Cerny: Full hardware capabilities of PS4 may take 'three to four years' to be harnessed

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petalpusher said:

Unlike WiiU,

Because it's based on a derivative of a ten years old cpu architecture wich has been worked around in every way for many years. It's still a very close relative to the gamecube cpu with just more caches, cores and frequency. gpu is nothing new here, it's basically a "Xenos 7 years after" with very few enhancements after all this time. lack of main bandwidth is a step backward, even compared to current generation. It's basically what makes the multi platform titles struggling on this console when it should have been a formality.

Input bandwidth, raw shading power, and pixel output (fillrate) are the 3 pillars of rendering performance, WiiU doesn't specially shine in any of the main 3. It's still very close to PS360 levels, when not worse.

PS4 and X1 have highly asynchronous compute architecture, they are very gpu centric console with lots of potential waiting to be tapped in that particular field. They will be the new referent for the next 5 years or so.

Rubbish.
The Wii U's CPU architecture is vastly improved over it's older brothers.
For starters it's not just more caches, cores and frequency, it brings with it an OoO execution engine which vastly improves efficiency, new SIMD instructions, wider and faster caches and interconnects.
The difference however would be like comparing an Intel Atom (In Order CPU) to AMD's Brazos (Out of Order) at the same clock and cores. - Put it this way, Brazos makes Atom look pathetic when software doesn't take advantage of more than 2 threads.

The GPU however is vastly different too, it's capable of far more higher quality effects such as Tessellation, which coincedentally the Playstation 3 lacks and the Xbox 360 was very limited with.

It will take time for developers to work around the nuances of the hardware, to expect anything different is silly.
Is it on the same level as an Xbox One or Playstation 4? Hell to the no. It's more a middle step between the Xbox 360 and Xbox One.

Then again, if you are so worried about graphics and the hardware, you wouldn't be using a console at all anyway.