John Carmack: 360 and PS3 were 'far from tapped out'

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d21lewis said:

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d21lewis said:
I think there was more we could have gotten out of PS3/360 and MGSV will show this. The problem is that it would probably cost average studios way to much to reach the HD Twin's full potential. They could probably go Super Saiyan II if they were pushed hard enough.

But we had studios who could afford to sink massive amounts of time, money, manpower, resources, and some of the most talented developers in the world into pushing them, and did so. No other consoles in history have had as much invested in pushing their chipset as PS3 and 360.

Games like Beyond 2 souls, God of War Ascension, Halo 4, and The Last of Us squeezed them to their breaking point.

The Wii could run Crysis on max settings but nobody made the effort.

Side note: I don't know why people think The Last of Us looks good.  It doesn't, aside from character models.

It does show the PS3's age, but on a technical level its lighting and animation are very, very advanced for 2006 hardware. And it should be; one of the most technically talented devs on earth made it with 3 prior games' worth of experience with the hardware.