It depends on the usecase but in this example to a certain extend yes.
It did not go unnoticed. Xbox players had already dealt with it so it wasn't so surprising or even unwelcome for them.
"They" likely isn't Sony but the developer protecting their relationship with Sony.
Yes. Just a feeling I guess. Last time a guy mentioned his tweeter account got closed by his company but now Sony even didn't ask the guy to take it down
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/rumor-control-son-of-dreamcast-and-xbox-next-specs/1100-6095043/
This shows the kind of confusion we still face today. The block diagram refers to Xenon making you think that's the system or platform codename (a la Prospero, Orbis, Durango, Ananconda, etc.), but Xenon is the officially recognized name for the PPC CPU in the Xbox 360.I say the best console spec leak we ever got was for Xenon (Xbox 360) In April 2004.
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/rumor-control-son-of-dreamcast-and-xbox-next-specs/1100-6095043/
Ah, but it was authentic at that time. The final Xbox 360 CPU was 300 MHz slower (3.2 GHz vs the 3.5 GHz) but the RAM was doubled from 256 to 512 MB.
Xbox 2 Details Revealed
APRIL 27, 2004
http://www.ign.com/articles/2004/04/27/xbox-2-details-revealed
No, I stand corrected. I forgot that codename was officially recognized. I was thinking it was just supposition. I had a Xenon unit that never died :) I have a Corona now (Halo 4 edition). It shall never die.
If i remember well,MS was free riding on IBM & Sony Cell development and they got a very nice (at the time) 3C/6T CPU for 360...
Yes, more arcadey or more action-oriented. As much as I am fascinated by sims I never enjoy playing them
I was google PS4 as a lot of more recent threads came up I just tried orbis and found it. January 11th 2013, a month before reveal and we had no idea about the 8gb ram but the CPU was a higher clock at 3.2ghz with 4 cores instead of 1.6ghz with 8 cores. I hope we get some out of no where surprises from either Sony or Microsoft this time as well.
It depends on the usecase but in this example to a certain extend yes.
Let's say we have a 60 FPS game and we do the rasterization and pixel shading at 1920x1080p but the HW is not fast enough to keep 60 FPS in all cases, so we implement a dynamic resolution scaling option which currently several games use.
If we go under a certain threshold then our Raster/Shading-Rate goes down from 1920x1080 to 1440x810 to maintain 60 FPS.
This will lead to more pixelization in general, the polygons will appear more pixelated and the detail of the surfaces will also appear more blurry/pixelated.
With VRS you could go for a nicer comprimise.
You may still rasterize in 1920x1080, so your polygon edges are not getting more pixelated and your geometry details stays sharp but you reduce the Shading-Rate which makes only the surface of the polygons more pixelated/blurry.
Or as a simple illustration:
In most cases in regards to VRS it's about saving performance with lowering the Shading-Rate without too much visual impact.
You could go also the other way around if the HW and API is flexible enough and increase the Shading-Rate for fine details while keeping the Rasterization-Rate lower.
In the best case that's just a very flexible tool which allows the developer to increase or decrease the shading rate based on numerours factors.
You could couple the shading rate to a certain region (useful for VR rendering, where the focus point stays sharp, while saving performance on regions where the user wouldn't notice it anyway), to certain objects/surfaces (for very homogeneous color surfaces, like the blue sky or dark ground, where a lower S-Rate wouldn't be so visible) , to a certain movement speed (lower the shading rate when motion blur kicks in, so you get the effect for free and the user doesn't notice), to distance etc.
Nvidia has nice comparison pictures for Wolfenstein and how fine and selective it's applied:
A full comparison guide from Nvidia here:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforc...olfenstein-youngblood-nvidia-adaptive-shading
Not really, that was one reason people lost their shit. And then MS looked double ass after announcing always online and then tripled down on all DRM. Among a few other bad moves at the same time. MS have come a long, long way since those dark days. It was easy prey for Sony, at the time, although I still think some aspects of it caught them by surprise as well.
Earlier Devkits of PS4 had 4 core steamrollers core but in the end they had very high tdp so design was changed to 8 core jaguar
This makes me wonder: if you were to build a PS4 28nm APU with 4 steamroller cores, how much would you have to lower their frequency before you reached a TDP comparable to the actual OG PS4 28nm APU? And at that frequency, how would the CPU performance compare to that of the 8 core Jag?
Cant answer your first question but Steamrollers had better performance but Sony were expecting better results from Jaguar. They were hoping in time it would match Steamrollers. That's why early gen you have had a claims of 60fps or death and unlocked games
Anyone remember Fight Night Round 4 demo? That blew me away. That was the first time I was blown away by the graphics from a fighting game
These were PS3/360 graphics:
Wow, Iook at the cloth physics here:
There was this prediction from crytec that next playstation would come with 8GB Ram.
Why did they stop making them? We didn't get one on PS4/Xbox One, did we?
Didn't the same studio that made Fight Night move on to do the UFC/MMA games? Guessing they went where the money was.
I hope so. Something about the movement to sneak the haymaker in and hit 100. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
This is amazingI say the best console spec leak we ever got was for Xenon (Xbox 360) In April 2004.
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/rumor-control-son-of-dreamcast-and-xbox-next-specs/1100-6095043/
Ah, but it was authentic at that time. The final Xbox 360 CPU was 300 MHz slower (3.2 GHz vs the 3.5 GHz) but the RAM was doubled from 256 to 512 MB.
Xbox 2 Details Revealed
APRIL 27, 2004
http://www.ign.com/articles/2004/04/27/xbox-2-details-revealed
lmaoKlee when the game he saw releases in 2021, but people in this thread (with their lofty expectations for next-gen graphics) don't find any of the 2021 open-world games impressive and therefore believe he was lying:
I think he's wrong about 2019 never being on the table.
I'm fully expecting Forza 8 to be a launch title so put me down as yes for Scarlett.
