AMD, the company behind the hardware system of the Xbox 360 has said the next version of the console will have the capabilities to produce graphic detail that could match James Cameron’s Avatar.
AMD did not confirm or deny that they are working on the Xbox but one must presume they must be otherwise why else would they make a claim like this? The director of ISV relationships at AMD went on to make one of the wildest predictions I have ever heard for the next generations of consoles:
“the A.I. and physics capabilities of the next-gen hardware will allow for every pedestrian in a game such as Grand Theft Auto or Saints Row to have a totally individual mentality, meaning when you shoot a gun or run someone over they don’t all just do the same thing. There will be no more mob mentality, where everyone just screams and runs away; every NPC will actually be an individual character.”
Of course it goes without saying that would be absolutely amazing to have that many individualized characters in a game at one time. Right now the video game industry has a hard enough time getting the A.I. right for just a few characters, imagine having every pedestrian in GTA with it, that is mind boggling. Although, giving the pedestrian a individualized mind and then having them disappear when they walk around the corner seems kind of cruel if you ask me.
I wish this was true because one of the things I think that needs to improve the most in the next generation of consoles is enemy A.I.
What do yu want to see improved on in the next generation of consoles graphics, A.I., or something else entirely?
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Gameplay?
For me it has to be story. Video games are still waiting for that one epic breakthrough game which has a story everyone wants to play. The key theme missing is romance…..yeah..I can hear laughter already. Titanic, Avatar, Gone with the wind had romance and made….make…cinema top dog. The first game to nail romance will nail the female and male demographic and games will take over as the key form of entertainment. Think Red Dead Redemption with Bonnie in s leader role with Marston, make it a love triangle and add a will she / he wont she / he choose her / him. Keep the action and all that the Xbox 720 might offer in terms of physics and you have a chance that video games move beyond cinema as the worlds key source of entertainment.
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I agree to some extent, that romance is mostly missing from video games – I think that’s actually the reason I loved Final Fantasy VIII-X. I didn’t notice there were huge romantic stories at the time, but looking back now, it did make the experience more complete.
Apparently the 720 is the most powerful computer mankind has ever produced. For example, Avatar required, according to Wikipedia, “a 10,000 sq ft (930 m^2) server farm making use of 4,000 Hewlett-Packard servers with 35,000 processor cores running Ubuntu Linux and the Grid Engine cluster manager”. Additionally, that AI boast would require supercomputer levels of processing power, and terabytes of RAM (which I admit is actually pretty feasible these days).