I had a long rant written but in the end I decided just to post this: http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?card1=679&card2=675
It compares the HD7970 GHz Edition and the HD7770, the equivalent of which will appear in XO. You have to literally be unable to comprehend numbers to think, after seeing this, that the XO can ever approach the performance of the HD7970 GHz Ed., available since, oh, the summer of last year.
Get a PS4 and PC to get best of all worlds. Cheap games for PC all the time and console exclusives and otherwise must-plays for PS4. It's a win-win-win-win.
The same could be said of sticking to one brand of console and that is far more rampant.I've never really understood the argument that says only PC over all, you cut yourself off from too much.
I could not have a happy gaming life if there's a God of War, Gears or Uncharted that I couldn't play.
Killzone runs at 30 fps, just at the beginning. Generations usually START with good performance, then dwindle as developers pull out so many code to the metal "tricks" that the games start playing like Crysis 3 and The Last of Us.
PS4 + PC is the best combo if one can afford it next gen
I was shocked how few shits SSM gave about performance in God of War Ascension. It was a damn shame because I enjoyed the game a lot more than 3.Killzone runs at 30 fps, just at the beginning of the generation. Generations usually START with good performance (MGS2), then dwindle as developers pull out so many code to the metal "tricks" to get better back-of-the-box looks that the games start playing like Crysis 3 and The Last of Us (or, for the sake of parallelism, MGS3).
There is something great to be said for the efficiency that a fixed configuration allows, however it is vastly exaggerated in discussions like these.
I'm really not disagreeing with your point. I'm saying that folks have no idea how tight something like a PS4 is built. We're already seeing some amazing games and we haven't even scratched any surface of the potential.
I do agree with your points on paper though.
PS4 + PC is the best combo if one can afford it next gen
Get a PS4 and PC to get best of all worlds. Cheap games for PC all the time and console exclusives and otherwise must-plays for PS4. It's a win-win-win-win.
I've never really understood the argument that says only PC over all, you cut yourself off from too much.
I could not have a happy gaming life if there's a God of War, Gears or Uncharted that I couldn't play.
PS2 has no bearing on PS4 though. Hindsight is always 20/20 but it's rather preemptive to call it like that at this time.Killzone runs at 30 fps, just at the beginning of the generation. Generations usually START with good performance (MGS2), then dwindle as developers pull out so many code to the metal "tricks" to get better back-of-the-box looks that the games start playing like Crysis 3 and The Last of Us (or, for the sake of parallelism, MGS3).
Hell, a lot of these late-gen games render at lower resolutions just to squeeze more effects into the game, giving you shitty IQ on your actual television on top of the crap performance that miraculously doesn't show up in the downsampled bullshots and dev kit videos you see before you buy the game.
There is something great to be said for the efficiency that a fixed configuration allows, however it is vastly exaggerated in discussions like these.
Well, you can think of this like that - up until now all the AAA games are basically multiplats, which means they have to run on either or both of the last gen consoles. That sets some pretty harsh limitations from day 1, where you pretty much have to omit all game design and graphics features that will bring the little boxes to single digit fps.
What you are left with is a rather cut-down game and engine, and then to make it look good at trade shows / on PC you have to upgrade some of the assets a bit like textures, add some more post-processing effects etc, which is basically only superficial polish to the underlying handicapped game, and in general leave it up to the PC modding community to bring your game up to the acceptable level of quality (see GTA IV, Skyrim, Fallout 3, Dark Souls 2 etc).
So then you get to develop for something that is pretty much equal to the average gaming PC of 2012! Suddenly whole new vistas of game design and graphics features open up!
So that's what you're seeing happen And if you take those same games and make them multiplat, the PC version will be epic straight out of the box, as the code is so, so similar to PC, but the PC now has even more power so the game scales up extremely well. 1080p @ 30 fps becomes 1080p @ 60 fps with 16xFXAA etc. Everybody wins and is happy and gets to finally play games with AAA graphics that exhibit more complex level design than just a tunnel with some turns from point A to point B.
I think it'd be a terrible idea to build a new PC right now. Wait a few years in before you do that. You're going to be spending three times the money and your BF4 might not even look any better than Killzone.
You got us, we buy games just to make our libraries look pretty.Pfft, people paying on PC? It's about how many games you have on your Steam account. You can play games on consoles
130 games in backlog in 5 months '._.
At one point in my life sitting down with Gears 1 for a couple hours was about as good as gaming could possibly be... that said, your list of third person action games, two of which are cover shooters that play similarly, makes me a little sad. The games that make you really want to spend extra to get a console should be better and more creative than the state of these three franchises.
The same could be said of sticking to one brand of console and that is far more rampant.
it's not hard, some people (like me) just don't give a shit about games like that
sony-exclusive indie stuff looks better but 1-2 $15 games aren't enough to sell me on a console
You got us, we buy games just to make our libraries look pretty.that's partly true
PS4 + PC is the best combo if one can afford it next gen
Opinable. Specs wise of course but not everyone are available to spend their time to find the optimal configuration.
Opinable. Specs wise of course but not everyone are available to spend their time to find the optimal configuration.