Capcom: Next gen consoles will have much of its technology drawn from the PC technology

In an interview with website PC Games Hardware, Capcom Producer Jun Takeuchi talks about Lost Planet 2 for PC and the differences between developing for PC and consoles. A lot of interesting statements like "The core quality of a product does not depend on the packaging".

[Droid Control]

do already.

[nygamer28]

is that a bad thing?

[Darkfiber]

Pretty sure every generation has.

[edhe]

Yeah, ever gen is a distillation of PC tech in one way or another. The obvious one being the xbox CPU & customised GPU as well as the PS3's custom GPU.

Can't say much about the Wii however.

[StitchJones]

uhm... DUH. that's a pretty stupid article. The problem is that the console is based on X technology that is affordable to the masses, but you cannot upgrade it as you can a PC. If there were less cheaters out there in the PC world, consoles would not be doing as well as they are right now.

[Saryk]

The reason PCs don’t do well as they should. When you have Sony and Microsoft making tons of money off of people: what do you think they will say about the competition? Hell I have been using computers since the C-64. And in all those years I always heard that PC gaming is dying. Now I own 4 top notch computers in my home and my family and I have a blast on them. Dirt 2, Borderlands, L4D1 and 2, CODs, Battle Station and many more let us have a blast.

[NYC_Gamer]

consoles already do....

[Gue1]

PS3 uses a CPU with 8 SPE's, not cores like normal CPU's for the PC. The PS3 has 256 MB of XDR DRAM main memory that runs at 3.2GHZ and 256 MB of GDDR3 video memory for the RSX and not unified like the PC. The GPU and CPU of the PS3 can communicate with each other to let the CPU help on GPU procedures cus as we all know the Cell's SPE's are not only good for calculations but for video too.

PC architecture is someting like this: CPU runs, GPU renders, ram sustain the data. That's why when you're building a PC for gaming it is always more important to have a powerful GPU than a CPU. In the PC environment the GPU works alone to do practically everything so the game will look as good as the power of your GPU can provide, the same with the X360.

With the PS3 devs need special coding for the SPE's to run properly and when I say "special" I mean totally "different" code. On top of that they need to divided that code in 7 chunks (remember that one is deactivated) for each SPE of no more than 256KB (that's the memory of each SPE). As they don't have any experience because the Cell is basically the only CPU on the planet with SPE then it's obvious devs are going to fail when trying to utilize it for the first time. Now to that add the separated ram and weak GPU to the equation and what we got here is a real bitch architecture where devs are forced to work around the complicated Cell more than with the GPU.

When they say "more like the PC" he probably means that future consoles will have powerful GPU's cus they are made specifically for this kind of job. When you compare current gen consoles with last gen you'll notice that the jump in processing power of the CPU was really huge! When the X360 and PS3 came out their CPU's were the most powerful CPU's on the market but their GPU's failed even to the entry level PC GPU's of 2005-2006.

[jmmurillo86]

PC tech = every-computer-in-the-world tech

[Letros]

PC should have 12 core mainstream CPU's by the time next gen consoles come out(8 cores due in a few months), Capcom is actually doing smart by adapting MT Framework to DX11 and 8-12 core future(sounds like a next gen Xbox to me)

[magus]

shut up capcom you need to focus on making good games not like that dodo crap lost planet 2.

[gcolley]

my problem is not what they said but the idiot who thought this was news