DSOGaming writes: "Remember Square Enix's Agnis Philosophy tech demo? What a brilliant piece of demo that was, right? A lot of gamers were wondering what kind of GPU was powering this beast, as we were getting visuals similar to CG quality with constant 60fps. Some thought that it was Nvidia's GTX690 cards powering it, while others thought that those visuals could only be achieved by a quad-SLI system. Well, seems that everyone was wrong as the Agnis Philosophy Tech Demo was running on a single, Nvidia GTX680 card"
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth publisher Square Enix has declared a $140m loss based on a shakeup of its internal development pipeline.
What are they doing over there? Sounds like they canceled something big. I read a rumor a while back about ff9 remake . Here "Final Fantasy IX has gone through a very challenging development, the game is still in progress but may undergo changes drastic enough that we won't hear about it for a couple of years."
This could be one of the reasons if the rumor is true. That was Silknight i don't know how credible he is but it's something and it would make sense.
The industry implosion is continuing. Sky high budgets, prolonged development windows, stagnant sales numbers, and falling currency values (inflation) are wreaking havoc on the legacy industry. AAA games will slowly become the rarity.
Saad from eXputer: "After suffering from massive financial hits, Square Enix & Bandai Namco appear to be turning over a new leaf but I'm still unconvinced."
I was talking about games with some Japanese guys here in Japan, and it seems like around here Bandai Namco has a fame of making low-quality games, with the occasional gem.
About Square Enix, I believe they lack the capacity to improve. They should learn with Capcom (although even Capcom still makes some bad mistakes), but I don't think they ever will. They keep chasing whatever is new at the time (blockchain, AI...) to say "we innovate", without considering the public perception and if these things actually improve the games or not. Them releasing too many small games with no advertising also shows a lack of trust in its own products. Even with their biggest games, like turning FF into an action game with XVI and the very divisive plot changes regarding whispers and timelines in VII Remake, shows them trying to attract a new generation of gamers without understanding what made the series so big in the first place.
I don’t know why NOW they decide on this, but I guess later is better than never.
Saad from eXputer: "I'm glad I don't have to choose between Square Enix, Atlus, and FromSoftware due to bad release windows and Shadow of the Erdtree."
What a word vomit, rambling, turd of an article that simply states the obvious. Classic exputer.
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i wonder if we will be playing games looking this good soon then?.... license this engine out please
GTX680 or something similar will be the next gen benchmark for consoles.
With no AI or control scheme or game mechanics implemented. 100% strictly graphical tech demo. Even running on a single 680 not fully optimized, it's still overly ambitious for the next few years. It'll take 5 years minimum to actually play fully realized games running smooth 60fps looking like that.
Still no single card can or is just barely able to max Crysis 1.
Still no single card can or is just barely able to get constant 60fps in BF3 with 4xMSAA.
Still no single card can max out Max Payne with 8xMSAA.
Still no card can max out GTA Vice City with 8xSSAA.
Because a game turns on this or that engine doesn't mean it will be a good game, nor a beautiful one.
Unreal Engine 3, for example. Gears of War 2, Bulletstorm or Batman: Arkham City / Asylum are absolutely gorgeous, while Duke Nukem: Forever, Legendary and Section 8 are also UE3 games, and yet they are far from being stellar.
The single Engine argument is not sufficient to guarantee a quality game.
How about companies start making real time demos showing off their engines instead of cutscenes? How are we supposed to know if that is real time or not if there is no interaction?
Something like the Star Wars 1313 demo...this Square engine looked really good, but it was just a movie.