During the past few years, ray tracing seems to have become the El Dorado of the real-time 3D world. The rendering technique sparked a peak of interest when a young researcher by the name of Daniel Pohl devoted a research project to the technology in 2004.
The reason the general public took an interest in his work is largely because Pohl chose to focus on id Software's famous Quake III, Quake IV, and Quake Wars 3D shooter game franchise. The researcher got a lot of media coverage and gamers began dreaming of a bright future in which their favorite titles would be ray traced and devoid of rasterization.
Intel soon became aware of the buzz and spotted an ideal way to justify increasing the number of cores in its processors. The company quickly started its own research program and now never misses an opportunity to remind us that ray tracing is the future of real-time 3D games. But is it, really? What technical realities lie behind the marketing hype? What are the real advantages of ray tracing? Can we really expect it to replace rasterization? Tom's Hardware will try to provide some answers to those questions.
Growth driven by digital software and console hardware sales.
Probably down to the high cost of gaming. Controllers and racing wheels can cost as much as consoles.
TNS - Saudi anime and game publisher Manga Productions compares Japanese IPs to 'oil,' arguing that developers focus too much on Western markets.
Anyone believing that these pigs are their friends is in for a very big shock down the road. Those doing business with them should be told to go live in the middle east.
Something is wrong and the Americans don't care and the dislikes are like Jews and Muslim getting pissed
i find it very troublesome that they are meddling with gaming ips, buying stock etc.
they even bought some capcom stock.
Content creators are receiving Xbox Project Helix merchandise alongside a note from Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma.
Well they are doing what they can to revive the brand. They have a lot of work to do.
yep agree 100% ... and some more. The hype machine is warming up and the performance numbers sheet will be filled in no time to guarantee that the winner on paper is revealed way before the launch day ... BUT as we all know only 1st party games and brand idenity will declare the real winner. Only problem is the price tag needed to get into next gen ...
Next gen will be a massive failure for Microsoft and Sony, you could say it's already started. Game sales at an all-time low and the high cost of consoles and controllers, the PlayStation 5 Pro is the first indication on the pricing of next gen consoles and that's been a sales flop for Sony. Some people will say that people are paying eye watering prices for PCs, but that's an entirely different market, what I call OCD gaming. As I mentioned in another post, the PlayStation 5 Pro here sells for just under £800, which is just over $1000, games can top £75 ($100), including Switch 2 games. Some of us would like to see a single format, but that'll never happen. Microsoft and Sony would laugh at the idea of stepping off the gas pedal with the tech and do what Nintendo has done with the Switch 2. Three hybrid consoles fighting against each other, basically taking current tech and adding a few bells and whistles. Who's up for a PlayStation 6 for $999 and $99 games? Let me know in the comments.
The simple solution is dont buy what you cant afford. You dont have to move on just because the companies do. If people want better hardware and better games theyre gonna be more expensive. People need to be content with what they have.
You know a lot of those sales are dads and moms buying for their kids and teens. Consoles have alway been a reasonable price to a degree. But you start heading far north of $500, I don’t see as many parents buying for their kids or teens……will it still sell? Yes but will it sell a hundred million or more…..that’s the real question. Hopefully ram prices drop.
@Agent75 There is no need to lie to make your point. The ps5pro is selling as a percentage about as well as the ps4pro. The recent pssr2 update has actually improved its value. Your attempt to group the ps5 a console (that is about to cross 100 million sold and is by far Sony's most profitable generation) with the abject failure that is xbox is laughably stupid. Truth is Sony shouldn't even consider launching another console until 2029 at the earliest.
Everyone except you knows the pro is a profit machine that is why its expensive.
Ps6 will not be even close to it in price
What happens if ram prices remain high? Do you think Sony or MS would eat those costs? Depends on how much they would have to absorb.
:) Ray Tracing ftw!
My guess is why it hasn't happened yet is file size. Can't imagine objects of that detailed fitting onto a DVD en mass.
i thought rasterbating was when u blew up a picture into a bunch of pages to put it up on a wall.
http://www.248am.com/images...
Well. This article injured parts of my brain, but hell. Learn something new everyday, eh?
Basically with Ray tracing you eill notice differences in Say a Car racing game.
So a car has reflection but you won't see other cars in the reflection because that would require real time ray tracing and though it's possible you would probably get 4 frames per second on a 1080p game with a quad core processor (rough estimate.
But like that new Pool kings game that coming out on PSN if you look at the pool balls you see HDR lighting and it reflects the room on each ball but it cant reflect where the other balls are because it's not ray tracing the light source.
*My kind of easy way of explaining it.*