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ATI – PS3 Is Unrefined

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Liquid said:
:lol on rsc2 on a hilly night course over live you could be at the base of the moutain and a 1/2 a mile back, look up at the hills ahead and see other players headlights making there way up the mountains all at 60fps.

???

Rallisport 1 is also known for its impressive draw distance and its 60fps framerate. Go play it again.

Still, I certainly never suggested that there was no improvement from original to sequel.
 
nah bro. it was nothing like RSC2. RSC1 had wide courses, cool foliage and nice ice effects but the courses were nowhere near as expansive as RSC2.
 
Well, this sounds nice and all but that does not explain why so few developers took advantage of this supposed great AA ability. A theory that maybe it is no so rosy has crossed my mind once or twice.
 
elostyle said:
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but how did they hide these at e3 and tgs?
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"were capable of displaying gphx"

There are the realtime demo reels(cell stuff, ff stuff, gundam, mgs4, etc...), and there were even sections were live interaction occured, mgs4, cell stuff, gundam, etc. We also know that none were on final kits :D
 
Last Hope said:
Well, this sounds nice and all but that does not explain why so few developers took advantage of this supposed great AA ability. A theory that maybe it is no so rosy has crossed my mind once or twice.

Yeah doesnt make sense. It kinda kills the HD in the games when the PQ is so awful.
 
Do we know this or do we think this? I thought some people said the epic demo was running on a PC (not just the ATI guy).
 
I'd be interested in hearing what they could say about the Revolution GPU... unfornately it doesn't appear he asked that question.
 
I knew the minute Nvidia got into the game with Xbox, that the console "wars" would become even more intolerable when combined with the arguably even larger idiocy that makes up the PC GPU "wars."
 
teiresias said:
I knew the minute Nvidia got into the game with Xbox, that the console "wars" would become even more intolerable when combined with the arguably even larger idiocy that makes up the PC GPU "wars."

Indeed. ATI/Nvidia combining with MS/Sony in this rat race was like a Corporate FUD Voltron or something. The scary thing is we're just getting started. :lol
 
"And towards the end of the process, as the story goes, they took a look at the three internal tenders and decided than none of them would actually do; none of them would deliver the kind of performance and quality that games programmers could use and would make for a good cost-effective console,

ibm and sony's engineers are known to make blunders such as these"

so Sony aren't going with the Toshiba-sony chip because.......?
 
Seriously, anyone that thinks a launch XBOX game looks as good as the current ones should just stop gaming (or being a fanboy). No way in hell would we see a game like SC: Chaos Theory during the systems launch. Name one XBOX game from launch that looks as good. Same with PS2. Name a PS2 game from launch that looks as good or better than MGS3. That scene in the field when you're fighting The Boss, come on.

And stop with the "Next Gen" animation crap. Animation is DEVELOPMENT, not SYSTEM POWER. Shadow of the Colossus = PS2, great animation. Fight Night 3 DEMO at E3 was a cutscene ala MGS. It was real time but they motion captured the whole thing. That is why the animation looked like that. He did NOT play it in real time, he moved the camera around the models in realtime. If you think the PS3 one is gonna have "superior" animation then you are sorely mistaken. He said the PS3 one is going to be a newer version, like part 4 since it's coming later (you know, attract people to it again if they played the 360 one). Will it be better than the 360 one, maybe, but lets' wait and see.

But again, animation is a development issue. Doing transitional animation for a boxing game must be hard so I don't see EA going balls out on it. Can you imagine? From left hook to block we use this set, from right cross to sway we use this....Blah. Put in some crap canned shit and move on is what it looks like their saying.

The extra power from both systems will help animation to a degree, but it comes down to the developers. Not an extra SPE...
 
i don't know why they replaced it relatively late in the day , but they did. That's a fact. The sarcastic response regarding the old chip is based on assumption about the performance of the previous chip that was _replaced by Nvidia's effort_

You'd have to assume that if you are replacing a component that it's got to be better than the solution you currently have - it's common sense regardless of what i do / don't know.
 
The statement "The Epic demo was running on a PC, and it was done using an early 7800 in SLI mode, so that was a high-end PC demo" is completely incorrect.

Our demo was NOT running on a PC. Our E3 PS3 demo was a live demo running on a PS3 development kit.


--Mark Rein, Epic Games Inc.
 
Mark Rein said:
Our demo was NOT running on a PC. Our E3 PS3 demo was a live demo running on a PS3 development kit.
I'm sorry, but I thought all the PS3 dev kits were PC-based, especially back at that time. Did you have some kind of hardware mockup instead?
 
Mark Rein said:
The statement "The Epic demo was running on a PC, and it was done using an early 7800 in SLI mode, so that was a high-end PC demo" is completely incorrect.

Our demo was NOT running on a PC. Our E3 PS3 demo was a live demo running on a PS3 development kit.


--Mark Rein, Epic Games Inc.

junior members. *roll eyes*


:P
 
Mark Rein said:
The statement "The Epic demo was running on a PC, and it was done using an early 7800 in SLI mode, so that was a high-end PC demo" is completely incorrect.

Our demo was NOT running on a PC. Our E3 PS3 demo was a live demo running on a PS3 development kit.


--Mark Rein, Epic Games Inc.

>.>...Mark...Rein...of..Epic..Games?

Holy shit if your really Mark Rein....
 
6 months is a considerable amount of time. You can literally have a graphics chip a near generation ahead in 6 months time. Plus CELL has been development much longer than MS rushed XECPU.

Also, Xbox was put together with off the shelf parts. The system is the most powerful indeed of the current gen, but it was never optimized the way Sony will optimize with their planning for Playstation 3. Sony will be unveiling the goods soon enough.

Xbox 360 is the Sega Saturn of consoles. Sega Saturn was meant to be the 2D powerhouse, but not necessarly push gaming in a new direction like Playstation pushed 3D.

Xbox 360 will be a 3D powerhouse, but it won't push gaming in a new physics based direction where CELL will have a considerable advantage.
 
Mark Rein said:
The statement "The Epic demo was running on a PC, and it was done using an early 7800 in SLI mode, so that was a high-end PC demo" is completely incorrect.

Our demo was NOT running on a PC. Our E3 PS3 demo was a live demo running on a PS3 development kit.


--Mark Rein, Epic Games Inc.

Dude. Spill the beans..

Is UT2007 eventually going to make it to the 360?

<_<
 
Jonnyram said:
I'm sorry, but I thought all the PS3 dev kits were PC-based, especially back at that time. Did you have some kind of hardware mockup instead?
I've never heard of PC-based devkits - and I know for a fact people have used Cell based ones at least since sometime in Dec2004.

DCharlie said:
so Sony aren't going with the Toshiba-sony chip because.......?
There's a lot more to a chip then just performance characteristics. Stuff like being actually economical to manufacture usually plays a much more important role :P
 
Who's the retard who got the idea that you can compare technology based on the DATE it gets released?

op_ivy said:
junior members. *roll eyes*


:P
Unless somebody is hacking his inbox at Epic....
 
BlueTsunami said:
>.>...Mark...Rein...of..Epic..Games?

Holy shit if your really Mark Rein....

Chill, mang. Lots of industry people post on GAF, and this sort of fawning isn't part of the environ that we aim for. Plus it's disrespectful to guys like Faf and Stinkles ;b
 
You know, Mark, threatening to pull all UE3 support from X360 would probably go a long way in getting ATI to issue a retraction/clarification to their rather inflammatory and incorrect comments that they presented in that rather slanderess and libel-infested interview.
 
teiresias said:
You know, Mark, threatening to pull all UE3 support from X360 would probably go a long way in getting ATI to issue a retraction/clarification to their rather inflammatory and incorrect comments that they presented in that rather slanderess and libel-infested interview.

Think that would hurt MS more than ATI. And from the looks of it I thin Mr. Rein likes MS and the 360. Probably has a good relationship with MS too so that isn't really the way I think they would handle this. Would make all the fanboys happy I bet, but it would not make for proper business.
 
teiresias said:
You know, Mark, threatening to pull all UE3 support from X360 would probably go a long way in getting ATI to issue a retraction/clarification to their rather inflammatory and incorrect comments that they presented in that rather slanderess and libel-infested interview.

Oh yes! let's pull support from a microsoft console because a mindless ATI rep says something

lol
 
"There's a lot more to a chip then just performance characteristics. Stuff like being actually economical to manufacture usually plays a much more important role :P"

yeah, but that's also a facet of good design is it not? - which is what was in question ;)

and as far as i know , the Nvidia chip _is_ a lot better than what was going to happen - plus added benefit of nvidia software support etc etc...
 
EviLore said:
Chill, mang. Lots of industry people post on GAF, and this sort of fawning isn't part of the environ that we aim for. Plus it's disrespectful to guys like Faf and Stinkles ;b

Very true, i'm just not used to blatant out of the woodworks post like his. Thats pretty cool. I'm more used to developers that act under secrecy due to NDAs. I'm amazed at how GAF has lurkers that go that high in the industry.

:O
 
DCherlie said:
and as far as i know , the Nvidia chip _is_ a lot better than what was going to happen
Well obviously economy factor alone would win out for that, but as far as the actual functionality goes I'm reserving my judgment for the moment.

- plus added benefit of nvidia software support etc etc...
Those probably meant the most difference actually - you can never overestimate the benefits of positive PR that move bought them. Reality is that even if the other choice was superior hw, it would still be the weaker choice when it comes to getting things to show early.
 
BlueTsunami said:
Very true, i'm just not used to blatant out of the woodworks post like his. Thats pretty cool. I'm more used to developers that act under secrecy due to NDAs. I'm amazed at how GAF has lurkers that go that high in the industry.

:O
It's actually kinda embarassing, considering the people who post here. ;)
 
fart said:
QUESTION: why do you guys argue so much while knowing so little
ahh..the question that always answers itself.

Personally, I like this guy's moxy. Listening to someone say that stuff like Killzone and Motorstorm is a possibility on at least one of the next gen platform is so much better than listening to some people say, "Don't aim so high! We've been hurt by unfulfilled expectations before."
 
Mark Rein and EPIC were pretty pleased about having the first real working PS3 demo so coming on here to set the record straight is not that far out.

but back on topic I dont think people should really look into PR rubbish from ATI, their views are going to be negative whatever way they put it. funny enough these are the sort of comments Ive expected from the likes of Nvidia over the years.
 
teiresias said:
You know, Mark, threatening to pull all UE3 support from X360 would probably go a long way in getting ATI to issue a retraction/clarification to their rather inflammatory and incorrect comments that they presented in that rather slanderess and libel-infested interview.

What the fuck is this? :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol
 
if you look at the architecture of the two consoles you can see we've done bizarre things that they haven't. We've built ten megabytes of dedicated ED RAM which knows how to antialias and so on, because that's a specific way of addressing a console's problem. It's bizarre in a PC sense but a special skill for a console builder. Whereas the PS3 has 256 meg of system memory and 256 meg of graphics memory it communicates through what is effectively a PCI express bus. It uses GDDR3 fast memory, it's essentially a PC graphics design bolted on to a Cell processor and 256 meg of fast system memory...
That just went past the top of my head, I have no idea what it means. Im guessing that main message is that its going to be much better than Xbox360
 
xsarien said:
I am shocked that ATi is downplaying the PS3, they don't have any vested interest in doing so at all.
Yeah, they don't want to get licencing fees from each 360 sold instead of a PS3 and promote their tech as being superior to the main competitors Nvidia. That would be silly, getting money and promoting your hardware brand is for losers. :D

And all that outside of the possibility that he is actually stating what he believes.
 
Hehe, one does wonder why industry folk tolerate the general stupidity of this forum. But hey, I guess we have our moments on here, from time to time. GAF is the Boston of the gaming forum world. It's a little bigtown...or was that a big smalltown? Meh. The booze has sapped what little funny is left in me. PEACE.
 
Pimpwerx said:
Hehe, one does wonder why industry folk tolerate the general stupidity of this forum. But hey, I guess we have our moments on here, from time to time. GAF is the Boston of the gaming forum world. It's a little bigtown...or was that a big smalltown? Meh. The booze has sapped what little funny is left in me. PEACE.

You were ever funny? PEACE.
 
D.Cowboys said:
Just like someone said earlier, the truth is somewhere in between.
Why? Its no more reasonable to assume the difference will be slight/negligible between these consoles than large.
Everyone insisting the gap won't even be PS2:Xbox are guessing the same as those saying it will be pronounced. Although one is guessing based on promises + limited information whilst the other is guessing based on distrust + limited information.
 
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