Colby lack of bandwidth hurt 360. But the lesser GPU seemed capable of keeping pace. All indications are Microsoft is getting the most out of their architecture with X and that is because they simulated the architecture before making any chips. So if building dx12 into the architecture doesn't make a difference I'm not sure why they would go through the trouble of adding it once fabrication was about to start. This fear of Microsoft doing something right is said. Get over it. This is ...
I think we get back to the $399 price point. But we will move to Zen. But that time we will be swing 7nm parts. If rumors are true that Ryzen hits over 80% on their yields the chips will be cheap. I think we might even get a low powered Threadripper. I'd love to see a 16 core CPU and 12-15 teraflop GPU. Threadripper is currently believed to be made at a cost of $120-40 per chip at 14nm. AMD's quarterly reports a few months after launch will tell us if that's true. If profits are w...
In ten years when he sells his collection for ten times what he paid people will wish it was them.
Ok, replace controllers with shoes and get back to me. Not being sexist but people have their "thing". It might be pumps or sneakers. I don't understand that. I don't understand alcohol cabinets. My mother buys so many towels and wash clothes that she could change them every day for months. I definitely don't get that. So ridiculous is usually relative.
Omni but we are also reaching the limits of what is needed to make a difference visually. We will see real time photo realism in a generation or two. What then? The changes needed to push gaming forward will be architectural. More efficiency in the OS and the CPU and GPU. More efficient parts offset the need for brute force advances in flops and IPC. The move to APUs and unified memory are the things that will make a difference instead of more flops. AIs built into chips will bring better eff...
We have yet to see the benefits of building dx12 into the hardware. This first generation of X games will most likely not use that feature to the fullest. If it does increase draw calls and drastically reduces CPU overhead as advertised the CPU on X won't be as much of a bottleneck as some think. One of the key features is eliminating the need for the CPU to even request certain things of the GPU. If the number of requests needed is significant, we will see a lot more 60fps games on X.
This site is the new go to for worthless click bait articles. I bet it's one paragraph of rehashed nonsense. Another group of opportunist clowns looking to exploit the fanboys of gaming.
The point of consoles is a cheaper option for quality gaming without need for any particular expertise in selecting parts. It's allowing experts to design and choose your parts, package it in a small self contained unit and subsidize it for mass consumption.
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Rain I believe all the talk of spinning Xbox off was clueless analyst who actually believed Xbox was losing money. Or analyst manipulating Microsoft's stock price for profit. Ballmer committed 2 billion dollars to Xbox just before leaving. One billion for TV after spending 100s of thousands acquiring top entertainment executives. And the other billion earmarked for games. That was aside from the hundreds of millions they spend on R & D for Xbox.
Also Microsoft has b...
Woolly it was discussed by market analysts and Sony fanboys. It was based on ignorance. For analyst it was also on purpose with some. It was the best example of why you don't bet in the stock market. If you know how console manufacturing works you knew Microsoft was making a profit back as far as 2008. Every analyst should have known for sure. But even a year ago the talk lingered saying Xbox was a drain on the company.
Damn, Frosty. That was down right fanboyish.
The improvements made with these refreshes will lead to overkill next generation if the power isn't used for something other than visuals though. Once they switch to better CPUs and next generation GPUs, even if that turns out to be something along the lines of Vega, we'll get some ridiculous consoles. In three years we'll definitely get Zen and we should get ten to fifteen teraflops on the GPU. That's going to b...
Bradders then why are they not already doing it on PC? The reality is bandwidth is an issue within CPUs and GPUs. It always has been. Microsoft used a simulation before making the parts to find and eliminate the bandwidth choke points. Hopefully everyone will be using these simulations and we start getting the full power of our electronics.
The fact that the inclusion of women and blacks is believed to be inauthentic when they were in fact present makes it clear we haven't had authenticity in the past. If we had, there wouldn't be a discussion now.
I love how Sony fans keep holding onto to additional conferences to make up for that mediocrity that was E3. Additional conferences are Sony's secret sauce.
Yeah, I'd have to say given Microsoft's and Sony's shows I'm not sure what E3 level means. If he means mediocre then Gamescom will be exactly like E3 this year.
The fact that so many didn't even know there were black and female soldiers means maybe it needs to be pushed. I don't understand "men" afraid to not be the center of attention for a couple of minutes.
The Harlem Hellfighters were one of the most decorated units in the war. They received a parade and metals just like white soldiers. President Theodore Roosevelt call Henry Johnson, a Hellfighter, one of the five bravest fighters in WWI. Yet you have to ar...
I don't understand why it matters. It's not about right or wrong it's more like wtf. I mean, we've played as aliens in many games for years and no one has ever complained as far as I can recall. But a black guy or worse, a woman. How screwed up is humanity. I've played white characters for years even though I'm black and still would never give it a second thought. If people really want to believe skin color doesn't define us we need to act like it. And if you do le...
And the funniest thing is the name Hellfighters didn't come from the allies or black soldiers. The name came from the Germans. They Harlem Hellfighters earned that name by being some of the bravest, most fearsome warriors in the war. Just like the Tuskegee airmen in WWII, they became feared on the battlefield.
These early games that aren't hitting 60 fps might be a result of pushing them out for the launch window. One of the best features on X is the DX12 being hardware based. If it really does eliminate a huge percentage of the CPU overhead the post launch window games should hit 60/fps because given they have to be built to work on Xbox One S at at least 30fps Scorpio should be able to hit 60. I expect games coming next summer on to all hit 60fps.
We've seen more than a few people sell entire collections for profit in any number of products. Limited edition, boxed and unused controllers would be no different. As many have said, people collect many things. The guy or girl with the Star Wars action figures still in their boxes was probably called an idiot in the 70s. Now they can sell them for thousands. I used to collect comics. I had the first four part Wolverine series from the 80s. I paid 75 cents each. The series was $1,200 a co...