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IHateLife on 27 July 2013
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Viper1 said:
IHateLife said:
Viper1 said:
brendude13 said:


In all honesty, the development difference between DX 11/DX 11 equivelant and one API lower is so minute that using that as a means to rule out potential development is a clear case of PR bullshit.  It's a backhanded way of saying no to Wii U without giving a truly valid reason.

I think you mean DX10.1/DX11

Actually, no.   I meant as I stated.  DX 11 and DX 11 equivalent.  DX 11 equivalent would be OpenGL 4.0.

However, the Wii U most likely uses modified OpenGL 3.3 to 4.1 (it's uncertain) but it is known it has DX 11 equivalent features in tesselation and compute shaders among others.


They most likely wrote their renderer based on OpenGL 3.3 and looked at 4.0 to add modified features since it's well, open to look at. It would be nice if they can provide more information on the tessellator though, that's really the main difference in standards other than a few enhancements with DX11 compared to DX10.1 level hardware.