Would you rather have spent more $ for more powerful 8th gen consoles?

[HoloDust]

Pemalite said:

HoloDust said:

Not sure about CDPR and Ubi, but from what I remember, folks at Epic were saying before PS4/XBO launched that they need 2.5TFLOPS consoles (which is what fully operational PS4 GPU@ 1GHz is rated at - but that would mean higher price of PS4)...since neither of them had enough juice, they put SVOGI on hold for UE4 at the time.

As for weakest gen, I'd argue that 4th gen was pretty weak...or at least very late to catch up with computers. Genesis launched in '89 in NA, SNES in '91, and both computers that had similar specs (Amiga and Atari ST) launched in 1985.

Increasing the PS4's GPU clock to 1Ghz might not have cost a single cent extra.

They would've need better cooling and probably slightly better PSU - but that's not really what I meant - those 2 disabled CUs are disabled for better yields, hence lower price, if they went with fully enabled GPU (basically 7870 GHz edition) they would have Epic's 2.5TFLOPS GPU, but yields would be worse and price would be higher.