PS4 Lighting Technology Showcased in Stunning New Demo

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hinch said:

RazorDragon said:

Sorry, but that's not really impressive. Looks like Crysis(2007) with mods, which still looks awesome even 6 years after its release.

 

Sure, the demo is not that impressive when you compare it like that. Thats not the point, the tech demo is showing off real time dynamic lighting. It's to make game development easier - saving devs a lot of time from prebaking stuff.

We had Dynamic Lighting in games over a decade ago... It's hardly a new feature in games and it's especially prevelent in the PC space even with console ports because the PC has the rendering power.
In time the PS4 and Xbox 720 a few years after release will probably have games at only 720P with pre-baked lighting and shadows to save on resources, it's the nature of the consoles and trying to "squeeze" more power out of them for other tasks.

They should really be showing off things like some heavy compute shading, tessellation, Physics, that kind of thing.