| etking said: There is a strong need for better hardware because while PS1, PS2, and PS3 were state of the art and very powerful at release while the PS4 was already outdated with its slow but cheap APU design. The PS4 hardware is so weak that it even has to struggle with 1080p games with heavily downscaled graphics compared to PC. With VR (=2x1080p) and 4K (=4x1080p) gaming as the next big innovations in the industry, better hardware is required because both are impossible to render on a standard PS4. |
Ps4 hardware so weak? What handbook are all you guys following? Ps4 at launch was by no means weak.
Psvr doesn't need rendering at 1080p X2 so the Ps4 can render it's vr just fine.
Simplifyed, any struggling the Ps4 or xbone for that matter are having rendering anything this generation is purely on the deveopers. Many deveopers these days are so stuck using all Middleware tools and pre-purchased engines, their games are more like mods than games, then they just lazily compile out using preset setting for each console, and then scratch there heads in wonder while it runs horrible on whatever device vs the beast of a pc they developed on.
You can't just come up with whatever your heart desires and expect it to run on any hardware. You have to cater your design to the hardware your game is running on. There has always been sprite, polygon, texture or memory limitations, or cpu bottlenecks, a good developer works WITH these limitations.
It's the publishers (bean counters) forcing out lazy cross platform ports that hurt the most these days.
Sony built a "profitable" console finally which I think is a good thing for survival, and at a price vs power perspective, you still can't build a pc from scratch equal to the ps4, for the price of a ps4.
Anything other than 4k media output upgrade in a ps4k will destroy the console market next generation. All those fools who said console gaming was dying would be right, only because they did it to themselves. Worldwide public is not in a financial position to upgrade consoles on a 3 year cycle.
I thought the younger generation was all about environmental protection. Cycling hardware on such short and unnecessary timetable just means more garbage for the landfill.
