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It was announced publicly two months ago, in the Q3 letter to shareholders. What wasn't known was the scale of it.

Disclaimer: I work for Unity (and it was a hell of a week 😓) In the live fireside chat Marc Whitten said that we will be changing the TOS so that any future changes will only be applied from a particular version of Unity and not retroactively.

This is just taking into consideration the compression feature: source

Hello there ! I don't know if this is the right place to put this but anyway... shameless plug : a year ago i've published a long rambling about this new generation of consoles. In the past few days I've finally took the time to translate it the best I could in order ro reach more people so...

As far as I know, the demo is available to all registered PS5 developers, you can run it on the devkit and play with it.

Or you know, just respect the terms of a contract that you've agreed to for ten years ? Epic can dispute the AppStore fee but that doesn*t give them the right to unilaterally break a contract. Yes exactly : there are rules, law and regulations and until a court has stated that the AppStore fee...

You're underestimating most of these services while overestimating the app store : https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/20/18273179/apple-icloud-itunes-app-store-music-services-businesses $42 billion in revenue in a period of ten years is by no means insignificant but this is far from being the...

Services covers a lot more than just the AppStore, it's all their subscriptions services such as Apple Music, AppleTV+, iCloud, AppleCare, ApplePay/AppleCard

Of course you can, but not with the same level of details. The goal here is not to dismiss Nanite, it seems like a great technique I had just a problem with the idea that geometry is a solved issue while there are still many shortcomings at the moment. Nanite is not rendering billions of...

Not foliage or hair and only rigid bodies so no characters. Basically it's only useful for a very particular set of environments : city buildings or rocks Most games don't take place only in the desert, so at the moment it's a promising tech but far from a general solution. John Carmack talked...

Geometry is NOT a solved issue since Nanite is currently limited to rigid, opaque geometry. This is perfect for rocks or buildings but completely inadequate for foliage for example. Don't get me wrong : this is an exciting tech and a great first step in the good direction but still far from a...

It doesn't make any sense : an explicit low overhead API only helps in CPU limited cases, not in GPU limited scenarios where all API will have the same performance moreover in this case you're comparing API more than 10 years apart, here we're talking about DirectX12 which is mature and quite...

It's ugly but remember that a SDK is never pretty, for reference here is the Wii U SDK

Nope that's incorrect, async timewarp is done on the GPU as an async compute job on the PS4.

Xenos is only 216GFlops : the scalar ALU can't do MAD unlike AMD next VLIW5 design. So, compared to Xenos, Liverpool is more like 8 times faster in terms of ALU. Moreover, like you said GCN is more akin to approach its peak rate, there are serious limitations to vector/scalar co-issue on Xenos ...