Chris: Yeah, excellent.I believe Frostbite is in its seventh year or so right? Can you tease a little maybe of what we might see in the next evolution of the engine?
Johan: Yeah, sure. One of the things that we’re focusing quite a lot of effort on is actually not something that the consumers will see directly. It's more of an internal thing of how we sort of work with content, how we work with the engine, and we have so many game developers now. It's like 15 different game teams out there. There’s hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of game creators, artists, level designers, audio designers, and everything. One of the main things we’re focusing on is just streamlining work flows and making sure that they have really, really good iteration times. This has been a focus with Frostbite traditionally, and especially when we did Frostbite 2 we did a really big push on it.

We’re sort of doing that again and that will hopefully make it a lot more efficient and in some cases even more fun for us to work because they will come to work and directly see the results. It's a big effort to improve in these areas. And I think end users, the way they will see this is that hopefully they'll play richer games and have more content and more variability. The stuff I mentioned with Levolution, that's something that sort of springs from this also. If you have content creators that can be really creative with the engine and work very well with it and you have a powerful core engine, well, then they can create some amazing scenarios there. I think you will see that in quite a few games going forward now we’re improving things even further here.
Another thing is we’re doing quite a lot of work on rendering at its core also, things like physically based rendering and more realistic materials in our overall rendering pipeline we're working with, and just pure performance there also with Mantle will lead to some very cool games in the future. We’re not really constrained by what we can do today, but we sort of have a lot more to play with and enable new types of rendering techniques and solutions for some of our different games out there. That will be really interesting to see.

The first games we launched were cross-generational games focusing both on current-generation consoles with Xbox 360 and PS3, but also next-generation consoles and PC. That was quite difficult to do, to sort of build a game that works on all of those different platforms.
Chris: Yeah.
Johan: Some of our games going forward will only focus on the next-generation consoles and PC, and with the same engine, there's so much you can achieve if you can not only target that type of performance level. I'm really happy what we’re able to do now with the scaling in Battlefield, it's really quite great I think, but having the game designers think only about the next-generation consoles is really interesting and really awesome.
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Come on AMD! Bring it already!!!! SteamMachines are around the corner!
-Your game is good in this?
-Yes our game is good in this becouse [...].
Just the phrasing and the form changes.
At least the users in tomshardware can still offer some solid information. And later people dont understand why 80% of the readers automaticly jump to user comments before reading the full article.
Good lord! The PS4 can't even run Battlefield 4, a launch title, at 1080p? Where will these consoles be in 5 years time?!?!
Good lord! The PS4 can't even run Battlefield 4, a launch title, at 1080p? Where will these consoles be in 5 years time?!?!
May be spending $500-600 on a CPU + a 5years warranty reliable Asus Sabertooth X79 isnt a bad investment. lol
Its still early in the console cycle and devs will need time to fully unlock them. With the semi heterogeneous architectures of the new consoles its going to be a steep learning curve to figure out the best ways to utilize GPU compute power. They talk about having the CPU at 95% utilization but just because its busy doesn't mean its efficient. Busy is easy to achieve, efficiency is not. There's a lot of room to grow yet.
That plus I don't think most exclusive console gamers are really worried about 1080p (other than a random number in a vacuum that seems bigger than other random numbers). If they were truly worried about resolution they'd be on a PC. The games are still prettier than a 360/PS3 so they'll be happy in the end.
Good lord! The PS4 can't even run Battlefield 4, a launch title, at 1080p? Where will these consoles be in 5 years time?!?!
Frostbite is probably most demanding engine out there... check if your PC can run BF4 at min. 60 FPS in high details @ 1080p. There are many that can't.
Next gen consoles are speced like mediocre gaming PC of today. WTH you expect.
In near future programmers will be able to squeeze bit more juice of them because of more unified and exposed hardware but that's all.
Performance and Quality is on PC.
As for the PS4 can't do 1080p, so what? How much do you have to spend on a PC to 1080p on BF4 on ultra? $1500+ compared to $400.
Good lord! The PS4 can't even run Battlefield 4, a launch title, at 1080p? Where will these consoles be in 5 years time?!?!
Go get a PS3/XB 360 emulator and try run it on your PC, watch your system be brought to its knees.
The Console is a process monster capable of scaling its hardware to the point it gives guarenteed fixed smooth performance. I have a 2400 and a GTX670 DCUII and BF4 has CPU spikes as high as 110ms despite rendering around 60FPS on ultra preset. The end result is stutter and lags which you will never see on a console even on the biggest home entertainment systems today.
A guarenteed 30FPS with no latency at any TV setup is far better than my friends IBe and 780ti micro stuttering system with serious latency spikes.
Mate, it is actually far less than $1500... try $499; BUT a caveat, only possible once Mantle is out AND available in Linux AND the game has a linux-steamMachine port; else Windows-reinstall on the SteamMachine with BF4 running with Mantle.
But it is still all theory, no proof! Here's to hoping!
http://rootgamer.com/8383/tool/steamos/steam-machine-amd-hardware-cost-499
Mate, it is actually far less than $1500... try $499; BUT a caveat, only possible once Mantle is out AND available in Linux AND the game has a linux-steamMachine port; else Windows-reinstall on the SteamMachine with BF4 running with Mantle.
But it is still all theory, no proof! Here's to hoping!
http://rootgamer.com/8383/tool/steamos/steam-machine-amd-hardware-cost-499
$499 for a hypothetical machine that doesn't say anywhere it will do BF4 on max, or that BF4 would even be ported to it. This article is about BF4, comments were about BF4, so you post a steam machine page.