The custom software might be a decompression solution. Ryzen would do wonders for that. I can also imagine a boost mode like the switch has know, where devs can clock up the CPU during short bursts to speed up decompression and loading.
Yea, things like that are just hilarious. It's obviously talent.
They were the pilot game for Stadia (AC: Odyssey). This is no surprise.A little bit off topic but Ubisoft announced today that they are going to "ramp up our capabilities for the upcoming generation of consoles", "enter into new gaming genres, segments, & business models, create new IPs & new experiences", and finally "capture the streaming & cloud gaming opportunities"
Ubi will be all over Stadia i guess.
https://www.imgtec.com/powervr-ray-...g&hootPostID=0318b67c9e0e511dea25f13083b17c75
Imagination/PowerR was the first to launch GPU hybrid rasterizing/raytracing they have tons of patent and it seems they have more step acceleration than RTX and now they license their technology.
http://cdn2.imgtec.com/whitepapers/powervr/ray-tracing/powervr-shining-a-light-on-ray-tracing.pdf
Well again as far as the rumours are going it seems there will be custom solutions from one or either company but it depends how much this "secret sauce" will cost each of them. As for development capabilities I don't think it would do much. Devs for a start would have to target the lowest common denominator which is going to be PC gamers who will still be using conventional HDD or slower SSD than "secret sauce" SSD tech, and they aren't going to make a game which won't run well on this hardware because it's designed for some super-fast custom console hardware. Secondly, if last gen and this gen are anything to go by most devs won't give a jack about this special sauce. Just look at the CELL where devs never bothered to spend time optimizing for it or the half floats in the PRO as another example. We have no guarantees devs will suddenly spend time optimizing for this hardware when history has shown they never did so before.
I hope it's something like StoreMI and not really an expensive custom solution.
What I meant was the loading times are so fast already (like literally a few seconds in recent games or even unnoticeable in older games like Skyrim:SE with mods) and sacrificing hardware in this chase for a few second faster loading time sounds silly to me. You said so yourself that NVMe is much faster and I'll take your word for that. If my SATA SSD is already insanely fast (it's an 850 EVO) then these consoles will have absolutely no problems if they're using the faster NVMe SSD so why would they need to go even further with more custom hardware? Everything comes at a cost my man. We both know this.
As I said before, both are rumoured to be using NVMe SSD from literally every rumour from both sides you can find that even mentions storage.
I have 3 externals, two of which are faster than the internal storage and one that's bigger than any internal can be. I have lost no degrees of freedom, though I give credit that Sony allowed externals later in the gen. That's this gen.
I think it will be solderd to the ps5. Just like on apple laptops. Those ssds are superfast.
When it comes to the Cell devs didn't know how to optimise for it because it's vastly different than any other system on the market lol. Take it this way, one dev team had to took hours to find out how to even turn it on at first.
At least we can say that the licensing extends beyond architecture and goes to patents as well. Apple is basically using their GPU architecture without fear of reprisal, so it seems unlikely they'd be the main customer here. It wouldn't be surprising if this was a sign of AMD adopting it.
The big question is how much of their allocated budget will this tech take up. I'm all for fast storage solutions (hence why I bought an SSD myself) but I would prefer the money I'd be spending on the console (at lets say $500) is going towards the absolute best CPU/GPU possible with those taking priority rather than, for example, CU count being reduced as a trade-off since the companies want super-fast SSD tech rather than using standard NVMe tech. You can't realistically push for the best visuals and RT whilst simultaneously limiting yourself from the best GPU hardware within your budget because your spending money on super-fast storage over a more capable GPU for RT.
Without a doubt the first party devs will do wonders with the consoles and extract the best from them. The real deal is in the multiplats though and if devs are willing to take advantage of this tech if it really is special sauce tier that no other platform has.
Im betting it's 12 for Lockhart, 24 for Anaconda. This means they can share the same chip architecture with only downgrades in certain areas for Lockhart.
Indeed. Spidersman is streaming so much from the hard drive, that they had to use spinning disc tricks (like using duplicates to minimise seeking) to speed it up. Then they had to remove a lot of the duplicates to fit on a BD again. It's a great talk, I thoroughly reccomend it.
Of course it will.. They'll all affect eachothers sales because they're competitors.
Didn't Brad sams say that Lockhart has half gpu and half ram of anaconda ?
More RAM would be great but high-speed SSD can offset some of that though. There's definitely less need to hold as much as you can in memory when you can just find/read what you need significantly faster than on a HDD.
A competitor that offers an extremely similar product at a lower price point is going to affect the sales of your product.
Yeah it'll be interesting to see how game development progresses with the new hardware, however the fact of the reality is 3rd party developers won't put in the same work as Naughty Dog or 343i. That's why I'm really sceptical when it comes to exclusive secret sauce technology. The questions we have to ask are, will 3rd party developers take advantage of this tech? Is it easy to take advantage of? If not, is the cost that went into this tech worth it for the end user?
A $200 price difference would be massive. This isn't about saying competitive. Of course Sony will be competitive and will most likely sell more units than Xbox.
MS' marketing for Lock & Ana will juts have to emphasise how important CPU & SSD (+ whatever secret sauce they use) are. Also for the first 2 years there will be plenty of cross gen games anyways.
I had missed that info, but, well, in that case, 12 GB of GDDR6 (or half Anaconda ram) for Lockhart would be definitly bad for next gen multiplat games. They'll always be restrained by limited memory, until the end of the gen, like Jaguar CPUs was the constant bottleneck of this generation.
