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by obl 3420 days ago
xbox
1 comments
corysama 3420 days ago
Concrete example: The PS4 dashboard is actually WebGL via Chromium (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIhtcUvi0BQ&t=55m25s) I don't think PS4 supports OpenGL, DX or Vulkan. Sony has their own API.
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snuxoll 3420 days ago
Sony has historically supported a variant of OpenGL on the PS3 (in addition to their low level API) - I would be surprised if they don't have one for the PS4.
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corysama 3420 days ago
I worked on PS3. PSGL is the half-truth rumor that refuses to die. It was an experimental GLES1.0 with Nvidia's Cg shaders as an extension. I don't think any games actually used it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSGL

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pjmlp 3420 days ago
Besides what corysama replied, there are a few game blogs that described how bad it was, but I cannot link to them as I am behind a proxy currently.
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