| Darth Tigris said: Saw that post on neowin when it first came up and wondered if it'd find it's way here ... It's funny (and kinda sad) to see so many less-informed ones completely dismiss his claims. I know that some of you desperately don't want this to happen for reasons that are completely immature and ridiculous, but only time will tell HOW much of a difference DX12 makes on PC/tablet, WP and XBO games. Looking at the difference between most early 360 and PS3 games to how they are now I can easily see a massive improvement that could possibly be called a 100% improvement. Seeing that what's being purported here is something beyond that typical 'getting to know the console' process that every console has, the improvements could be more significant. Is it really too much to ask for some optimism about the future of gaming from those that claim to be its biggest fans? |
I dont think you understand the reason why a 100% improvement would be ridiculous. That would mean that Microsofts current API based on DX11 was utter shit all along that they can possibly manage a twice as fast performance on a closed system like a console. Which should be way easier to efficently programm for. Consoles always got super cheap drawcalls which is what DX12 is being praised for on PC where it infact can be a big improvment. But the Xbox one api cant have been that bad in the first place a 100% power improvment on a console would mean that Microsoft intentionally had to make their console API like shit for no reason just so the next iteration can give it that much of an advantage. And there is still the Physical Powergap the PS4 always will have whatever happens this will never result in Xbox one having equal/better graphics than PS4 which is what a increase of the current Xbox one performance by two would lead to. It has nothing to do with pessimism I dont own any of the current gen consoles. And I won`t buy one any time soon but the thought of Direct X which is unnecessarily bloated for consoles because its made to run on different hardware would somehow magically increase the performance of the Hardware by 100% (twice the GPU power) is batshit insane.
