again designing a game from scratch for a 14TF machine is different than designing a game for a 14 Tf machine with the 4 Tf machine in mind as base. you keep talking about a game scaled with 4 Tf machine in mind to scale down the game(ie minimum requirement spec in PC ).if the minimum required spec is 14 Tf rather than 4 tf the game engines differ drastically. and who said it has to be 4k on 14 TF machine? MS is in no position to force such things on 3rd parties.even sony doesn't dare to do that being the market leader .
exactly bottlenecks are not just GPu power. as mentioned due to better memory bus and higher memory X can manage to push more than 40% pixels due to bottle neck being removed . so lockhart should have no bottle necks in order to ensure the game can be scaled down to run at lower res. but all this means the devs has to consider that the engine needs to run on 4Tf machine as well as the 14 Tf anacando albeit at different resolution.
that is ture but minimum spec still exist even for all those games. and no company wants games run on low seting on their new hardware .we are of course talking hypothetically . lockhafrt will be 7 to 8 Tf and will have non of these issues. even at 4 Tf if the memory bus width, CPU and all are top tier it can punch way higher above its weight
it almost died few months back when a leak said lockhart is 4 tf . then yesterday , richard from digital foundry mentioned in a video that based on his sources 4tf is pretty much the plan for lockhart.
u dont need a team for that . coupl of employees and a month is all you need
that is true .they both need to have SSD as that changes open world game designs due to speed the world is available at your disposal
If Sony do it well, they should not have to do that much work. Some of the games that just lock framerate and resolution without CBR will be a huge boost.
they just released a 1.3 tf 6 years old console with no UHD drive for 249$. yea lockhart is 399 most probably
true but it wont be 4Tf.marketing for it will be difficult. 7 to 8 TF .book it
A new Digital Foundry video.
what if PS5 version has different assets than PS4 version? not just resolution bump but better lighting ,better shadows ,better effects,etc...its a bit confusing.
That usually does not require assets, that's simple settings within the game, which can be patched. Unlike PC games, console games usually don't give access to performance settings like shadows, effects etc, so it would require settings to be changed to make the use of better things.
That's probably gonna be the situation with late gen games, but games like Bloodborne, PS3 games? I doubt it's gonna be a simple patch. I think of remasters with lots of options, 4K60, ray traced, maybe even VR support.
True, we may need a bigger patch then usual to accommodate all these features, although for the first year of the consoles life-cycle while this gens still selling like hot cakes, maybe thats what the cross gens games are going to be? just 4K/60 versions of PS4 games to give devs time to make a proper next gen games utilising its Zen2 cpu and Navi gpu in say year 2 or 3? with all those next gen features that you mentioned.
If only it was as easy as just having a cheaper option, it's not like it's the case this gen too.
Well that's pretty much what Stadia is pushing for. The only difference with your suggestion is that people have a base system at home and the rest is cloud based.
thats what they promised with x1 and crackdown 3 was the game that was promoting this.
Awww it got locked. It would have been interesting to see who was right and who was wrong when the specs are revealed.
Agreed, picture say E3 2020, Shawn Layden comes on stage, gives a speech about PS5 to 4 backwards compatibility and shows on the screen behind him that more than 100 PS4 games are now PS5 enhanced, the crowd will go wild!
