Official unofficial Gen 4 hype thread: First Full-HD™ port announced

[silvertone]

i only have comments silver

silver is better than gold

[ME##]

silver is better than gold

in russland, silver turns into platinum~

[Commander Fuckass]

diamonds are forever
















[spoiler]no they're not[/spoiler]

[silvertone]

in russland, silver turns into platinum~

worth many rubbel

[ME##]

worth many rubbel

da

[bluaki]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JJW5OKbh0WA[/youtube]

that's a pretty interesting talk
I just watched the whole thing

In PC environments I'm familiar in reasonably technical ways with, portability is of greatest concern (especially hardware, including even GPU manufacturer), OSes give you an unpredictable slice of CPU clock, you can't rely on any particular number in system specs, and any focus on performance would be split between making the software run better on worse systems or adding more stuff for the system to spend its power on.

I've seen some of the sort of low level hackery that goes into old systems, but I feel like this talk shows some interesting insight on single-platform-focused development on more recent (eg 3D-capable) systems with priorities like "time to triangle" while offhandedly mentioning a much stronger focus on "puzzle-solving" assembly optimizations than I expected game developers to still have.

but I doubt many other game developer studios actually think much like Cerny does about this stuff

[Commander Fuckass]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo_5R0mruU4&NR=1&feature=endscreen[/youtube]

I can't wait to play this again

[Kalahari Inkantation]

http://allthingsd.com/20130701/exclusive-microsofts-entertainment-head-don-mattrick-leaving-to-take-top-role-possibly-ceo-at-zynga/

[spoiler][/spoiler]

[Snowy]

http://allthingsd.com/20130701/exclusive-microsofts-entertainment-head-don-mattrick-leaving-to-take-top-role-possibly-ceo-at-zynga/

[don't let's]

Things must be bad if you're jumping ship to zynga in its current shape

[Kalahari Inkantation]

http://www.polygon.com/2013/7/1/4483500/don-mattrick-xbox-microsoft-zynga

http://www.gamezone.com/news/2013/07/01/looks-like-steve-ballmer-is-the-new-xbox-boss-for-now

[ME##]

http://www.polygon.com/2013/7/1/4483500/don-mattrick-xbox-microsoft-zynga

http://www.gamezone.com/news/2013/07/01/looks-like-steve-ballmer-is-the-new-xbox-boss-for-now

i hope ballmer takes the stage at gamescom and proceeds to chant, 'indie developers, indie developers...' ad nauseam

[Kalahari Inkantation]

me too

[Kalahari Inkantation]

I’m particularly excited about how Xbox pushes forward our devices and services transformation by bringing together the best of Microsoft. The consoles are incredible all-in-one devices with built-in services that consumers love, including Bing, [...] Internet Explorer [...]

i laughed

but i'm seriously going to miss seeing don on stage, RIP

[Snowy]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D0_Cj1xxDo[/youtube]

tec video