Next gen consoles will be maxed out within an hour
 

The Xbox 720 and PlayStation 4 will be maxed out by developers within an hour, Hitman: Absolution game director Tore Blystad has told Sound and Vision magazine.

"Every time you get a new piece of hardware, within an hour you max it out as a developer; that's just how it is," he explained. "You keep pushing it right to the max, every time a new system comes out you have to make a bucket for who is getting what from the memory and performance. Is the audio getting a lot? The animation? The A.I.? They're fighting for resources and this fight is very healthy because it will make people optimize the different elements of the game.

"Of course, it's great to get more power, but it's very quickly going to be sucked up by any kind of part of development. That's always the problem, right?"

http://www.videogamer.com/xbox360/hi...n_an_hour.html

For some reason, I really hate the name "Xbox 720".

I highly doubt the 1 hr rule.

Games at the end of a consoles cycle are notoriously killer compared to the first wave of games, ergo it takes years to refine and perfect and not just an hr....

Maybe I'm misreading this or missing some sort of point.

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It would be rather sloopy code to max a machines potential right out the box. But in a way he's right, you have to get better at divving up a machines resources. So in the end it's all about OPTIMIZING CODE.

1 hour...!

dont make me laugh, just compare between the first and nowadays games of PS3..
that **** takes 5 years to refine and optimizing the balance..

I just remembered the facts about the last Uncharted Game on the PS3, as the devs praised the awesome physics that a game on the PS3 has never seen before. And that was more than 5 Years after the PS3's launch!

I'm sure they can max it out in 1h. But the more efficient the code gets (and it will surely take A LOT MORE than just 1hr) the better results you get.