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[LowParry]

Has the Vita even gotten a release date yet, for anywhere. If it's supposed to be out within 3 months, shouldn't a date have been announced by now?

Do you even read your own thread? lol

 

[artist]

The other duplicate thread got rightfully locked .. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=452335

Fermi retailed for $299 at launch.

I stopped reading here. I havent read such drivel in a long long time. Yuck.

 

[Stephen Colbert]

Sony, you really should have listened...

http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/10/powervr-series6-g6200-and-6400/

Announced during CES, Imagination Technologies unveiled the first cores of its upcoming PowerVR 6-series mobile GPU line-up, the PowerVR G6200 and the G6400, stating that the respective two and four compute cluster IPs were ready for immediate licensing.

Delivering the best performance in both GFLOPS/mm2 and GFLOPS/mW, PowerVR Series6 GPUs can deliver 20x or more of the performance of current generation GPU cores targeting comparable markets. This is enabled by an architecture that is around 5x more efficient than previous generations.

PowerVR Series6 GPU cores are designed to offer computing performance exceeding 100GFLOPS (gigaFLOPS) and reaching the TFLOPS (teraFLOPS) range enabling high-level graphics performance from mobile through to high-end compute and graphics solutions.

The PowerVR Series6 family will deliver a significant portfolio of new technologies and features, including: an advanced scalable compute cluster architecture; high efficiency compression technology including lossless image and parameter compression and the widely respected PVRTC™ texture compression; an enhanced scheduling architecture; dedicated housekeeping processors; and a next generation Tile Based Deferred Rendering architecture. These features combine to produce a highly latency tolerant architecture that consumes the lowest memory bandwidth in the industry while delivering the best performance per mm2 and per mW.

Says Hossein Yassaie, CEO, Imagination: "Based on our experience in shipping hundreds of millions of GPU cores, plus extensive market and customer feedback, we have been able to set a new standard in GPU architecture, particularly in the areas of power, bandwidth and efficiency – the key metrics by which GPUs are now judged. We are confident that with the Rogue architecture we have a very clear technology advantage and an exceptional roadmap for the PowerVR Series6 family which our partners can depend on."

Imagination believes that next generation devices, utilizing the extraordinary GPU performance that PowerVR Series6 delivers at optimal power levels, will change the landscape of software development as application developers start to realize the enormous parallel processing power available to them via Series6 GPU cores for both graphics and more generalized GPU Compute-based high performance computing tasks.

All members of the Series6 family support all features of the latest graphics APIs including OpenGL ES 'Halti'*, OpenGL 3.x/4.x, OpenCL 1.x and DirectX10 with certain family members extending their capabilities to full WHQL-compliant DirectX11.1 functionality.

As is, the Vita is being sent out to die this Feb because it doesn't provide enough of an improvement/differntiation over the 3DS.

If the Vita featured this with build in support for DX11.1 and came out Fall 2012, they could easily downport PC games and even next gen consoles games directly to the Vita.

 

[Shai-Tan]

there's always new hardware. meanwhile the machines people are buying have years old technology in them

 

[Kazuma Kiryu]

$500 ps vita?

 

[blu]

Sony, you really should have listened...

As is, the Vita is being sent out to die this Feb because it doesn't provide enough of an improvement/differntiation over the 3DS.

If the Vita featured this with build in support for DX11.1 and came out Fall 2012, they could easily downport PC games and even next gen consoles games directly to the Vita.

So you don't think you embarrassed yourself enough already with the OP?

 

[Stephen Colbert]

$500 ps vita?

Lol, no why? Imagination licenses their chips out for a few dollars a pop. A $269 PS Vita at most.

 

[Arkham]

Lol, no why? Imagination licenses their chips out for a few dollars a pop. A $269 PS Vita at most.

You kinda hit the nail on the head there with "imagination".

 

[dark10x]

Sony, you really should have listened...


As is, the Vita is being sent out to die this Feb because it doesn't provide enough of an improvement/differntiation over the 3DS.

If the Vita featured this with build in support for DX11.1 and came out Fall 2012, they could easily downport PC games and even next gen consoles games directly to the Vita.

Uhh, it may have been sent to die, but it's not because it doesn't provide enough of an improvement over 3DS (it absolutely does).

 

[[Nintex]]

Sony, you really should have listened...




As is, the Vita is being sent out to die this Feb because it doesn't provide enough of an improvement/differntiation over the 3DS.

If the Vita featured this with build in support for DX11.1 and came out Fall 2012, they could easily downport PC games and even next gen consoles games directly to the Vita.

Haha I somehow expected you to return for this and I have to admit, it would've been neat.

 

[Tarin02543]

By the time the PowerVR6 Vita would have been launched in Japan something even better would be announced, be it Tegra4 or PowerVR7.

Mobile tech is advancing so fast right now due to everybody wanting a smartphone.

 

[The Elite]

Sony, you really should have listened...




As is, the Vita is being sent out to die this Feb because it doesn't provide enough of an improvement/differntiation over the 3DS.

If the Vita featured this with build in support for DX11.1 and came out Fall 2012, they could easily downport PC games and even next gen consoles games directly to the Vita.

I love the 3DS but there's quite a big difference graphically between that and the Vita.

 

[Takao]

Vita isn't being sent to die because it doesn't have this chip. It's being sent to die because it doesn't have the games, nor the marketing to make it work.

 

[Stephen Colbert]

Three quick points...

1. Now it's pretty well confirmed that the Vita was indeed sent to die, and launched prematurely, and with not enough games developed for it.

2. Xperia Play 2 featuring Vita's internals and Vita games provides a life line for Vita to have a second wind. The idea of such an all in one device has gotten a renewed sense of interest on message boards and such, including on Neogaf...
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=41329165

3. It's pretty well confirmed that the PS4 will indeed support 4k resolutions as speculated here, and will be a graphical beast. I wouldn't rule out Project Denver powering the PS4 just yet.