| nnodley said: I think gameplay will start to feel different and better on both PS4/720 and PC after the next couple years as more and more capabilites become known from hardware. |
I think there won't be the same slow progression we've seen with PS3 and 360. The PS4 is a much better known architecture and many coders will be able to work on it basically at their technical best from the get go.
What I really hope is that gameplay progresses not as hardware depths are explored and architecture monstrosities tamed, but simply as developers become unfettered by past limitations and truly work on some good, original ideas. That requires the developers ideas and gameplay design capabilities to evolve though, instead of their technical skills.
Take Journey: I love the game, but I have read that thatgamecompany had some really bad technical problems and basically went off-budget and over time. They had to resort to Santa Monica studios for help and were finally able to deliver what they wanted to create, but with a severe financial setback.
Next gen, I don't really care about KZ-SF being smoother and on a higher res than KZ 2 and 3. I don't think that dragon fire looking really good will make for a substantially better Demon's Souls.
But I would love if smaller companies like thatgamecompany that rely on their ideas could give us the games they imagined without becoming enslaved to the tech - and earn more than a couple dollars for their work.
PS: re the OP, no, I think it's really absurd to state what's stated in the title. Technical specs don't translate directly to user experience. Multipliers for memory amount mean very little. TFlops by themselves mean very little. All that has meaning is what experiences those stats will enable. And the experiences have generally been stale for a while, spec increase notwithstanding. But of course, it's a middleware developer speaking, and they are the worst (*cough* Crytek *cough*)
