Nintendo fanboy says nintendo will win. Not without a well developed dedicated online service, quality third party titles and more appeal to the core gamer. Not for me. By launching first they have also given away their hardware and concept strategy to their competitors allowing then time to also adjust their next machines to directly assault Wii U. A lot of wii' success was that there was nothing else on the market and the response and acceptance of it by the rivals was sluggish, whereas...
Well this illustrates the tight tight memory constraints on console. Too big a save, maybe only a dozen or so more megabytes trying to load into RAM crushes performance.
It is said to be difficult to patch, but maybe Bethesda will have to seriously consider downgrading some areas graphically. Talk has been made about restructuring the engine which would be complex, but the simplest way would be to reduce the memory load to allow for bigger saves and that means.......cutting...
Bethesda have issued a new patch. Everyone that bought it on PS3 gets a soldering iron, a 512mb RAM chip and instructions how to bodge your own repair.
Nice. Now all we need to know is how massive is the performance bit with these textures. 2048 x 2048 textures everywhere can be crushing for memory requirements and minimum framerates as if Skyrim wasnt well enough optimised before.
Its pretty cack cos its DX9 only, perfomance is kinda rubbish on high end cards due to a lack of DX11 render path optimisations that could help
Syncing identical graphics processors inside a console would be pretty easy and stop microstutter. As vulcanproject said microstutter is a problem that has unique circumstances on a PC for why it exists. Such things as vastly different motherboards, memory, hardware and software components make it hard to eliminate microstutter totally on PC. It has improved a lot since the early days of SLI/Xfire tho!
On a closed set designed machine where everyone has the same hardware an...
PC is NOT just console gaming with better graphics. That statement was just a piss poor attempt at taking a pop at PC. You are now oversimplifying this and saying its all the same. What you mean to say then is PC gaming is.....gaming like console gaming is gaming? We know this. So if you didn't mean PC only has console type games (as you now claim, and thus you are not missing anything different on PC) then you are just being captain obvious....duuhhh. Why don't you just go ahead and ...
You do realise you are talking crap DragonKnight don't you?
Unique games? I never said consoles don't have unique games. I just pointed out you as much as claimed PC didn't, by saying PC gaming is just console gaming with better graphics. This is of course, utter BS.
'Its a fact that consoles can do everything a PC can do.' Paraphrased, but what you said.
This is well......a staggering claim. Delusional much? A conso...
"You want to know what PC gaming is? It's paying twice as much as a console just so you can have better graphics and that's pretty much it"
If this isn't trolling then what is. PC sure has better visuals than console, but it also has a bunch of unique games too very much worth playing. Arrogance and major ignorance is someone saying PC is only console games with better visuals.
Even if you only play multis, then PC is usually the def...
I never imagined Sony would just throw in an 8800 chip, but they sure changed plans to incorporate RSX mid development.
I also never suggest they should have squeezed an 8800GTX in there or anything, just a chip based on their newer unified architecture. When you make a new architecture you don't just design it and knock it out within a few months, you have the plans on the board years beforehand, but at the very least 18 months.
Ati managed it. I mea...
Yeah it was delayed, but even if it hit its release target it would have been out months and months after 360 had launched. Fact is it came out a year later though in the end.
RSX was eventually downgraded even further from its original specs. When it was touted as 550mhz core some analysis suggested that Xenos would still hold the edge despite only running 500mhz because it has a more modern architecture. This proved to be even truer as it became clear RSX was tuned downwa...
@ Kingnick....i have to agree with a lot of what you said. You put it very bluntly and risk getting hit up badly with disagrees and vote downs but your comment is not inflammatory in that it holds a fair amount of truth.
You didn't pull your punches, i give you kudos for that!
A large part of PS3's game rendering hardware is not ideal for games. Indeed, using CELL to supplement graphics rendering is a poor imbalance of a system, and rather defeats...
From what i seen even games lead on PS3 often come out as good as, but still often better on 360! Dark souls, vanquish, Crysis 2, Castlevania, dead space, homefront, burnout paradise. These were lead on PS3. a bunch of them actually came out better on 360 but they were at least equals.
You can cite a few very isolated cases but i know there is a lot more that favour 360. how is it that games lead on Ps3 usually turn out fine ported to 360 or very close. LA noire was lead on p...
You dont get his points do you oner? lol His point was that ps3 lost games and support from devs because it is hard to develop for. It gained with stuff like uc2 but that would be a good game no matter what system it turned out on. If it was on an easy to dev for system it would still be great. Plus then maybe all the other multi games on that kinda system wouldnt lose compared to 360 ones.
You were banging on like ps3 design had no drawbacks and it only ever did good for the...
An old athlon x2 and a G80 8800GTS inside Ps3 hmmm interestin. This would pulverise Ps3.
Sometimes i wonder why console makers dont just buy stuff off the shelf. I know its cost and rights to make it. Microsoft did it with xbox and it worked for power but failed because of the cost and contracts they had entered into and messed up.
Surely by the time you have blown all that wad on developing a new machine and its special processors it wouldnt cost as much to...
Gah, nvidia lost the 360 contract and now they have lost the next gen playstation one too i bet
Nvidia already snuck ahead of AMD in the beta driver battle :-) maybe this will give nvidia owners a little bit more
Japanese gamers just prefer japanese consoles and developed games. It could have been the greatest game ever and it wouldn't sell as well as most PS3 or wii titles.
Call it cultural bias maybe, but i just believe Microsoft don't 'get' japanese gamers or the culture and what they want. Call it xenophobia but maybe the japanese just prefer to support their own economy and brands too. This isn't a bad thing.
If anything it is american/western...
Why would you run the PC version on medium with 8 x AA in 1080p?
If you could do 8 x AA on Medium you would set it to high/very high with no/2 x AA. Overall the game would look a lot prettier.
Looks like the PC version on Medium/720p. You can do that with a 7900GT/8600. You can do high on a 9600GT.
Thats pretty much what i expected.
Sure there are always more kids and more families, but Nintendo should be targeting the audience it currently holds as much as another generation of youngsters.
I thought this was blindingly obvious my point when i referenced SNES and then playstation eras? Playstation targeted the SNES and Genesis era gamers and as a result won pretty much all of them while Nintendo still tried to make just a newer machine without addressing the fact most of their audience had aged, grown ...