By the way, it may not look like it, but I honestly found the main blog post most interesting and well written.
I was replying to this whole trend of establishing some kind of fanboy safeguard around the concept of the Wii U not being defined as "Next gen" partially, which is getting quite old, unnerving and bleh.
edit@parkerpeters^: look man, the SNES had a clear edge over the Megadrive, colors, sound, sprites... the Megadrive CPU was faster. I wa... #11.2
Who cares about the label and status of the Wii U being next gen or not? Why is this detail of capital importance?
With all due respect, I don't care what you own either. Why the need to tell me and the world? Need to convince somebody about your objectivity and neutrality?
My butt-mad might be showing, but it's baboons hipnotized by Nintendo and Apple the ones throwing stones from glass houses.
I listen to your words, yet you haven&#... #11.1.1
Wii U is an Insult with a huge gothic "I", no matter how verbosely you try and spin it, since it uses vastly outdated technology of yore, hence the "WiiU is not next-gen" argument, which is a perfectly valid way to remark the reality of its innards.
While is also perfectly valid -as an opinionated piece- that you go and decide to play the Wii U white knight role, it's not really a matter of protocol or denomination.
Who cares!, be done with reusing all the assets created for the spineless mess that are XIII games, didn't work the first two times, stop it. You've destroyed the franchise. #3
Nonsense, premium games and BEST developers tend to shy away from the weakest hardware, not from the cheapest one.
MOST developers though, third parties, flock to the best selling hardware so they can maximize their return -and the best selling hardware is the cheapest, not the most powerful-. #5.1.1
I remember they taking out retro and linux, but I have a PS2 and a PC anyway. I like being able to download PS2 games that otherwise I would have to buy on ebay, like Godhand.
PS Store has to step up the game though, EU content is taking ages to be worthwhile, we just got hold of Castlevania SOTN some weeks ago, can you believe this s***? #1.6.1
"Danlord The Infotainer (as he likes to be called) is a multitalented, creative person who is gifted in so many ways and full of energy. Amongst his many gifts he likes to express himself in the songs he writes, the software program he designs and the books he writes: Be it a short romance story, a children's story, a How-to book, an instructional material, an article about how something is done, a Science Fiction... #67
You can't code a game exclusively for i7's and top GPU's, in the PC market you have to cater to the lowest common denominator so people with an i3 and a GTX 550 can play. Hence, why most games are not optimized, it's just not cost effective.
With fixed hardware, a lot more performance can be unleashed.
Avatar is WAY overrated, we -definitely- will see those kind of real time graphics. Quote me on this, it's just months away. #12.1.2
Crytek seems to inhabit a parallel dimension where
1) They know if hardware is 99% maxed out, regardless of what other developers have done. They are the best developers there are, no one can "max" specs over them.
2) In the Crytek Dimension, RAM is not at an all time low price, it's expensive. #13
@taquito.Obviously not gonna happen until DDR4 and hexacore are the norm, PS3 is too exotic of a platform. An order of magnitude(being conservative) is needed to emulate other platforms.(x10)
Expect a functional emulator with performance superior to PS3 in a mainstream PC by q4 2014 at the soonest, there are only alpha versions now. #1.1.6
Using 8Gb RAM with such a weak processor does not make much sense. That CPU is extremely limited, it's in the Intel Atom range, which commercially is paired with 1 or 2 Gb. 4Gb CL6 would be OK.
8 Gb is for editing video, high quality gaming and stuff; you can't do such tasks fluently -in any scenario- with that range of processors anyway. #8
I was replying to this whole trend of establishing some kind of fanboy safeguard around the concept of the Wii U not being defined as "Next gen" partially, which is getting quite old, unnerving and bleh.
edit@parkerpeters^: look man, the SNES had a clear edge over the Megadrive, colors, sound, sprites... the Megadrive CPU was faster. I wa... #11.2
With all due respect, I don't care what you own either. Why the need to tell me and the world? Need to convince somebody about your objectivity and neutrality?
My butt-mad might be showing, but it's baboons hipnotized by Nintendo and Apple the ones throwing stones from glass houses.
I listen to your words, yet you haven&#... #11.1.1
While is also perfectly valid -as an opinionated piece- that you go and decide to play the Wii U white knight role, it's not really a matter of protocol or denomination.
Why would anyone ca... #11
"If you don't want him, that is fine. The Nintendo fanbase and the classic SEGA fanbase will be having fun without you."
LOL
No, seriously, Sonic is dead, sorry about that.
http://www.youtube.com/watc... #12.2
Nintendo should've done that, though. #8.2.1
MOST developers though, third parties, flock to the best selling hardware so they can maximize their return -and the best selling hardware is the cheapest, not the most powerful-. #5.1.1
(what's a gigabit bus?) #1.2.8
If Valve are going to have their own hardware, they can do better than that #19
All PS3s are compatible with 99% of PS1 library.
I remember they taking out retro and linux, but I have a PS2 and a PC anyway.
I like being able to download PS2 games that otherwise I would have to buy on ebay, like Godhand.
PS Store has to step up the game though, EU content is taking ages to be worthwhile, we just got hold of Castlevania SOTN some weeks ago, can you believe this s***? #1.6.1
"Danlord The Infotainer (as he likes to be called) is a multitalented, creative person who is gifted in so many ways and full of energy. Amongst his many gifts he likes to express himself in the songs he writes, the software program he designs and the books he writes: Be it a short romance story, a children's story, a How-to book, an instructional material, an article about how something is done, a Science Fiction... #67
With fixed hardware, a lot more performance can be unleashed.
Avatar is WAY overrated, we -definitely- will see those kind of real time graphics. Quote me on this, it's just months away. #12.1.2
1) They know if hardware is 99% maxed out, regardless of what other developers have done. They are the best developers there are, no one can "max" specs over them.
2) In the Crytek Dimension, RAM is not at an all time low price, it's expensive. #13
An order of magnitude(being conservative) is needed to emulate other platforms.(x10)
Expect a functional emulator with performance superior to PS3 in a mainstream PC by q4 2014 at the soonest, there are only alpha versions now. #1.1.6
That CPU is extremely limited, it's in the Intel Atom range, which commercially is paired with 1 or 2 Gb. 4Gb CL6 would be OK.
8 Gb is for editing video, high quality gaming and stuff; you can't do such tasks fluently -in any scenario- with that range of processors anyway. #8