Here is all you need to know to understand game development. It's just two things.
Firstly, on a home console there are just two playable frame rates: 30 fps and 60 fps. This means you can only have frames either less than ~16.6 ms or ~33.3ms long. The next step is 20 fps and if you were even allowed to ship a game like that it would not make any money so you would likely get fired anyway.
You will do very unsafe things to stuff as much as possible into a game's frame because your competition is already doing it and your designers demand it. There is only one thing you could possibly sacrifice a little bit of performance for - development time.
Thus there is this second thing: a game has to ship before you run out of money. The most common production time is about 18-24 months. This is for millions LOCs of source code and terabytes of source assets (textures, models, video, sound etc) written, often from scratch, and tested.
How long does it take to ship software for a new plane in your business? I'd be terrified to even approach a plane that had shipped in 1.5 years, least fly in it.
Firstly, on a home console there are just two playable frame rates: 30 fps and 60 fps. This means you can only have frames either less than ~16.6 ms or ~33.3ms long. The next step is 20 fps and if you were even allowed to ship a game like that it would not make any money so you would likely get fired anyway.
You will do very unsafe things to stuff as much as possible into a game's frame because your competition is already doing it and your designers demand it. There is only one thing you could possibly sacrifice a little bit of performance for - development time.
Thus there is this second thing: a game has to ship before you run out of money. The most common production time is about 18-24 months. This is for millions LOCs of source code and terabytes of source assets (textures, models, video, sound etc) written, often from scratch, and tested.
How long does it take to ship software for a new plane in your business? I'd be terrified to even approach a plane that had shipped in 1.5 years, least fly in it.