Sony unlocks the PS4's 7th processing core for developers

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Sony has unlocked the PS4's 7th processing core for use by developers in future games.

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Read more on the PS4's performance boost.
 
To me this just screams companies deliberately crippling performance from the start. By adding performance available to devs at a later date than launch seems like it was always kept in reserve for its mid life reawakening. Unfortunately with the resurgence of PC becoming a major gaming platform it seems they have been forced to eek out every extra bit of performance they can find.
 
Not that its a slouch as it is at present eh lol.

I don't get why they don't unlock it all from the off.

In the case of the Xbox One it was so that all games would be able to use voice commands and the Kinect. That was abandoned after Sony's advantage became clear.

I don't know what sony used the 7th core for before now, so some feature might be unused now or Sony has just made the OS require less CPU grunt through optimization or just making it run slower in games.
 
In the case of the Xbox One it was so that all games would be able to use voice commands and the Kinect. That was abandoned after Sony's advantage became clear.

I don't know what sony used the 7th core for before now, so some feature might be unused now or Sony has just made the OS require less CPU grunt through optimization or just making it run slower in games.

I'm on the beta software list for the Ps4 and there's been lots of optimisation updates of late.

Maybe the dedicated core was for their porn camera..umm i mean playstation camera lol.
 
To me this just screams companies deliberately crippling performance from the start. By adding performance available to devs at a later date than launch seems like it was always kept in reserve for its mid life reawakening. Unfortunately with the resurgence of PC becoming a major gaming platform it seems they have been forced to eek out every extra bit of performance they can find.

Not really. SDKs are constantly being refined and improved for any software and this is just a case of Sony's Engineers doing just that. You can't blame them tbh. They aren't kings of software(not literally before some takes it that way) like MS engineers are and MS was kinda forced into doing it. Sony didn't really have a need for it. Just doing it now gives more people a reason to PS than Xbox.

In the case of the Xbox One it was so that all games would be able to use voice commands and the Kinect. That was abandoned after Sony's advantage became clear.

I don't know what sony used the 7th core for before now, so some feature might be unused now or Sony has just made the OS require less CPU grunt through optimization or just making it run slower in games.

Ya I want to know what unlocking it means they gave up on. They probably just unlocked it and gave devs the choice through the SDK to either use it for themselves or support PS Eye(or whatever its called now). I know the PS has a separate internet chip that handles that side of things so not much else it could be outside the OS.
 
To me this just screams companies deliberately crippling performance from the start. By adding performance available to devs at a later date than launch seems like it was always kept in reserve for its mid life reawakening. Unfortunately with the resurgence of PC becoming a major gaming platform it seems they have been forced to eek out every extra bit of performance they can find.

Not realy it was exposed that the xbone and ps4 before relese that 6 core's are dedicated to games and 2 core's where dedicated to the os and background operations the reason the 'next gen' consoles suck is because they were out of date before release.
Unlike when the 360 come out when the 360 was just as powerfull as a computer twice its price at the time of release.
Dosent matter what sony or microsoft do with those boxes thay are allready out dated.
 
or Sony has just made the OS require less CPU grunt through optimization or just making it run slower in games.
Probably something like this. People have speculated that something like this would happen once consoles optimize their OS further. I think it also happened on the PS3/Xbox 360 back in the day.
 
Probably something like this. People have speculated that something like this would happen once consoles optimize their OS further. I think it also happened on the PS3/Xbox 360 back in the day.

Precisely,

I remember Microsoft making similar statements about DirectX 12 and OS tweaks unlocking more potential of the console.

I personally think that it is great to see each gaming platform driving forward the efficiency of their hardware like this.
 
I think MS said that DX12 would provide at most a 7% improvement iirc. Still 7% more performance in a console is quite large when only thing that changes is software. Wonder what the extra core for the PS gives performance wise.
 
I think MS said that DX12 would provide at most a 7% improvement iirc. Still 7% more performance in a console is quite large when only thing that changes is software. Wonder what the extra core for the PS gives performance wise.
7% can mean the difference between dipping below 30fps and maintaining a steady framerate. Every little bit helps when their precious consoles can't even run the game at 30fps/1080p in 2015, almost 2016 ROFL. I remember in 2007 PC gamers were benchmarking Crysis at 1920x1200.
 
To me this just screams companies deliberately crippling performance from the start. By adding performance available to devs at a later date than launch seems like it was always kept in reserve for its mid life reawakening. Unfortunately with the resurgence of PC becoming a major gaming platform it seems they have been forced to eek out every extra bit of performance they can find.

Nah, they had the overhead on processor affinity. this actually makes sense to actually make the games run as fast as possible and allows the OS and other high cpu applications required for optional functions to not interfere with games. processor affinity has been used since the 1980's.
 
Basically what im hearing is. consoles would be much better with the same hardware if the stupid things weren't trying to be a tv streaming internet surfing self broadcasting low powered pc..

Consoles for me died around the time of the ps2. all of them after that do seem to be trying to do more than a console should do. and if it means taking away potential gaming performance just so you can have a screen full of adverts to watch nethullutube then there will never be a good console ever again.

I hope that they eventually figure out that a computer is so adept at what it does because you can configure it to do what you want. And this could cost an awful lot of money, but people are willing to do that because of, versatility and backwards compatibility, and then you have the fact that general usage % of a computer is pretty high in terms of hours per yer. much higher than a console, whether its gaming, forums, doing work, photo editing "whatever people do with a computer"

Consoles have 1 purpose. They sit under the t.v and are an easy switch on insert game and play platform.
as far as i'm concerned they should go back to cartridges. With the advances in solid state long term memory these days (even just looking at class 6 SD cards) they could easily contain all the game data needed for a console class game on a single cartridge not bigger than an old cassette tape.
Then you just plug in switch on and play the game like the good old days.
Obviously this would be more expensive for the manufacturers. And they would actually have to finish a game without leaving it full of bugs before they sold it, couldn't have micro transactions or downloadable DLC.
But at least consoles would be worth having again.
Hell i might even buy a console if the games were in that format. and I wouldn't mind if it had basically a bulldozer cpu and a HD 7870 for a GPU.
I wouldn't care if the games had lower textures than the same thing on the pc.
Because all the dumb thing would be for is to sit round the tv with friends and have some casual games..
I happily play games like super bomber man multiplayer still.

I guess in that respect the wii was the best console of recent years. it was the only one that was still a console. But it had to go ruin everything with arm flailing pointless motion controls.
 
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