IBM Kittyhawk is what should scare you, lad.
I agree with almost all said in this post, except the importance of hardware: graphene batteries and memory, high-k dielectrics and topological insulators that allow to break the 11nm barrier; may be terms ignored by the average joe, yet they will allow for a bigger than expected jump in everything from graphics to consumption, reduced costs, portability, etc.It's definitely not slowing down, the big jump is yet to come.
Expect to be blown away by the 8th generation if So...
Fool!, still to this day, there's one piece in PS2 (GSX's eDRAM ,48GB/S 2560 bits bus) superior to the fastest part in any 7th gen console or consumer PC!
Also, a more powerful CPU?? I fail to see how a measly Pentium 3 @733Mhz is better for gaming than a RISC R5900 128 Bits @300Mhz with several floating point units.
Besides Xbox was like a huge chunk of plastic with the sole purpose of running emulators, PS2 is just like a thin book.
The onl...
I can't believe there's so many naysayers.
OLED displays are the slimmests, have stunning contrast, and can be easily curved or folded.They don't get hot, and have lowest TDP ever on a screen.Now there's more than enough processing power for headtracking in consoles, this was not possible in a small form factor in the 90's.
I say the time for this is near, and it will be way, WAY cooler than past implementations.Just wait and see.
The fact that they released XIII in 360 in the first place is the proof that square enix's main goal is to get to the widest userbase to reduce financial risks derived of the high production costs of their games.Therefore, Vs XIII will be just a late PS3 game.Until the PS4 remaster or sequel I guess...
edit: Ah, and yes to a final fantasy VII remake.Programmed by someone else of course...lol
ideal thing would be, if they took the original assets in those games and rebuild them for a real 1080 output,FF VII, or the oddworld series could be really beautiful.
Problem is, most of those old companies are dismantled, and said rework is too hard and costly for the marketing mofos that represent gaming nowadays.
That totally cracked me up lol
Nvidia was better than Ati for most of the last decade, but 2008 onward Ati has been providing same performance for a lesser thermal envelope (which means less wattage, more reliability).Currently some argue that Nvidia has the better firmware support, it also has a proprietary set of Physics instructions for games called PhysX which some argue is better than current middleware solutions, though few games support it, some examples are Mirror's Edge and Batman Arkham Asylum. Also, the 400 ...
AMD's low power APU solution in their new SoC is barely better than ion 2 get out of here...
and PS3 can do Physx, but very few games actually have hardware support for it, the performance hit is too high.Most PS3 games use Havok middleware or proprietary EDGE tools/Phyreengine physics.
You make sense, but I disagree in a couple of things.
Most recent, taxing, modern effects on PS3 are done and sent by the SPU's to the GPU, which is a mere rasterizer which outputs a lot of the work already done.hence,the most crucial element to keep retrocompatibility is tEh cell, some would say proof is, with an inferior GPU PS3 can output the same if not better graphics than a 360 which has a better GPU.
Oh, and the jump in specs will seem moderate at first, bu...
I shit on this "ultimate proof".
OK, I'm sorry but it's time for me to be an ass and burst some bubbles.
Take a look at some benchmarks, SLI does NOT provide much benefits apart from being a commercial stunt for improving sales with teens with the need to overcompensate as the main commercial target.It will destroy a motherboard easily though, it would generate lots of noise, heat, requires space, and a better PSU...it's the worst idea for a console.(i.e. In the end, one 5850 is a much better, du...
"Zelda HD demo (...)cant be done on ps3 or 360"
"wiiu uses openGL thats comparable to dx11/12" "360/ps3 are dx9 type hardware"
AARGH
Sorry to say, you are 9 Y.O. or a Nintendo fanboy, probably all of that combined.In any case, boy are you wrong... you don't know what you're talking about.
for starters, PS3 uses a custom, advanced implementation of OpenGL.And 360 is *capable* of hardware tesselatio...
dear thisiswiiu.com, you can't measure graphical quality nor sheer horsepower by just looking at clock speed: you are retarded.Severely.
Deeply.
In the head.
I'm against piracy, but, Sony going against preowned? 60% of my games are new, 40% pre-owned. I buy full price the games I love, because I want the developer to get my money.(Demon's souls, Uncharted 2, LBP)
I buy second hand when I'm just curious but do not agree with the price/quality ratio (GTA4, Dragon age, COD)
That was my power as an individual, to vote with my wallet, to give form to the industry.Now they are becoming rancid like TV and pop music, a...
I was kinda stoned when I wrote that.
Nevertheless, the EU store does not make sense either Sitris.They upload things, then they dissapear, they cost more than anywhere else, codes not working, scarcity of content, poor support, broken dates, games we never get, bad translations, no translations at all, or waiting because someone wants to translate "start & options" to hindi. How can you condone that?
I just laugh instead of crying.
Sony don't set the prices...huh? regardless of who's to blame, probably third parties, it's not just Red Faction, let me tell you how I feel towards the EU store, it's like this:
I went the other day to a Starbucks they only had expresso, shit flavoured beans, turd-on-a-stick, gravel, dust,cat hemorrhoids in brine, soccer shirts and hannah montana songs.
Then they try to charge me 7.99 for one expresso, "Hey I just work here, I just sell it, blame...
"I'm the type of person who has money and spends it like a mad man"
I'm reasonably poor, would you invite me to eat at McDonalds or something if I ever go to birmingham?/jk lol
EU ps store updates are disgraceful, and third parties are also constantly giving the finger to EU for some reason.
There seems to be a retarded fratboy with a PhD in economics and marketing in charge.It's only skins/cars/sports DLC, GH/RB songs and overpriced mainure all the time.What a shame.
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