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Keith Kadera, Senior Animator & Games Consultant at Red Storm, joins to discuss gaming hardware & AAA development. Why are games delayed? What advantages do consoles have? Where are graphics going? [SPONSOR: dieshrink = 3% off games, brokensilicon = 25% off Win10: https://bit.ly/MoWin10Pro] 0:00 Who is Keith? What do animators and riggers do at AAA studios 5:11 What got you into this career? What games left an impact on you? 12:57 Early Professional Work - Savage Skies, the Ozzy Osbourne Flight Simulator 17:38 Ubisoft Games He Worked on - Ghost Recon, Rainbow 6, The Division 24:02 Biggest advantage the XBOX 360 over the XBOX? What made the PS3 difficult? 28:19 What has been the biggest hardware upgrade from PS3 - PS5? 34:17 Are AAA games still taking increasingly longer to make in 2021? 39:50 Does the PS5 or XSX have any "secret sauce"? 44:48 How long will Cross-Gen games be a thing? Are they holding Next Gen back? 55:07 How does AMD Sponsoring a game affect performance? 1:01:28 What do you expect in the PlayStation 6? 1:06:36 What's next for gaming realism? Can we do better than photorealism? 1:18:45 Biggest challenges in taking feedback? Was the BF2042 beta an "old build"? 1:28:23 Why are almost all AAA games delayed? Why can't devs plan accordingly? 1:38:28 Scaling UI with Resolution, 21:9 vs 16:9 Standards, Cross-Team Work 1:52:22 Is the era of exciting teaser trailers done? 1:57:17 What do people get wrong about Game Development? 2:02:33 How will we use AI/ML to enhance graphics? Advice for becoming a game dev? https://www.linkedin.com/in/kkadera/ https://www.redstorm.com/games What Keith learned to build games on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Yaroze https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Skies https://wccftech.com/new-far-cry-6-pc-console-comparison-shows-solid-performance-across-all-platforms-faster-loading-on-ps5-slight-resolution-advantage-on-xsx/ https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2021-far-cry-6-tech-review https://www.tomshardware.com/news/far-cry-6-benchmarks http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/12066/Microsoft-to-Epic-You-Cost-Me-a-Billion-Dollars https://www.mobygames.com/game/xbox360/gears-of-war https://time.com/6039381/yasuke-black-samurai-true-story/