The next gen of consoles (PS / XBOX) will probably not release till 2015.

There is no way Sony and Microsoft are going to rush this and release 2013. For a release date 2013 the specs has to be finalized this year.

Now think about that. Can they cram in something the level of a 590 gtx card and an I7 cpu with 6GB of ram in a small console case and still keep it cool with an 600W PSU. And to think this is going for $399. You guys are not being realistic here.

For a release date 2015, yes those specs I believe are achievable but in 2013, keep dreamin.

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I don't think the will give Nintendo 3 years on the market with it's new console.

I'd give them one year after Nitnendo releases their console.

I am not sure if it's a driver issue or just that I didn't notice it until now but almost all Unreal Engine games seem to have horrible dynamic shadows.

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The shadows look jagged and misshapen like this.

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I tried out Prius Online which is an Unreal 2.5 engine game and it also had that problem.

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Is this something that is just common with all Unreal Engine games and cannot be fixed?

nanosuit guys have about 70k polys IIRC only the enemies have the 10k number.

MC3887

link to info?

I am guessing consoles will go for maybe a gimped six core CPU, 2 gigs of shared RAM, 500GB-1TB Hard Drive, and A GPU that is comparable to an upper mid end tier GPU of 2013 with new tech. And it will cost 399USD.

Are you talking about GPU ram or just ram in general. Because I think 4Gb is actually min for system ram anymore or at least mid.

AutoPilotOn

I could max Crysis out using only 2 gigs of RAM and a 512vRAM.

The only games I have ever run into that require more than 2 gigs of RAM was Half Life cinema mod 10 and ARMA 2.

So you are very misinformed about computer hardware.

To bring another issue from my argument two posts ago.

UC2 has better character models than Crysis.

Crysis models are less than 10,000 polys yet.....

I expect a machine that is better than the highest end PC today in 3 years from now. Back in 2005-06 when the X360 came it out, it rivaled top level PC's which costs 3x as much.Dynafrom

I wouldn't say 3 times as much.

Even these games take Gears 1 on PC to task. If I didn't know any better, I'd say you're just trolling me. Honestly.

gamecubepad

That is how UC1 and 2 really looks like.

Videos don't add jagged edges but bullshots will smooth them out better than 16xQAA

And you resized my screenshots so I made the original size again.

You may think those games look better But I do not.

I have my opinion and you have yours.

Just like some people may think pong looks better than Crysis.

I do agree that UC2 has better lighting and models but overall it doesn't look better.

Also please use the correct size on my screenshots otherwise you hide detail.

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I am not going to argue about Gears of War PC.

I think it easily looks better than any console game this gen ever will and you do not end of story.

gamecubepad

I'd have to seriously question your judgement if you're gonna make claims like that.

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I'm not gonna say the Xenos is more powerful than the GTX 512, but the G7x series wasn't without it's flaws as well. No FP16+AA, shader stalls during texture fetch ops, dedicated pixel/vertex shader pipelines, and so on.

Like I said, Xenos was cutting-edge at the time of it's release.

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Now back to the "Gears looks better than any console game for the whole gen" claim...

Gears 3 and UC3, even in MP, straight up destroy Gears 1 on PC gfx. There is literally no aspect outside of res and AA that Gears beats them in.

Yes the 7800gtx has it's fair share of problems and yes the Xenos had newer tech but I never argued that.

This whole thing started when someone said that 2005 hardware didn't have a chance of running games at console settings and that the Xenos was more powerful than any single gpu card of 2005.

Now onto the other stuff....

Yummy with the UC1 bullshot with huge amounts of blur in the background and a blurry ugly looking Gears 3 screenshot.

Gears 1 PC trashes both.

Here is how UC1 really looked like.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Wyx8mNKe9ZQ/TZ43hc-PERI/AAAAAAAAAQU/klsZ_t7-x5A/s1600/uncharted2+Screen+1.jpg

Heck let me jump to the big hitter UC2.

http://gamerpoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/uncharted-2-whoa-31.png

http://gamerpoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/uncharted-2-whoa-21.png

http://gamerpoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/uncharted-2-whoa-darn-it1.png

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/5889/1255596562084.jpg

Bleh.