It's all rumors and myths at this point (at least as far as I've seen, but admittedly I haven't been following it extremely closely), but it's possible that nextgen consoles will require program installations. Last I remember seeing, they will not, but that could certainly have changed.Is that still the case?
This is the first time the consoles are considerably weaker than the pc's at launch, 3 or 4 years down the line the difference is going to be really noticeable this time around i think. And considering that devs lately are making more multiplatform games that would normally not even consider the pc is encouraging for me so. Graphics while not be all and end all plays a major part in some gamers minds. Why buy a game on console when the *much* superior version would come to pc's? I think it would make better games on a technical level be possible for pc's where it wasnt before.
I bet that's the most recent statement from CDprojekt. Sounds like them.PCs are no longer perceived as a platform of choice to develop specifically a game.
Well the picture was from a presentation showing that at least the gap in performance is narrowing, so PC ports of console games should be better than they were. Add that to the fact the architecture is now much more similar as well and PC ports should be even more viable. However "exclusives" will remain a problem as manufacturers go for anti-competitive behaviour rather than market expanding behaviour.I think graphics fans are really going to go for the pc gaming, what do you guys think?
The console world exists on itself. The PC world could disappear the console world would not care. The PC world is irrelevant.
But let's say you have a PS3 game where you have all game assets 8 GB in the shared GDDR5 memory, and GPU / CPU sharing the required calculations in an optimal way. Using the extra bit and write-back options sony has added as well as integrated sound and compression units. I am sure that such a optimized PS3 game is going to be able to chunk out a more impressive visual experiance than that maxed NVIDIA PC.