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Michelasso on 24 September 2015
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walsufnir said:
Michelasso said:
Normchacho said:


Yeah,  the PS4 should support Vulkan. Or at least it could fairly easily it seems.

http://gamingbolt.com/ps4-should-support-vulkan-ps4s-api-not-completely-native-for-current-gen-yet-brad-wardell


I'm quite sure Sony won't support Vulkan on PS4 . For the simple reason that it doesn't need it. GNM, the close to the metal PS4 API, is at a much lower level. But nothing is going to stop Vulkan to make its own port on PS4 and XB1, if they wish so. So it may happen as a third party API.

Sony and MS could provide wrappers or compatibility layers for Vulkan. Native Vulkan is a different story as it would have access to the device like the corresponding current APIs which I doubt will happen.


Yeah, I meant something like that. Basically replacing (in the games) the higher level GNMX I suppose. I am not very skilled in graphical API. I just wanted to say that from what I've read Sony isn't interested on making Vulkan official for PS4.