When will we get 1080P as a standard?

[MikeB]

rocketpig said:

MikeB said:

TheBigFatJ said:

MikeB said:

ssj12 said:
next gen for consoles, 2 generations ago for pc

Nah, it's not standard for all PC games at all. There are really no real standards on the PC at all. Try to run Crysis in an equivalent of 1080p on the PC on hardware from 2 generations ago.

There are lots of standards on the PC.

To be fair, a midrange card from two generations ago on the PC is exactly what the PS3 is using. It's very slow and shitty compared to a PC (the PS3, I mean is slow and shitty compared to a PC), but that's expected as the PS3 is a video game toy and no one expects it to be competitive with real computers.

 

What?

Within a couple of years PS3 games will run circles around what most currently sold PCs are able to achieve by that time. Cell and Blu-Ray are going to make a long term difference.

You honestly believe that in a few years the PS3 will outperform Crysis rigs sold today?

Wow. Sony really must be developing for 4D because given the specs on the PS3 right now, that kind of performance would have to involve wormholes and time manipulation, both of which will still probably require more than 512 megs of RAM.

 

I already addressed this many times, the PS3 from a technical perspective provides great technological benefits as well as shortcomings compared to modern gaming PCs. These advantages relate to Blu-Ray disc (7.1 lossless audio and graphics data streaming) and the Cell processor. Disadvantages relate to non-upgradeable system memory, GPU performance and the fact that PC games are usually entirely stored onto the harddrive.

Other long term PS3 related advantages is a fully standard basic hardware configuration with probably a decade of shelf space, which means developers will exploit and optimise for every bit of juice they can pump out of the hardware in course of time. Secondly for multi-theaded games one CPU core on a Windows box will usually be entirely dedicated to the host OS due to Windows being very inefficient draining CPU cycles (and system memory, which makes its system RAM advantage far less significant than total numbers would suggest).