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walsufnir on 10 November 2016
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DonFerrari said:
walsufnir said:

Well, first of all, Xboxes always had a *variant* of DX - it always was in large compatible but in crucial parts gave more power to the devs while not breaking the usual and well-known development environment.

Second, think for a bit: If it was true that you can't optimize on Xbox, what does that tell you about untapped power on the 360? The system would've been even more powerful than it ever was, only crippled by an API and still managed to outdo the PS3 on numerous games. Do you actually believe that?

PC optimization is a different thing of course but DX12 gives developers way more control than they ever had before, just like Vulkan now also does. Do you think that MS and the OpenGL group invent new APIs just for marketing reasons?

And the question why console if PC can also optimize: Do you think the only reason why consoles exist is because PC games are not optimized because of their "not to metal"-APIs?

 

Wasulfunir you realize it's uncompatible to say something like a middleware is easier to use and close to metal right? The abstraction from DirectX already puts one layer and make it a little less efficient than not having DX

? Every API is an abstraction layer. No matter if you call it DX, GNM, GNMX or Vulkan so either you say that every console has this disadvantage or no console has that.