PS4 Version of Metal Gear Has Atmosphere Simulation

still a $39.99 four hour game with less than an hour of gameplay

Doesn't Far Cry 3 do that already? Another reason why I like the game so much.

Maybe it's not a coincidence Far Cry 3 and FSX are my most-played games. Having a weather system within the game is always a nice touch which both have.

The lower vis when it rains in Far Cry 3 have an effect when I use a sniper rifle.

So... it's a complicated skybox?

I can't wait for the hyper-realistic rain puddles.

I thought Hard Reset already did some decent ones. Too bad the YT compression blurred out the splash of rain on the puddles.

lmao lemmings downplaying this.

Well yes, Kojima just saying "atmospheric simulation" and nothing more is vague. Technically any game console can pull it off, but to what degree?

It could eat up all the resources of any given system, or it could consume a very insignificant amount. Unless he's willing to be more specific we'll never know just how intensive it is. It all comes down to how accurate the simulation really is.

In any case, it still takes more processing power than a simple sky box which is nothing more than low res geometry with a low res diffuse map. Obviously the PS4 must have some processing muscle to spare if it's the only version of the four to utilizing this feature.

That's uhm......cool, Kojima.

....and still doing 1080p @ 60fps

Not a sky box, no. Not unless he's running a simulation and then baking the results to be projected onto a skybox and looped as an animated texture. I doubt that's the case because then there would be nothing stopping the other platforms from having it.

As I'm sure you know, a sky box is either a relatively gigantic cube, or half sphere in 3d space with a sky texture applied. Some developers get more elaborate and creative by animating the texture and/or geometry and sometimes layering multiple boxes/spheres animated at different speeds to produce some really cool effects.

Atmospheric simulation has no box. You have a "physical" sun, a calculated horizon and access to modifying the density and distance of haze. A lot of work has been put into these systems over the years utilizing real world data. If you want to set up a scene to look like it's July the 4th at 1:30 pm in Los Angeles, you can do so. Of course it's a rough generic average from data accumulated over the years, but it makes for a great starting point that you can easily modify and build upon. From there you can set up some default cloud parameters and allow them to run their course.

And wow I almost kept going, sorry for the long winded answer. Obviously I have no idea how accurate or intensive these simulations will be in MGS5, but it's a good deal more complicated than a sky box.

Yes. I'm sure that given enough time the Xbox One could pull it off all the same. I'm positive that it could. Obviously there will be much more impressive looking games on both consoles in the coming years.

However, this is just another example showing that the PS4 has some extra legroom whereas the Xbox One will take some extra effort to see similar results. When devs really start squeezing both of these systems the Xbox One will not be able to keep up. I know it's been said before, but I do believe that the fidelity difference will be a repeat of the original Xbox vs. the Playstation 2.

So the Xbone has 5,00+0 MB of ram? Let me guess, it's all cloud based? hahahaha

The Sky.

People look at how different the sky is and they go "OH MAN! NEXT GEN! PS4 ONLY!"

Let's forget the fact most of the game they showed looked near Identical to the other Versions.

Big deal, Morrowind did this 12 years ago.

@DarthBilf: Bluer sky ??????

ARE YOU SERIOUS ???

The power of GDDR5 at work ?!!

You are making GDDR5 sound weaker than it is.

PS4 HAS SKY SIMULATION AND XBOX ONE DOESN’T EVEN THOUGH EVEN THE PS3 AND XBOX 360 CAN RENDER IT !!

FFS

@PinkieWinkie: You are making me cry and you’re stubbornness is making you look good.

Oh oh..... It look like GDDR5 didn't stall the CPU like some wanted to believe,add true HSA design and the xbox one 100mhz mean sh** as this benchmark show,there are more to CPU that speed,specially if one system appear to be bottleneck.