080p and it'll look beautiful yet I get 5 to 7 frames per second. Performance is a huge factor as well.
They did an awesome job with Witcher 2. They basically redid the game, art style and all to make it fit and for it to still look and perform well.
The PS4 will be great for everyone whether people like Sony or not. It's using a familiar architecture, off shelf parts and it's quite the upgrade from the PS3. Sony did good.
