Viper1 said:
If you use the same assets, run the game on an engine designed for high CPU speed and are new the the architecture, it doesn't matter if the new console is more powerful, the port will have problems. That's just the nature of hardware and game engines designed around a specific spec. I wish you guys would start to understand this. Console to console is not like PC GPU to PC GPU where having a more powerful GPU is generally enough to get better performance. Notice how a game on a AMD CPU with a higher clock speed can actually run a game slower than the same system with a slower clocked Intel CPU? Or how different game engines run very differently on an AMD GPU or an nVidia GPU. Different component designs treat different rendering effects, game code and game engines differently. Concluding that one console is less powerful than another because it runs a game with less performance over the other is disengenious to the facets that explain why. I mean didn't you yourself just say the PS3 was more powerful but certain facets existed that made the X360 versions superior? Why give the benefit of the doubt to the PS3 but not the Wii U? |
I admit I dont know technical hardware/programming stuff, so you got me there. But using a bit of logic, when you port a game, you are not supposed to have ported the engine to the console before, so that it take benefits of the assets at hand, having the actual game can run nicely? (I think it should work that way, I guess) For example if a current gen game like AC3, is developed current gen for the 360 (more graphics memory), then the engine needs to be ported to make use of more CPU (Cell in the PS3), and so on, right?? Games looked badly at first on the PS3, because 3rd party developers, did not knew or did not wanted to learn how to properly use the Cell.
I think that optimization would not be necesary if other console is so much more powerful that the port would just be done with raw power, for example cross-generational games PS2/PS360 games, and upcoming PS360/PS4-720 titles.
The bolded text would mean that the 3 consoles are in the same "power range", and I though that was not the case, considering some nintendo supporters posts, and the fact that we dont have any official specs yet (although there have been analysis of the hardware showing it is not a big leap from current gen). So if in reality the case is that the WiiU is more powerfull than the PS3, as it is more powerfull than the 360; then yeah it is expected to have this kind of stuff; of ported games not looking good on the WiiU; because developers already have much more experience on the other consoles. Which in the end means that it is not ubber-powerful as some people thought. So it is more powerful, but not by much.
