NVIDIA Ansel

[Livilda]

So, Square-Enix, any big plans for Nvidia's new Ansel technology? For those who don't know, at today's keynote, Jen Hsung showed off an in-game camera technology called Ansel, which allows you to move your camera freely and take super high-res (32X res!!!) screenshots, as well as 360 screenshots which you can look at with your phone, Google Cardboard, or a VR headset.

I want to know if this is going to be available for Final Fantasy XIV.

That is all.

[Saccharin]

If it's just been announced you can't expect the devs to have even discussed it never mind made a decision about it.

[RobbieH]

If it's just been announced you can't expect the devs to have even discussed it never mind made a decision about it.

This game uses nVIDIA Gameworks, so i wouldn't be surprised that at some point Ansel is implemented, please look forward to it.

[Ashkendor]

PS3 limitations ;w;

[SigmaOZ]

PS3 limitations ;w;

That excuse is old by now, I'm pretty sure Square Enix can add new game features like Ansel whenever they apply!...

You don't want to miss on things like Ansel!?... Then throw away your useless PS3 and get a PC!...

[Vivi_Bushido]

That excuse is old by now, I'm pretty sure Square Enix can add new game features like Ansel whenever they apply!...

You don't want to miss on things like Ansel!?... Then throw away your useless PS3 and get a PC!...

PS4 Limitations and soon XBoxOne Limitations.

The excuse isn't old. It's an endless cycle reborn within the next gen consoles. Face it. As long as this game is on consoles with cross platform capabilities for online play; it's never going to get nice things like Ansel unless the consoles can acquire it to. It's for this reason why mods and parses are against the ToS; yet they still allow you to use them at your own risk. It's not that the company is against them per say. Just that they're trying to make everything fair for all of their customers. They don't want to allow only half of their consumers to be granted nice features and screw over the other half simply for playing on the wrong platform. They would lose subs like that.

[LineageRazor]

Face it. As long as this game is on consoles with cross platform capabilities for online play; it's never going to get nice things like Ansel unless the consoles can acquire it to.

SE have already shown themselves willing to implement stuff on one platform but not on others (or in a degraded capacity). PS4's shiny floors, for example, were never a thing on PS3, and don't forget about the half-sized WXHB PS3 got. So crying "console limitations" is, as usual, nonsense.

Will PS4 and XBoxOne support eventually start to "hold back" the game? Perhaps - but it won't be for meaningless fluff features like Ansel. If SE considers it a feature worth putting into the game, and whose profits will outweigh the development costs, they'll add it for PC.

[Akira]

if this is all about fairness they should just lock fps down to 60 fps then for everyone as those with higher end pc's will have a slight advantage due to the fps there getting if there monitor supports it. also pc has access to chat programs and guides on the web etc if they were to make it truely fair this game would be 60 fps locked and forced fullscreen and alt tab disabled on pc. ansel is in no way an advantage like that it just for screenshots

[Saccharin]

if this is all about fairness they should just lock fps down to 60 fps then for everyone as those with higher end pc's will have a slight advantage due to the fps there getting if there monitor supports it. also pc has access to chat programs and guides on the web etc if they were to make it truely fair this game would be 60 fps locked and forced fullscreen and alt tab disabled on pc. ansel is in no way an advantage like that it just for screenshots

ROFL, you think fps (17ms) over 60 gives an advantage. Such nonsense.

[Misiek]

I know this post is old, but any new news on that. I really would love to take 360 pictures.