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curl-6 on 15 July 2019
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DonFerrari said:
curl-6 said:

Switch ports from PS4/Xbone do tend to retain most of the 8th gen rendering techniques though, whereas PS3/360 versions of crossgen games almost universally axed all that stuff.

But yeah, RAM followed by GPU were the biggest differences from PS3/360 to PS4/Xbone/Switch, whereas it's looking like the biggest gain going to Scarlet and PS5 could be CPU.

That's not quite an apples to oranges comparison though; Witcher 2 wasn't open world for one thing.

RDR1 and GTA V are though. And you understood the point. Most if not all technical limitations are surpaseable if you cut down enough on the game. And as pemalite said, the biggest plus Switch have that WiiU didn't for the ports is that the architeture is more modern and closer to PS4/X1 so the cuts are less heavy than if ported to last gen.

Agreed, all I meant was that both the more modern tech and the much larger RAM help, rather than it being primarily one or the other.

Pemalite said:

Absolutely massive, probably the single largest leap in CPU capability in generations. - If there is only one criticism that I can give... Is that Sony/Microsoft doesn't go for more than 1 CCX grouping of cores... (But I had been saying that was the path they would take for years anyway due to cost reasons.)

Would have been nice to have 12-16 CPU cores for platform longevity, we just aren't there yet.

It does mean that the 10th gen consoles aren't likely to see the same kind of leap in CPU capability as well though, so the 9th gen is gearing up to be rather interesting.

Probably a bit difficult to get a Jaguar to Zen2 comparison. - But years ago I did a comparison and calculated that 8x Jaguar cores is roughly equivalent to a dual-core Core i3 at the time, operating at around 3ghz.
So taking any Sandy/Ivy-Bridge Dual Core and pitting it against Zen 2 is as accurate as you are probably going to get it at this stage unless I can source some hardware. (Working on it!)

Interesting stuff. Not sure if it's going to happen, it'll depend on devs, but I'd love to see a lot more simulation and interactivity in next gen games, that's kinda what I wanted from this gen but didn't really get.