lestat wrote:Have you seen unchartered 4? That's what god coders can do on limited hardware. Imagine if consoles were not underpowered this gen? You pc guys would be scared of us even more but you are lucky to still be around as more companies go console focused.
I'd be impressed if they actually achieved the 60fps and visuals they claimed at the official unveiling. They've produced an excellent looking game that matches ultra settings on a PC @ 30fps. Problem is their linear prebaked lighting allows them the ability to do it on weaker hardware and it only took them 4 years and several delays to do it, lots of other games/developers don't have this luxury to "hardcode".
You do realise now that the console market depends on PC advancement more than ever. Sony is too broke and Ms is not interested in creating custom cpus/gpus for hardware, it's all PC trickle down technology. The industry can never go console only focused, that would effectively cause it to scream to a grinding halt in terms of innovation.
You should thank the guys dropping 1k on graphic cards, they're the ones pushing things forward for your benefit and the industries benefit. All the lovely graphic techniques you see were born on PC thanks to nvidia/ati and their huge R&D budgets fueled by PC gamers. The console contracts for AMD are still money losers and nvidia refuses to do them because they don't make money on them.
ummmm no. Console are fine without the need for pc. They have survived quite well so far thank you very much.
The reason pc survives is because the content creators feel sorry for it and need it as a testbed for their less popular franchises that might be too risky to publish. You and Candy are just biased because you invest so much into pc. Not understanding that if the majrotiy of conent creators focus on console, it means the sequels to games end up looking stunted when they get ported to pc.
The old days were better. For instance when Dragon Age 1 came out, it just came out as a pc title which got scaled down to console. I would prefer this. But since more people are buying and paying for things on closed platforms, the developers target the kids on console. Which is why pc (unless you bother to keep upgrading and use it for other stuff like work in graphics) to me is not as good a gaming machine compared to previous times.
It wa a good attempt at defending pc master race but it reminds me of all those smug guys that thought FPS is only for PC gamers, before the arrivial of franchises like Halo on Xbox. Peoeple have gotten used to sitting back on a couch using sticks now and compete with each other using a crappier-than-mouse control system to aim. It's because console dominates. And EB games shelves prove it. Candy is just pissed I am right. Why would I need to play my pokemon or mario kart games on a pc when they don't even need the cutting edge tech you fools?
You only look at one aspect of wars (the specs) not the overall picture. If pc was so important because it is so far ahead of console in specs, then under that logic Vita support would not have dried up compared to 3DS.
The japanese market is different. And don't forget what happend during the ps2 era. People could have upgraded to Xbox but it came to market too late so MS had to abandon the ship early.
Times have changed. Now the convenience of consoles factors into things a lot more because some people want to play in the home theatre and on comfy couch on big screen not in front of a monitor. Now you could say that you can get pc there too, but pc is still clunky in interfaces, for example many games wer designed so your eyes must sit really close to the screen just to read the tiny text. It's a different experience. Sort of like watching bluray on pc near the screen vs going to a movie theatre in relaxing seat and seeing a movie on a big screen. Ie your eyes are further back from the screen to prevent you from ruining your eyesight because your lenses in your eyes are not strained when you want to look at something small or in the distance which is what you'd have to do on a small montor when playing for hours.
"A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad." -Shigeru Miyamoto
