I'm guessing that the quality of graphics is going to hit a ceiling within the coming years, where they just can't possibly get any better, or if they can, not better enough to really make a noticeable difference. I read an article a couple years ago speculating that the next big thing is going to be physics. Future gaming computers will not only need a graphics card, but also a separate card made specifically for handling the physics in games. So instead of having your computer slow to a crawl when a dozen people are fighting on the screen at once, computers will be able to handle tens of thousands of people.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
When the current generation of game consoles came out (PS3, 360, Wii), I said that there was nothing wrong with the last gen (PS2, Xbox, Gamecube) and the new consoles were happening too early. When I first heard that the NEXT generation of consoles will be here by 2012 at the earliest, I thought the exact same thing. Then I saw this NVIDIA demo.
I'm guessing that the quality of graphics is going to hit a ceiling within the coming years, where they just can't possibly get any better, or if they can, not better enough to really make a noticeable difference. I read an article a couple years ago speculating that the next big thing is going to be physics. Future gaming computers will not only need a graphics card, but also a separate card made specifically for handling the physics in games. So instead of having your computer slow to a crawl when a dozen people are fighting on the screen at once, computers will be able to handle tens of thousands of people.
I'm guessing that the quality of graphics is going to hit a ceiling within the coming years, where they just can't possibly get any better, or if they can, not better enough to really make a noticeable difference. I read an article a couple years ago speculating that the next big thing is going to be physics. Future gaming computers will not only need a graphics card, but also a separate card made specifically for handling the physics in games. So instead of having your computer slow to a crawl when a dozen people are fighting on the screen at once, computers will be able to handle tens of thousands of people.
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I just upgraded my desktop card to a Geforce GTX 275 co-op, it has an additional onboard GTS 250 specifically dedicated to physics calculations so that the CPU doesn't have to crunch them, only some games take advantage of it right now but I figured it would be worth it in the long run, its kind of how games were with multicore processors a few years ago
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