The GC's main problem was it's memory, otherwise it's chipset's architecture was widely ingenious in comparison the Xbox’s.
A friend and I were looking at the more recent consoles and realized the Wii is essentially the GC but backwards. (Dealing with how it’s chips are used in relation to memory.)
Actually I don’t recall which game but the most polys the Xbox ever pushed out before it was canned is about 16 million at 60fps or 30… I can’t remember, like I said this was a while ago.
The GC did 20 million at 60 fps I believe, I’m almost certain that was the case, but the developer claimed going over would kill the Xbox, I would imagine he meant frame rate drop.
Technically the GC with more memory could from how it was described do more than 20 million, but their wasn’t enough space to buffer the textures and that was a major problem Factor 5 couldn’t get around.
I’d imagine considering the model of the PowerPC on the Wii being more inclined on raw power and design and it’s intricate usage of drms could mean the Wii could handle 40~60 million polygons at 60 fps.
The issue would deal with how to use the shaders and mapping… but I’d figure that 60 million polys would be Wii games in 2010/2011 with proper coloring and scaling.
The difference in 2011 to current (which isn’t a fair comparison so don’t take it seriously) PS3 titles in the caliber of Rainbow 6 or Oblivion would be negligible, depending again heavily on the mapping.
For the record I believe PS3 is currently able to push 200 million polygons in as you said real time.
As for Epic ~ their not dumb but they are retarded, some things are better said in other ways - not politically correct but just another way. That way he could cover his arse - but then again it might not need covering.
PC isn't the money so he moved to console which if and when that turns out not to be the money he'll find something else. He's smart because he has to make money, so he bashes the system regardless of personal view points, honestly a CEO with time to play games is rare.
At the same time hes retarded because all he's doing is yelling at the 'core' gamer group. "Don't go over there, bad things are over there, stay here please!!! No! don't even look over their, it's nothing special."
Which isn't going out of the scope that he's already targeting, thus his mainstream is shrinking.
Regardless of who he's permiting to use the UE3 it wont matter if they don't have enough people buying them.
Unless UE3 is the end all engine, which I VERY VERY HIGHLY DOUBT, the PS3 can look much much better than that.
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