Last-Gen Console Discussions (PS3, Xbox 360, Wii)

Originally posted by Lana
Let's hope I don't beat some whiny 16 year old over the head with a controller.

Like this.....bang?

any excuse to use that smiley eh 😛

damn right! bang

It IS sort of my trademark smilie 😛

This is one amazing article that I found while reading on the debate of HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray. This is a must read. While I think games at the moment do not need to be on discs with more room I still think games will move onto HD-DVDs in the future.

http://www.gamesfirst.com/index.php?id=1132

That is a pretty interesting article.

"The PS3 will be able to store more data with their blu-ray discs, but that won't necessarily mean that they'll be any less limited in their creativity. It might simply give developers more room to be sloppy in their programing."

yup

Originally posted by El_NINO
This is one amazing article that I found while reading on the debate of HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray. This is a must read. While I think games at the moment do not need to be on discs with more room I still think games will move onto HD-DVDs in the future.

http://www.gamesfirst.com/index.php?id=1132

Go 360! 😱

Thanks for the article

yeah taht was a pretty interesting article.

I am more amazed at where game developers are in compression techniques.

Procedural Synthesis:

Procedural synthesis is has a great deal of potential to effect the Xbox 360's filesizes. In short, procedural synthesis is a way of producing graphics that Microsoft has pushed heavily with the introduction of the Xbox 360, including specific hardware functions designed to do handle procedural synthesis. It uses algorithms to produce high quality graphics out of extremely small files. For the best example of what procedural synthesis can do, check out .kkrieger, which means Warrior in German. This first person shooter is built almost entirely from procedural graphics, and as a consequence occupies about 96 Kilobytes of space. Yes, the game responsible for this screenshot here, here, and here could fit almost 14 copies on an old-fashioned 1.4 megabyte floppy disk.

You can download a beta version of this game from the developer's website here, but be warned that it's fairly buggy, and meant more as a technology demonstration than anything else.

Procedural synthesis is the reason that Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has such brilliant forests. Oblivion makes use of a technology called SpeedTree, a middleware product for procedurally generating forests and foliage. You can see other examples of their software in screenshots here, here, and here.

If you go back you can see in that paragraph he gives an example of a game that is next gen looking yet is only 96kb in size.

Originally posted by El_NINO
I am more amazed at where game developers are in compression techniques.

If you go back you can see in that paragraph he gives an example of a game that is next gen looking yet is only 96kb in size.

That is pretty damn amazing.

this is getting too complicated...im lost 🙁...

its pretty straight forward, just give the article another read. usually works for me if i dont understand something.

yea it sorta makes sense now..

You're going to love this for XBL! 😄

Originally posted by MadMel
yea it sorta makes sense now..

mhm

is it comprehensible.....

what makes you think i am??

i think its obvious. 😛

Originally posted by WrathfulDwarf
You're going to love this for XBL! 😄

w00t

Originally posted by MadMel
what makes you think i am??

is it comprehensible.....