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lucidium on 05 March 2014
PigPen said:
I'm glad Nintendo went with the IBM PowerPC, which I have reasons. Now I don't know how true it is, but I have read a article somewhere saying the PS4 is almost maxed out.

Developers were saying that about games a few years into the 360 and ps3 life cycles, mostly as a pr move.

you can write a crude program to do nothing but create random strings constantly, it will rape the cpu and gpu compute, throw in some dense shader and it will be using up the entire systems resources, thus, "maxing it out" but what you see on screen will be neigh on worthless.

theres a difference between maxing out hardware, and making the most of hardware EFFICIENTLY.



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walsufnir on 05 March 2014
lucidium said:

theres a difference between maxing out hardware, and making the most of hardware EFFICIENTLY.


There is some truth in there. Almost every game uses the hardware by 100%, that's for sure. But *how* you do this is the real art in game-coding.



PigPen on 05 March 2014
lucidium said:
PigPen said:
I'm glad Nintendo went with the IBM PowerPC, which I have reasons. Now I don't know how true it is, but I have read a article somewhere saying the PS4 is almost maxed out.

Developers were saying that about games a few years into the 360 and ps3 life cycles, mostly as a pr move.

you can write a crude program to do nothing but create random strings constantly, it will rape the cpu and gpu compute, throw in some dense shader and it will be using up the entire systems resources, thus, "maxing it out" but what you see on screen will be neigh on worthless.

theres a difference between maxing out hardware, and making the most of hardware EFFICIENTLY.

Something tells me you don't know what you're talking about (it's a hunch).  I will say this though, we all know the Wii U looks weak on paper compared to the XBOne & PS4.  I read that the way the Wii U was designed it punches above its weight.  Shin'en says the Wii U is several generations ahead of the X360 & PS3.  Retro says the Wii U is a powerhouse and developers shouldn't overlook it.  Sony loyalist is quick to defend the PS4  which I would think twice about given Sony's track record.  It will be real funny if the Wii U is more powerful, because devs are not aloud to speak on it.



Ucell on 05 March 2014
PigPen said:
lucidium said:
PigPen said:
I'm glad Nintendo went with the IBM PowerPC, which I have reasons. Now I don't know how true it is, but I have read a article somewhere saying the PS4 is almost maxed out.

Developers were saying that about games a few years into the 360 and ps3 life cycles, mostly as a pr move.

you can write a crude program to do nothing but create random strings constantly, it will rape the cpu and gpu compute, throw in some dense shader and it will be using up the entire systems resources, thus, "maxing it out" but what you see on screen will be neigh on worthless.

theres a difference between maxing out hardware, and making the most of hardware EFFICIENTLY.

Something tells me you don't know what you're talking about (it's a hunch).  I will say this though, we all know the Wii U looks weak on paper compared to the XBOne & PS4.  I read that the way the Wii U was designed it punches above its weight.  Shin'en says the Wii U is several generations ahead of the X360 & PS3.  Retro says the Wii U is a powerhouse and developers shouldn't overlook it.  Sony loyalist is quick to defend the PS4  which I would think twice about given Sony's track record.  It will be real funny if the Wii U is more powerful, because devs are not aloud to speak on it.


Keep dreaming. The Wii U can barely handle last-gen ports. It doesn't even have a game which looks better than 2013's PS3 exclusives.



lucidium on 05 March 2014
PigPen said:
lucidium said:
PigPen said:
I'm glad Nintendo went with the IBM PowerPC, which I have reasons. Now I don't know how true it is, but I have read a article somewhere saying the PS4 is almost maxed out.

Developers were saying that about games a few years into the 360 and ps3 life cycles, mostly as a pr move.

you can write a crude program to do nothing but create random strings constantly, it will rape the cpu and gpu compute, throw in some dense shader and it will be using up the entire systems resources, thus, "maxing it out" but what you see on screen will be neigh on worthless.

theres a difference between maxing out hardware, and making the most of hardware EFFICIENTLY.

Something tells me you don't know what you're talking about (it's a hunch).

Yeah, uh. No.

Are you genuinely trying to claim that my statement about there being a difference between using up all of a systems resources and using a system BETTER, is somehow wrong?

I'm not even going to address your "hunch" there's really no need to and all it would result in is an argument that ends with you eating Crow.



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Nintentacle on 05 March 2014

The power is good enough. Look at Mario Kart 8, X, and Sonic Boom!



MegaDrive08 on 05 March 2014

Lol let these Sony gamers have there screen resolutions and frames per second because that's all they have, and it doesn't take away the fact Playstation is a boring brand and they've been playing the same way since 1995, Sony will never have the essence of been a video games company, there just an imitation, your playing a Playstation 1 with better graphics, that's what you have there



 

stevechan on 05 March 2014

Ninty fans are just funny when they're trying to troll for Wii U's capabilities...
admit it,my friend,Wii U is just so pale comparing to PS4 and XBOX One.
it can't even handle last gen ports well.




Ucell on 05 March 2014
MegaDrive08 said:
Lol let these Sony gamers have there screen resolutions and frames per second because that's all they have, and it doesn't take away the fact Playstation is a boring brand and they've been playing the same way since 1995, Sony will never have the essence of been video games company, there just an imitation, your playing a Playstation 1 with better graphics, that's what you have there


Ignorance is bliss. But you've reached a new height of ignorance. Congrats.



PigPen on 05 March 2014
stevechan said:
Ninty fans are just funny when they're trying to troll for Wii U's capabilities...
admit it,my friend,Wii U is just so pale comparing to PS4 and XBOX One.
it can't even handle last gen ports well.


But it can handle Bayonetta 2.