| kain_kusanagi said: The PS4 isn't going to out "power" even current gaming pcs. But because it's a closed system and devs can optimize games for it's hardware the games will look awesome. PC games have to be made to run on low end systems, high end systems and everything in-between. It's rare for a game to look the best if it was also designed to run on a PC from 5-8 years ago. It has been done, Crysis still looks great, but it's rare. What's interesting about the next gen and how PCs will be effected is that most gaming engines have become multiplatform and highly scalable. 3rd party devs are going to be making less and less exclusive games. That means we are going to see even more games that look identical on PS4 and Nextbox as well as PC. 1st party PS4 and Nextbox games will take advantage of their system's strengths, but PC devs will be forced to continue to support older hardware out of fear of cutting out customers with less powerfully machines. Time will tell if scalability will let high end PCs beat consoles next gen or if old PC hardware will continue to hold back graphics to the lowest common denominator. |
this! thank you a post finally that made sense. It doesnt matter how much raw power one system has, its about how much access does a developer has to that power. TBH honest if people would have just used linux, and developer used linux as a game choice of platform, the graphic capability of PC would have been miles ahead of what is today. (Ray tracing, Specular reflection, Radiosity, Unbiased rendering methods) rather than just having these features emulated on a loop we would have had them in real time.
The problem with current PC hardware is windows environment, which doesn't allow low level access to GPU and its video memory and windows 8 is even worst. Unlike game consoles, which gives u low level access to the entire system without any over head to worry about. I think its MS strategy with a closed windows 8 on pc to push the developers away from PC community to Next xbox which i think will have game developer friendly windows 8.
So looking at current windows and 8, its safe to say ps4 and next xbox will have better graphics for years to come. No doubt on paper the $700 system will be powerful than PS4 but it will only be limited by its OS and different hardware configuration. In simple word, a console is an F1 car, and PC lets say is Buggati veyron, which one will win!
