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Better luck next time, consoles
« on: June 29, 2005, 09:53:22 PM »
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Re: Better luck next time, consoles
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2005, 12:48:13 AM »
the link dosen't work for me.  But if it's a /. thing then I really don't care to read it.
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Re: Better luck next time, consoles
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2005, 05:48:30 AM »
Damn, links gone. It was an analysis of the hardware capabilities of the next gen consoles. Basically - the GPU's are good, but the CPU's are worse than the current pc ones, and will slow the consoles down a great deal.
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Re: Better luck next time, consoles
« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2005, 06:00:36 AM »
Eh, I don't believe it.  The Cell possessor is faster then anything that Intel or AMD can make and is already being used to make super computers.

Again this just shows Slash-dot's inbred hatred of things that don't follow into their narrow views of how things should be.
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Re: Better luck next time, consoles
« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2005, 07:44:08 AM »
Actually, the stats show consoles capable of pushing amazing numbers of polygons abnd amazing graphics, but also having crippled the ability to do interesting AI.

Because, y'know, the people with all the money are casual gamers, and they'll buy anything that looks good.

Casual Gamers are destroying gaming.
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Re: Better luck next time, consoles
« Reply #5 on: June 30, 2005, 10:22:29 AM »
Spriggan, they have good theoretical abilities, but the articles writers spoke to developers who said that in reality they are horribly designed, with loads of bottlenecks and low processing reality.
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Re: Better luck next time, consoles
« Reply #6 on: June 30, 2005, 10:30:58 AM »
I'm going to wait till I actaully see things in action.

Just becasue it's /.ed dosen't mean it's accurate.
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Re: Better luck next time, consoles
« Reply #7 on: June 30, 2005, 10:52:05 AM »
Here's an article talking about the one Entropy linked

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050629-5054.html?63304&96583
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Re: Better luck next time, consoles
« Reply #8 on: June 30, 2005, 11:04:29 AM »
wow. What's he's saying about splitting code into threads is a much more technical way of what I've been saying for years: that programmers need to work on making code better rather than just waiting for the hard drive and the processors and the memory to get bigger and faster.
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Re: Better luck next time, consoles
« Reply #9 on: June 30, 2005, 11:07:34 AM »
Thats what I got from it too.

Can't be a bad thing in the long run.
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Re: Better luck next time, consoles
« Reply #10 on: July 05, 2005, 07:41:31 AM »
Guess some people aren't having any problems with the XBox 306's chip

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2005/07/01/pgr3_screenshots

You can tell the cars are rendered but my word those backgrounds are flawless.
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Re: Better luck next time, consoles
« Reply #11 on: July 22, 2005, 04:55:39 PM »
wow the transition of the buildings is incredible, the one shot of the back of a guys head leaves a lot to be desired though.
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