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Next-Gen PS5 & XSX |OT| Console tEch threaD

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T-Cake

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Probably something like this (From another thread here on Era):

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I wonder what would happen if you run the console without the white covers?
 

SSfox

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It has deep memories inside me, it's not just a game, it's a vision into the future with the armed drones, nano machines, and lots of it's conspiracy stuff. It was the first touch into movie-like quality story telling in MGS1 on PS1, most games looked goofy in comparison.

Yeah MGS always goes beyond the "game just for fun", it has messages, the franchise will always be a pillar in the genre.

MGS1 was way too ahead on its time, on everything, gameplay, storytelling, and there were subject of real life no devs would have dare to put in games, and there was a bit fantasy too, everything was done quite perfectly to fit the very unique and iconic inverse it ended becoming. MGS is life.

It's funny when i think back then, i've seen the TV Spot and i was "Ok seems just some random stealth game", and then it ended being my favorite game of all time, and imo it still has the best bosses of all time on any game to this day, no game has ever matched that, personal opinion.
 
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Bo_Hazem

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I love MGV but that second phase of the game well is not recommendable is just unfinished.

The relationship Konami and Kojima was very complex, one wants more revenue and the other do what he wants, Kojima should understand he cannot release any game
per years while you company is putting you more pressure for release something while him for example discard many of the songs Konami already pay for only choose one
or two for you project.

I don't think was only the fault of konami that break also Kojima is Kojima but the reaction of Konami against of its employees well that doesn't have excuse.

It killed me when he didn't call David Hayter! This guy told a story of grown men asking him to make Solid Snake voice, and that made them cry! He's so passionate to gaming, and he has his iconic voice that shouldn't be replaced.

Kiefer Sutherland did a wonderful job replicating his voice, but hiring a very expensive actor is pretty dumb for such a demanding game that made the protagonist silent most of the time! Kojima is arrogant, but his genius can't be denied. Also he's cringy as fuck I can't take his shitty jokes since the MGS1 box.
 
The cheese on a Dominos pizza has more texture than Halo infinite. Just saying.
I'm trying my best not to laugh at this because i'm at work

I have heard from day 1 the RT solution used by Sony was more "elegant" than Xbox so yes from what I understand they have different methods.

Is one better then the other? That I have no idea as of yet.
My love for this man knows no bounds.
 
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sircaw

Banned
This is what I'm afraid of, they bundle the remaster together to charge full $60.

Surely the remaster has to be free, i mean unless its all coming in one big combo, like the console and the games.

I have yet to play spider man and that thought of gettin both games at once is very tempting but super unfair on other users that already own it, i doubt sony will want any negative press on this so, i am sure they will sort something out.
 

Bo_Hazem

Banned
Yeah MGS always goes beyond the "game just for fun", it has messages, the franchise will always be a pillar in the genre.

MGS1 was way too ahead on its time, on everything, gameplay, storytelling, and there were subject of real life no devs would have dare to put in games, and there was a bit fantasy too, everything was done quite perfectly to fit the very unique and iconic inverse it ended becoming. MGS is life.

It's funny when i think back then, i've seen the TV Spot and i was "Ok seems just some random stealth game", and then it ended being my favorite game of all time, and imo it still has the best bosses of all time on any game to this day, no game has ever matched that, personal opinion.

It's funny that back then all people referring to it as "Al Jasoos = The Spy" due to it's fucked up name that sounds like random words out of a dictionary. :lollipop_tears_of_joy:

I think it was the very first game to make me tear, most games were extremely bland and goofy back then. And Kojima's taste of music is on another level:





It was a major shift of how games should be presented. Having Kojima Production as a Sony 1st party is pretty fitting.
 

Yoboman

Member
Do you think with the lateness of their dev kits and everything being so behind schedule that MS have run into issues with their design or yields?
 

roops67

Member
my mind just melted.

And fs where have you been, stop taking exotic holidays on important gaming event days. You are needed here dammit. :messenger_heart:

Not by me, don't get your hopes up. Its for the other people. :messenger_sunglasses:
Hey thanks sircaw nice to know I been missed 🙏

what? your shocked no wisecrack return? That so called exotic holiday was a retreat to a Buddhist monastery, hence the previous post of enlightenment. So pi... peace out :messenger_peace:
:messenger_beaming:
 
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GRIEVEZ

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It killed me when he didn't call David Hayter! This guy told a story of grown men asking him to make Solid Snake voice, and that made them cry! He's so passionate to gaming, and he has his iconic voice that shouldn't be replaced.

Kiefer Sutherland did a wonderful job replicating his voice, but hiring a very expensive actor is pretty dumb for such a demanding game that made the protagonist silent most of the time! Kojima is arrogant, but his genius can't be denied. Also he's cringy as fuck I can't take his shitty jokes since the MGS1 box.
I absolutely loved this game. Coming from a SNES, this was the freaking future lol. The story, the music, codec convo's, the va, its gameplay - everything. It'll always be near and dear to me. I do think Tomokazu Fukushima's contribution is criminally overlooked...

Btw wanna get "spooked", watch this clip. You won't be disappointed.



This is a 19 year old game. Its almost like this convo is relevant today ;)
 
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It killed me when he didn't call David Hayter! This guy told a story of grown men asking him to make Solid Snake voice, and that made them cry! He's so passionate to gaming, and he has his iconic voice that shouldn't be replaced.

Kiefer Sutherland did a wonderful job replicating his voice, but hiring a very expensive actor is pretty dumb for such a demanding game that made the protagonist silent most of the time! Kojima is arrogant, but his genius can't be denied. Also he's cringy as fuck I can't take his shitty jokes since the MGS1 box.
I agree is few people in industry who is arrogant have reason to be but that guy know its stuff, in some way I play its last game DS and even when I don't love it
I was far of hate it, Kojima know how make games.
 

Rudius

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I think folks are going OTT in regards to follow-up video on Halo from DF. However, I do think Alex is inconsistent with his critiques. While watching the DF direct, when they are going over Halo gameplay, John makes an observation about stigma surrounding XGS who have to compete with Sony WWS, and how they are known for pushing visual boundaries, Alex immediately cuts him off 'at 30fps though!'. John tries to elaborate on it before he cuts him off again, 'really? really? I think it matters'. The thing is, he is not even wrong here. But, the the tone is telling. Part of the reason why Sony WWS games look so good is due to them running at 30fps, yes, but there goes a ton of work to make them look that good. There are many games from XGS who run at 30fps too and they can't stack up visually.

This performance metric goes AWOL when he is talking about RT in Forza trailer, quick to point out how much better RT reflections are from GT7 but fails to mention it's running at half the frames compared to GT7. These are among many inconsistencies folks find when he is giving his views on these games, can't be having different yardstick and benchmarks when you're just discussing visuals.

I don't even mind folks being biased, inherent bias is a real thing. But, at least own up to it, instead of playing the victim and pointing how others have a persecution complex, which btw is an absurd overused term these days. Anyways, my 2 cents on this non-sense.



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I was so confused by your initial post. Yeah, there are jaggies all over the place in screenshots so their rendering pipeline is not complete. Surely, it'll be improved upon in the retail version as they implement AA?
GT 7 had real gameplay at 60fps and was running on PS5. Forza had an in engine trailer running probably on a PC at 30 fps, which is almost like just saying it is in development. We can't really compare the two at this point.
 

Falc67

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I agree. I didn't think Forza looked better than GT7 at all! The road and the scenery passing by looked worse on the Forza clip. The cars didn't look as shiny (which could be lighting though) but looked very good with the raytracing in those garage segments. But, as you noted, that wasn't gameplay at all and wasn't running in XSX either. So we can't legitimately tell anything solid about Forza. The only think I CAN actually tell is that, to ME at any rate, the Forza clip didn't look quite as good as the GT7 clip. I'm sure it will be great though when it releases.

Can you provide comparisons, because I think Forza looks better. Especially the road. I saw some low texture for the road in GT7 and even pop-in during the gameplay section.
 

Bo_Hazem

Banned
I absolutely loved this game. Coming from a SNES, this was the freaking future lol. The story, the music, codec convo's, the va, its gameplay - everything. It'll always be near and dear to me. I do think Tomokazu Fukushima's contribution is criminally overlooked...

Btw wanna get "spooked", watch this clip. You won't be disappointed.



This is a 19 year old game. Its almost like this convo is relevant today ;)


Kojima must be hanged! He's a black magician! I don't remember clearly all that convo as my English wasn't that good enough to keep up, nor I would understand it as I do know with all BS around! This man is ahead of his time.
 
from what i played mgs5 have best and most responsive fluid controls of any game really amazing game definitely top 5.
It killed me when he didn't call David Hayter! This guy told a story of grown men asking him to make Solid Snake voice, and that made them cry! He's so passionate to gaming, and he has his iconic voice that shouldn't be replaced.

Kiefer Sutherland did a wonderful job replicating his voice, but hiring a very expensive actor is pretty dumb for such a demanding game that made the protagonist silent most of the time! Kojima is arrogant, but his genius can't be denied. Also he's cringy as fuck I can't take his shitty jokes since the MGS1 box.
I absolutely loved this game. Coming from a SNES, this was the freaking future lol. The story, the music, codec convo's, the va, its gameplay - everything. It'll always be near and dear to me. I do think Tomokazu Fukushima's contribution is criminally overlooked...

Btw wanna get "spooked", watch this clip. You won't be disappointed.



This is a 19 year old game. Its almost like this convo is relevant today ;)


How happy will you boys be if the Konami come back rumour is real?? (I believe the comeback is real)
How happy will you boys be if a MGS 1 remake existed? (I think is real) with decima engine. (bluepoint,+kojipro+konami)
 
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Falc67

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I remembered it wrong then. I wonder what your friends meant by more "elegant", maybe they meant that it consumed less resources?

Osiris also said PS5 had better Raytracing. He said the XSX Dev kits used the same solution as a 1080Ti. Which didn’t make sense to me as it’s not an RTX card. He said it was ‘slapped on’ if I remember correctly.

Still waiting to see the games both him and Klee saw. 👀
 

Bo_Hazem

Banned
How happy will you boys be if the Konami come back rumour is real?? (I believe the comeback is real)
How happy will you boys be if a MGS 1 remake existed? (I think is real) with decima engine. (bluepoint,+kojipro+konami)

I'm not into recycled stories/games if I did play them, I would rather have MGS6. I want the Big Boss story, the true one. Finished MGS1 17 times, MGS2 21 times, MGS3 3 times, MGS once, MGSV once.
 
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sircaw

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We lost the infamous LOL giver sociapath SleepDoctor SleepDoctor so it is only fitting we give him the farewell that he deserves.
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Thank the heavens that Doncabesa Doncabesa is still here to bless this thread.

I don't know what happened to the dude but he was taking this stuff way to serious.

when a forum starts giving you serious blow out, you need to take a step back.

Saying that, i did not like his approach of telling people to report people all the time, if someone steps out of line fair enough, report them, but to constantly spam it, is fucking sad in my book.

People are allowed to have different opinions, i mean look at me.
The vast majority of people on this forum think that i am a sex god, but to me i am just a simple little fish. Who the hell am i to argue with their opinions :messenger_grinning:
 
Forza was just another piece of bullshit, another target render.
So disappointed we got a CGI trailer for that game. I know Turn 10 churns out good games and its been a while since the last Forza so i thought they would have gameplay ready.

The whole show was a disappointment for me. At least Sony showed some game play. Maybe not a ton of it but enough to give us an idea of next gen games.

I don't know what happened to the dude but he was taking this stuff way to serious.

when a forum starts giving you serious blow out, you need to take a step back.

Saying that, i did not like his approach of telling people to report people all the time, if someone steps out of line fair enough, report them, but to constantly spam it, is fucking sad in my book.

People are allowed to have different opinions, i mean look at me.
The vast majority of people on this forum think that i am a sex god, but to me i am just a simple little fish. Who the hell am i to argue with their opinions :messenger_grinning:
Always look forward to your posts. Full of humour and by god we need that in this forum nowadays.
 
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Darklor01

Might need to stop sniffing glue
I don't know what happened to the dude but he was taking this stuff way to serious.

when a forum starts giving you serious blow out, you need to take a step back.

Saying that, i did not like his approach of telling people to report people all the time, if someone steps out of line fair enough, report them, but to constantly spam it, is fucking sad in my book.

People are allowed to have different opinions, i mean look at me.
The vast majority of people on this forum think that i am a sex god, but to me i am just a simple little fish. Who the hell am i to argue with their opinions :messenger_grinning:

No one should take this stuff that seriously unless they have a pony in the game. We can all disagree and debate. That’s all healthy.

As for you.. I’ve been around here a long time. I’ve never thought of you as a sex God. All I heard was you fucked a fluke, a flounder, and a Flipper. All good though. I ain’t judging.
 

sircaw

Banned
So disappointed we got a CGI trailer for that game. I know Turn 10 churns out good games and its been a while since the last Forza so i thought they would have gameplay ready.

The whole show was a disappointment for me. At least Sony showed some game play. Maybe not a ton of it but enough to give us an idea of next gen games.


Always look forward to your posts. Full of humour and by god we need that in this forum nowadays.

You made me blush. DON'T DO IT AGAIN:messenger_smiling_hearts:
 

GRIEVEZ

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Kojima must be hanged! He's a black magician! I don't remember clearly all that convo as my English wasn't that good enough to keep up, nor I would understand it as I do know with all BS around! This man is ahead of his time.
Teen me didnt understand what the hell was being said either, honestly I was confused as hell at the time haha. But I stumbled on this convo a while back.

It's some wicked foresight.
 

sircaw

Banned
No one should take this stuff that seriously unless they have a pony in the game. We can all disagree and debate. That’s all healthy.

As for you.. I’ve been around here a long time. I’ve never thought of you as a sex God. All I heard was you fucked a fluke, a flounder, and a Flipper. All good though. I ain’t judging.

That was all in my younger days, now it's Barnacles and the occasional old clam i'm afraid. In many ways the last example is actually correct, SIGH, nvm, i just grossed my self out.
 

GRIEVEZ

Member
How happy will you boys be if the Konami come back rumour is real?? (I believe the comeback is real)
How happy will you boys be if a MGS 1 remake existed? (I think is real) with decima engine. (bluepoint,+kojipro+konami)
Id love a MGS1 remake, but i'd love a MG remake even more. It's never been touched upon and there's definitely a story to be told

Also being in South Africa (Outer Heaven), looks like an awesome setting for a next gen game. Seems like a good follow up to MGS5 as well

But I think the chances of Kojima's involvement, is very very slim. (With the rumors of him wanting to make a Horror game/original IP)
 

Bo_Hazem

Banned
I don't know what happened to the dude but he was taking this stuff way to serious.

when a forum starts giving you serious blow out, you need to take a step back.

Saying that, i did not like his approach of telling people to report people all the time, if someone steps out of line fair enough, report them, but to constantly spam it, is fucking sad in my book.

People are allowed to have different opinions, i mean look at me.
The vast majority of people on this forum think that i am a sex god, but to me i am just a simple little fish. Who the hell am i to argue with their opinions :messenger_grinning:

SleepDoctor SleepDoctor Jul 27, 2020PermanentOngoing harassment complaint about you, and generally disruptive behavior. Best we part ways.


I don't know, I kinda miss him. :lollipop_crying:
 
Great post, I often go back to Cernys presentation like you when he talks about the new Geometry engine and what it does, as Cerny just uses standard AMD terminology and uses the word NEW a few times, everybody does not listen or believe there is something really custom here.

The patents suggest otherwise. It would be very interesting if Tempest is Ray tracing and Audio parallel processing, it is telling us allot that first showing the ps5 games shown had RT already, so something is up. Personally I am good at 60 FPS and GI, done for me.

Cerny presentations are like a fine wine, you can go back to them 10 times and find new information, every word is calculated and he does not boast, so when he says something is powerful best write it down.

What did you make of Cernys new GE comments ? We need more.
Apart from Matt's comment from Twitter, that what GE is much more broader and powerful than just having VRS, it is somewhat a mystery to anybody at this point. I mean in the presentation, prim shaders were only just a small portion of the brain that is supposed to be representing Geometry Engine. And even that prim shaders part are making a big difference this time around (like they were supposed to in the past but didn't bc it was not easy to implement and depended on the game devs -> they were either lazy or optimizing elsewhere for bigger gains than making an effort in prim shaders).

This time around prim shaders are culling the blocked portions of the objects or objects outside of screen space at the very beginning of rendering without game developer interaction or coding specifically for it. -> That makes the world of difference.

And what I found is that it is the basis of Mesh Shading in DX12, but GE doesn't stop there and invents on top of it. Sony First started (GNM and GNMX) giving whole objects numbers and then partial objects getting tagged by the same number in a sequence for rendering purposes, then it became the basis of Mesh Shading in DX 12.

These changes are definitely dev fueled and let me get you on a journey through dev memory lane -> Do anyone here remember Mantle API? How it was hyped and why? Then it died and Vulkan born. Well I can say that even then I was following these. Devs mostly wanted low level access to hardware, they wanted how instructions worked exposing their workings in the hardware so that they can code and optimize better, since they could on a Sony console. X360 and XBOne are basically DirectX shells so they are just closed system (as in no component will change so that the game code can be optimized well) but not low level access console systems. PS3 Cell, but most precisely SPUs were so amazing for the devs that they could actually slack on harder to do coding and with its brute power it would manage, and when you code for it in low access then you could make magic. Now PS4 didn't have Cell's SPUs but it had large number of ACEs (8 of them vs 2 for PCs and Xbox) that could help them make CUs work in parallel so much better that GPU CUs could be utilized more in parallel (not close to 100% utilization of SPUs ever, maybe half at most). That HW secret sauce was coming from the collective minds at Sony headed by Cerny. You didn't have to utilize ACEs (or maybe utilize some and not all) but when you do work them all we get TLOU 2 and GoT at the end of generation.




Cort at the time was part of Sony ICE team, look at his Twitter 'about me' portion and you will see a direct correlation between his ICE input
https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,156605/
and what I am pointing at, also he then became one of the guys architecting Vulkan next.



[and btw as a side, isn't this our own yewles1 yewles1 ;)


Now imagine that they have not only Geometry Engine on their GPU, but have also brought back some of the Cell SPU magic in the form of Tempest inside the same GPU. Well you don't have to imagine more, it is in the PS5 already :messenger_grinning_smiling: the arrow has been LOOSEd in the air, the target doesn't know it has been hit just yet :messenger_winking:

One of the tidbits I could find was how foveated rendering was within Sony's R&D with their patents and some literal implementation on the PSVR. Now there is research for foveated VRS too from Sony (I think someone here mentioned this recently too) and I don't think that is just for PSVR 2. Sony is great in giving options to devs, and devs is an umbrella term encompassing from lazy ones to incompetent ones and then to master ones. When devs put those special hw to good use you get good games. This was true for PS4 and it will be true for PS5, but what is more, Cerny also made sure to put some pieces of hw in there that is making the jobs of devs easier without them knowing or handling it, the correct working version of prim shaders is just one of them. Let me just say positional audio on the PSVR was really easy to develop into the games and how Uncharted 4, Uncharted LL, HZD, Days Gone, RDR2 (and some other games I missed too) and lately TLOU 2 and GoT had it and quality wise it was at least on par with Atmos for Headphones (which somehow everyone missed this detail). This is non customized CUs helping in audio only possible with the parallelization help of ACEs, now PS5 will feature customized CU just for audio, but the work on it has started much earlier with PS4 and VR. You see Cerny master plan is not just for a single console, it is for the entire ecosystem feeding tech into each other to the next iteration.

Another Sony giving options to devs who would use, is custom CheckerBoard rendering HW present only in PS4 Pros. HZD uses it and looks amazing in terms of sharpness and resolution. For example, Spider Man didn't even use that HW (became a more basic solution at that point) or even any CheckerBoarding at all, but used a technique called Temporal Injection (that specific application is patented to Insomniac and I believe one of the reasons of Sony acquisition). Temporal Injection also became the get go solution for doubling the frame rates of ambitious PSVR games later on.

PlayStation.Blog: There’s a technical term — temporal injection — that Insomniac has used to great effect in Ratchet & Clank and now in Marvel’s Spider-Man. What is temporal injection, and how have you modified its implementation between your last PS4 Pro project and this one?

Al Hastings: Temporal injection is a technique we use to create a full 4k image on the PS4 Pro without rendering every pixel on every single frame. We render slightly more than half the pixels, then “inject” them into a full-sized 4k image. By slightly jittering the locations of the rendered pixels from frame to frame, we can reconstruct a very accurate anti-aliased full 4k image over a handful of frames. There are other teams using similar techniques, but with slight variations in the implementation.

Since Ratchet & Clank, we’ve made dozens of refinements to the algorithm. These serve both to make it run faster and to minimize its shortcomings, like the tendency to make the final 4k image slightly softer than it ought to be.

Now it doesn't take a genius to guess that natural next step for PS5 is to implement a customized HW that does said Temporal Injection in the alpha blending or post processing stage of the graphics pipeline at the GPU, that is if you choose to incorporate that, again most likely it will be an option.

With all of these custom HW in mind, I think PS5 die is going to be huge, in fact it can be as big as XSX. We will finally see in the teardown when that finally happens ffs.

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sircaw

Banned
SleepDoctor SleepDoctor Jul 27, 2020PermanentOngoing harassment complaint about you, and generally disruptive behavior. Best we part ways.


I don't know, I kinda miss him. :lollipop_crying:

Yer i wanted to jest with him abit when he came back, but i don't know maybe he was just to unhinged.

I seriously hope i did not cause his melt down.

If it was Geordie or Dan-of-Riva/paul then i would of welcomed their bans :messenger_bicep: Oh well nvm.

Next target is Bo i mean Grievez, still using a cat avatar i see, that's enough in my book for war.
 

Nikana

Go Go Neo Rangers!
This is what I'm afraid of, they bundle the remaster together to charge full $60.

My gut is telling me this is like a Halo 3 ODST/Recon thing where it started out as an expansion and then it sort of morphed into its own product and they justified the $60 price tag by saying all the multi is in it.
 

yewles1

Member
I recall the conversation about you and Bo wanting to make her into a wish bone. I had not idea what you guys were talking about so i left it. all i know is, it sounded really dirty, a bit like Yewles1 :messenger_grinning:

that's like a triple whammy i just fired out,
Your attempt is as flat as a tuna patty.
 
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