| Vena said: If that's your metric than basically no one is innovative. Technology is largely itterative. Their technology is new for the system for which it was custom built, no such solution existed or they didn't use a contemporary one that could be brute forced (largely due to efficiency reasons, likely). They developed a specialized, new engine with their own home-baked solutions to problems. That is original. Is it "new" to the overall world? No, but then by boiling down development/programming to such a base, is to do a great disservice to the work that goes into said, and we'd effectively be left in a world with nothing all that fascinating. Don't worry, Shin'en won't drive those AAAs and their "innovation" out of business. You needn't worry about giving them a little credit for their work. |
Technology is largely iterative but in the field of real time computer graphics we still have long ways to go ...
It's customized, I'll grant you that much but don't pass it off as a "new" solution when it's been implemented before and I don't mean to undermine Shin'en's achievements when there's lots of hardwork to be had in their case ...
Shin'en does earn the credits it deserves but you underestimate how many talented graphics programmers there are on the other side ...
