What 2013 offers that lacked in 2012

Many gamers were quite pleased with the release of 2012 games like syndicate and unveiling of what we thought at the time was the best gaming experience ever. Well it is gone and we have seen what it had to offer however 2013 is really promising and we will see why.

2012 saw the release of games like Metal Gear Solid; Rising, Brothers in Arms, Strike Suit Zero, Prototype 2, Max Payne 3 and many more intriguing games. I must say game developers really had a wonderful year with release of all those titles you can imagine of the sales. Some  of those games were not as original as we expected a good example is Prototype 2 that can be well said to be James Heller’s version of the first title although with some new features. I am quite optimistic that 2013 offer not only unique gameplays but high end gaming graphics in the game releases. We are only halfway and the star is shining bright with release of games like Metal Gear Revengeance( I was really waiting for this one), Tomb Raider and Bioshock Infinite. We have already tasted what 2013 has in store for us and there still more titles to forestall, the likes of Watch Dogs, Final Fantasy XV and Titanfall.

PC gamers were not overly overwhelmed by the Graphic cards released by Nvidia and ATI in 2012. Nvidia released the Kepler that had been delayed from 2011. The Kepler cards that succeeded the Fermi architecture and that used a 28 nm production process had really caught the eyes of many who were awaiting their release before Christmas. These cards really made a show last year, the cards triple the dual-precision floating performance pf Fermi to hit up to 6 dp GFlops. That was last year, this year Nvidia is expected to release the Maxwell that will feature more than double the performance of the kepler with 14-16GFlops.

Last year saw the release of only one major console and that was the Wii U. It is powered by an IBM Power based Multicore Processor that is embedded with DRAM and clocks at  !.2GHZ. It is rumored

to be 50% more powerful than the PS3 and so close to the Next gen Xbox. Its GPU is based on AMD Radeon High Definition and it has a RAM of 2GB with 1GB allocated to system functions. This year we expect to be amazed with the release of two very powerful consoles. Sony and Microsoft release their consoles this year that are the PS4 and Xbox One respectively. Many say that this time Sonyh have really outdone Microsoft with the PS4 specs. The PS4 is said to be running at a memory of 8Gb GDDR5 while the Xbox One at 8GB GDDR3.

It is evident that 2013 is very promising and we are still yet to see what the year has in store for us.