onionberry said:
no, but considering that ps4 and xbox one have 1.84 tf and 1.31 and those are an old architecture, not polaris, and considering that both consoles have mobile cpus it's not that hard for the switch to be on par or just a bit behind because Nvidia is using their new architecture with more efficiency. Also, 0 load times, thanks to cartridge and 0 game installation (thankfully!). And you can't expect a tablet with the power of a ps4 pro or a xbox one scorpio for an affordable price because that's a fantasy. |
You make a good point here, regarding load times and installation. These aren't things that we talk about very often when considering the technological greatness of games. That's probably because all current consoles, and most PCs suck in this regard.
These days, it is not uncommon to wait over one minute to get back to play after an in-game death. Similarly, it can take 2 minutes to load levels when starting a game. If you have one hour to game and it takes maybe three minutes from power on to actually playing in-game, you die a handful of times on a challenging level, then wait a couple minutes for the next level to load, you have likely spent 25% of your time just waiting for stuff to load. That sucks.
I recently added a hybrid drive to my Xbox One. I'd say it reduced load times by about 35%. In turn, this made a real increase in my enjoyment of some games. In the scenario above, I spend more like 15% of my time waiting to play. That's a nice improvement. But, when compared to the near-zero waiting with cartridge games, my wait times still suck.
I remember when I got Sega CD way back in the early 90's. There definitely were some big steps forward for gaming. But, the wait times took a massive step backward. I noticed it immediately. A couple of years later, the original PS brought terrible load times to all of the remaining console gamers. My father and I (he was an OG gamer, since the late 70s) used to joke about the ridiculousness of the waits. Like everyone else, we got used to it. But, when I play on my 3DS, I damn sure do notice the fact that I get a lot more game play in a given period of time.
tl;dr- It has been a long time since I've played good quality games, on my TV, without waiting forever to do it. I'm looking forward to getting back to that.
