{"id":28376,"date":"2015-08-31T14:54:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T19:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=28376"},"modified":"2015-08-31T14:54:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T19:54:58","slug":"experienced-points-what-does-the-end-of-moores-law-mean-for-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=28376","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: What Does the End of Moore&#8217;s Law Mean for Gaming?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My column this week is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/video-games\/columns\/experienced-points\/14544-Moore-s-Law-Slow-of-Better-Circuits-Effects-On-Modern-Gaming?utm_source=latest&#038;utm_medium=index_carousel&#038;utm_campaign=all\">described perfectly by its title<\/a>. I always get nervous writing about hardware. I&#8217;m not a hardware guy and I&#8217;m more likely to make factual blunders in that area. <\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t get into it in the column, but it&#8217;s sort of unfortunate the consoles launched when they did. They&#8217;re just barely (in Moore&#8217;s terms) short of the power needed to handle 60fps games and VR. Another eighteen months might have fixed that problem. Then again, nobody realized 60fps was going to be a big(ish) deal, and it would be suicide to show up to the market 18 months after the competition. You don&#8217;t want to launch a next-gen console into a market where everyone already has a next-gen console and several games. You either want to launch at about the same time and at roughly the same power level, or you want to launch several years later when you can have a nice technical advantage. <\/p>\n<p>Or you can do what Nintendo does and put out an &#8220;under-powered&#8221; console and focus on gameplay instead of technology. But that&#8217;s crazy talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My column this week is described perfectly by its title. I always get nervous writing about hardware. I&#8217;m not a hardware guy and I&#8217;m more likely to make factual blunders in that area. I didn&#8217;t get into it in the column, but it&#8217;s sort of unfortunate the consoles launched when they did. They&#8217;re just barely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}