GTX 1080 unveiled; 9 teraflops

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torok said:

sc94597 said:

This hasn't been true since the transition to the 8th generation. The PS4's performance is equivalent to GPU's with the same theoretical performance. Just compare an r9 270x or Nvidia 750TI with the PS4's performance. It has remained quite the same. The exception might be Sony exclusives, but those are a small percentage of total games. 

I wouldn't say that and even devs have already said that consoles usually pack more punch than a similar GPU on a regular PC. Thirdy party titles just aren't that much into extreme optimization and such, because it won't generate any kind of financial return. It's not like making a shooter that looks way better than CoD will make you magically outsell it, so why expend more money making a technical masterpiece?

First party studios don't have to worry that much with money since their titles aren't there just to sell well, but also to be technical showcases to make nice looking trailers to move hardware. Trying to make a showcase AND make money at the same time is risky. Crytek almost went down doing it and they are now focusing on F2P. Epic already said that one of the reasons why they sold Gears is because the kind of game they would have to make now would cost 100+ million and that was too much of a risk.

I would say that. On a GPU-bound game like The Witcher 3, the performance is equivalent between a 750ti and a PS4. On CPU-relevant games the performance is in favor of PC.

First parties have been mostly irrelevant since the 7th generation started.