Slimebeast on 26 June 2013
| blublibla said: You always forget that hardware power is nothing compared to how it's used. For exemple, the real-time demo Quantic Dream or Guerilla showcased look way better graphically than any Battlefield Ultrasetting or Crysis mod. In fact, the futur is not in hardware anymore but in Engines : it's like the Mhz or Ghz race of the PC or the megapixels race of the Camera few years ago; it's ridiculous and doesn't mean anything. The last impressive results we've seen in gaming weren't because of the awfully slowly evolving (and expensive) graphic cards but because of new engines like Frostbyte 2, CrysEngine, Unreal4 etc...and that's why lots of big publishers lie Square-Enix or Kojima are doing their own engine. |
But the engines are designed typically with console hardware in mind.
UnrealEngine 3 lasted the whole current generation, and Id tech 5 too pretty much. Frostbite 2 was upgraded just in time for when development of next gen (PS4, Xbone) games started. Same with FoxEngine. The first games on it will be MGS5.
Now that new consoles are soon released we won't see any major upgrades to the popular game engines in a long while.
