Infinity Ward: We Don't Need Next Gen

comp_ali · Oct 23, 2009, 05:44 PM

Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling says there's always a way to shatter the glass ceiling...

Speaking exclusively with NowGamer, Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling confessed that there's plenty of life left in the current crop of consoles and that the company is in no hurry to leap to a new generation of technology.
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BlueMak · Oct 23, 2009, 06:19 PM

Good. I agree, not just for consoles but for PCs too. There is plenty of power there, and not enough optimization.

ET3D · Oct 23, 2009, 08:42 PM

The problem is that it's impossible to optimise for "the PC" because it's such a varied platform. That's why some games run faster on ATI cards while others run faster on NVIDIA. Some games gain a lot from a large cache, while others gain more from multiple cores.

With consoles, optimising makes sense, because it's a standard platform with known capabilities and limitations. On the PC, you have to include a lot of options just to allow people with different hardware specs to be able to play the game. So sure, a lot of optimisation work does go into PC development, but the amount of knowledge and amount of work that would be required to do optimisation like on a console is prohibitive.

Oct 23, 2009, 05:44 PM	#1
comp_ali Sniper Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Egypt Posts: 10,469 Rep Power: 339 System Specs	Infinity Ward: We Don't Need Next Gen Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling says there's always a way to shatter the glass ceiling... Speaking exclusively with NowGamer, Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling confessed that there's plenty of life left in the current crop of consoles and that the company is in no hurry to leap to a new generation of technology. ______________ source : NowGamer __________________

Oct 23, 2009, 06:19 PM	#2
BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 13,465 Rep Power: 349 System Specs	Re: Infinity Ward: We Don't Need Next Gen Good. I agree, not just for consoles but for PCs too. There is plenty of power there, and not enough optimization. __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*

Oct 23, 2009, 08:42 PM	#3
ET3D Hopeless Dreamer Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Dreamland, near the pool of infinite graphics cards Posts: 3,057 Rep Power: 105 System Specs	Re: Infinity Ward: We Don't Need Next Gen The problem is that it's impossible to optimise for "the PC" because it's such a varied platform. That's why some games run faster on ATI cards while others run faster on NVIDIA. Some games gain a lot from a large cache, while others gain more from multiple cores. With consoles, optimising makes sense, because it's a standard platform with known capabilities and limitations. On the PC, you have to include a lot of options just to allow people with different hardware specs to be able to play the game. So sure, a lot of optimisation work does go into PC development, but the amount of knowledge and amount of work that would be required to do optimisation like on a console is prohibitive.