Yesterday was awash with news from the Gamescom trade show in Cologne. In amongst the major announcements, The Processor noticed Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli’s claims that we should not expect games to look much better than they currently do until the next crop of consoles in 2012.
Cevat Yerli addresses delegates
This is crap. The PS3 in particular still has a whole load of untapped potential. Many developers have not even fully exploited dual-core architecture, let alone it’s sophisticated multicore processor. There is still plenty of processing power left in the current generation of machines. Total data on disc is also a major factor. The amount of data a game can draw on is limited by the disc format, and while multi-platform games can only take advantage of around 5Gb of storage (because, in common with most PCs, the Xbox 360 does not have a Blu-Ray drive), PS3 exclusives can make use of a whopping 25Gb. I think there is a whole load of leverage until 2012, but it will take some clever programming to fully exploit it.
