GTAV not pushing the ps3 to its limit

[Aegrus]

That's the texture resolutions Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriot = 1024x768 (2xAA, temporal), that's pretty good considering its on a console, 1k HD graphics, 2k and so on. If the textures where 512x it would have looked terrible. there hasn't been a game yet with 4k textures or even 1920x1080, even on the most advanced game. It would take up to much space, you must be confusing texture resolution with the actual on screen resolution.

 

No one makes a 1024x768 or 1920x1080 texture resolution. As a fairly experience texture modder, I can tell you I have never seen that resolution. Those are only screen resolutions.

 

Texture resolutions are usually 1024x1024 which, by the way, is already larger than 1024x768. Sometimes it's 2048x2048, which is larger than 1920x1080. I make my textures from 2048x2048 to 4096x4096. It's not hard to all to fit a game with all 2048x2048 textures on an ordinary, non bluray disk.

 

And, indeed, MGS4 was not displayed at 1920x1080. It was sub 720p. That wasn't a limitation of disk space; displaying at higher screen resolutions doesn't demand higher disk space. All the game's core assets remain the same regardless of what resolution the game is displayed at.

 

For the record, Bluray will never catch on for PCs, nor will it make porting harder for PCs. Gaming is going digital. The vast hard drive sizes of newer PCs will simply allow people to download entire games and skip the disk entirely. Indeed, porting is expected to become easier this generation, since the next-gen consoles use x86 architecture.

[Thor.]

Well we shall see if pc games will follow suite with console hardware, the thing with next gen games is the size, just imagine trying to download a 50gb or larger game from steam if next gen has broken the 50gb wall with Blu ray capacity.

Edited August 18, 2013 by Thor.

[hoofhearted4]

I think the last cd i bought for PC was either DA2 OR SC2.i don't buy cds anymore. It's faster and easier to just go on Steam and get the game. Usually cheaper too. I can see myself doing the same thing for PS3 too. That said I don't have a bandwidth or DL cap so that's nice. For someone who does cd is the only option. In which case PC might need to adopt Blu ray for that reason and those people.

[Thor.]

Exactly my point, not everyone has a fast enough download speed or cap that allows such size of a game to be even considered downloaded. I have no download cap, but i do have a crap download speed of 720kb's so that would take nearly a decade to finish.

[Rennn]

Exactly my point, not everyone has a fast enough download speed or cap that allows such size of a game to be even considered downloaded. I have no download cap, but i do have a crap download speed of 720kb's so that would take nearly a decade to finish.

 

My download speed is 350 kb/s, on average. It takes all day to download one smallish game.

 

Ofc, it's not likely that next-gen PC games will hit the 50GB mark. I doubt they'll even come close. PS3 devs take advantage of blu-ray capacity to stream as much uncompressed data from the disk as possible (especially audio and rendered videos), bloating file size dramatically.

 

Would it help PCs to switch to blu-ray? Yes, of course. I plan on getting a blu-ray drive at some point, though I doubt I'll have a reason to use it often. There's no denying that blu-ray is a massive jump over any other disk media available, but disks themselves are less relevant than they used to be.

Edited August 18, 2013 by Rennn

[hoofhearted4]

I usually download between 1-2mbs.

[Aegrus]

Well we shall see if pc games will follow suite with console hardware, the thing with next gen games is the size, just imagine trying to download a 50gb or larger game from steam if next gen has broken the 50gb wall with Blu ray capacity.

 

 

I highly doubt we're going to see 50 GB games this generation. Games which look better than the next-gen console games, like Metro Last Light or Crysis 3 are, what, not even 20 GB? (14.6 for Crysis 3, I believe.)

[JimboUK]

 

Well we shall see if pc games will follow suite with console hardware, the thing with next gen games is the size, just imagine trying to download a 50gb or larger game from steam if next gen has broken the 50gb wall with Blu ray capacity.

 

 

I highly doubt we're going to see 50 GB games this generation. Games which look better than the next-gen console games, like Metro Last Light or Crysis 3 are, what, not even 20 GB? (14.6 for Crysis 3, I believe.)

 

 

They'll probably use the space up with HD video and uncompressed audio, it'll make them harder to pirate.