| Bodhesatva said: And if you have a 5k computer, someone else can buy a 10k computer. If you buy a 10k computer, some crazy billionare can buy a business-quality server, and so forth. Until we have a computer/console that can run a Grand Theft Auto type game where every meandering person looks something like this: http://www.theasiatech.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/max_edwin_rendered_face_song_hye_kyo.jpg And it can render these people at 100+ FPS with dozens if not hundreds of them on the screen simultaneously, then there is room for more growth. Let's just agree that the Playstation 3 is very powerful -- graphically speaking -- for its time, and leave it at that. |
And if you have a 5k computer, someone else can buy a 10k computer. If you buy a 10k computer, some crazy billionare can buy a business-quality server, and so forth.
Then you get to rendering farms, but yeah...
Until we have a computer/console that can run a Grand Theft Auto type game where every meandering person looks something like this:
http://www.theasiatech.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/max_edwin_rendered_face_song_hye_kyo.jpg
That is an impressive render, but even then (for me) the eyes are a dead giveaway. There's just no soul in them eyes...
And it can render these people at 100+ FPS with dozens if not hundreds of them on the screen simultaneously, then there is room for more growth.
Not just hundreds of them - thousands of them! RTS, anyone? 
Let's just agree that the Playstation 3 is very powerful -- graphically speaking -- for its time, and leave it at that.
I think everyone can agree on that.
