| cpg716 said: It will not be 2 ports for PS4 and PS4.5. I've seen this a few times. It's not developing for 2 different systems.. Its the same game with better optimizations for the PS4.5. Considering so many games are downgraded (optimized) to run better on the PS4 it would just allow developers to have a little better game on the PS4.5. And as of right now the Xbox Dev Kit mode is only for APPS.. We will not be seeing "games" for a long time, if EVER. |
Optimization is not the same as downgrading. Optimizing is converting or modifying whatever part of the game in a way that it works better with the console. Sometimes that actually means converting something to a more complex, larger format because even though it's more complex, it the system processes that format in a faster way than it does the other, simpler format. For example, it could also mean converting all of your audio to a larger, uncompressed format because uncompressing the audio on the fly is taking too much memory. But sometimes your game runs poorly because you've overshot your memory budget and in order to get that down you might need to simplify, reduce, or downsample assets. This "downgrading" can be a part of oprimization. it's only a part of optimization work, not the whole thing.
Every system has it's stengths and bottlenecks, and modifying your game to take advantage of those strengths and minimize the bottlenecks is what optimization is truly about.
