Rumour: PS4 Receiving Massive Performance Boost From Team ICE [UPDATED}

[Zekkyou]

BraLoD said:

Zekkyou said:

rolltide101x said:
Not this again..... Software can not boost hardware performance by any truly meaningful level.

That's not true at all. Improved drivers and more efficient development tools are what cause the huge leap we see within each generation. They don't jump from Resistance 1 to TLOU by pulling power out of their asses  

I'd certainly agree though that if this is true he's heavily exaggerating it, similarly to what people have been doing with dx12. We aren't going to see huge jumps this early in the gen, it's a slow process that takes years.

I don't think it will take that much time to we start seeing the improvements in this gen like last gen.
PS3 was a very trick piece of hardware to work with, so they took too long to get interested in it and solve the problems so they could start getting the true potential of it, but this gen the consoles are basically PC's that will not take that long to devs to start doing better things with it, they already have experience with hardware like the consoles have.
By november 2015 we should already being seeing the improvements on the games, then it will slow down after it and will improve slowly until the end.

I agree with that at least. We likely aren't going to see game changing (heh heh) jumps as quickly as Thuway is implying, but things should certainly move along much faster than previously.

It will be interesting to see what things look like by the end of the gen, once both the X1 and PS4 have been "maxed out".