The "30fps campaign, 60fps multiplayer" approach

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torok said:

curl-6 said:

I have a feeling the post was referring more to enthusiast PC gamers, not the kind who only play low-spec games. Conina beat me to it, but if we could somehow measure the average specs of those who play contemporary AAA games on PC, I'd guess most players would be using better-than-console hardware.

I agree. However, this would be a biased number. Basically all modern AAA games require a GTX660 at minimum, which is equivalent to PS4. So everyone playing those games will have a better hardware than consoles because if they didn't they would not be able to play it.

Also, the original post was about 60fps. In those game, it isn't quite easy to reach 60 fps, at least not without serious compromises regarding quality.

If we include everyone who's ever played a game on PC then yes, I agree, 60fps is clearly not the minimum, as plenty of casual players really don't care about framerates as long as they are playable.

Among enthusiast PC gamers though, 30fps is practically as dirty a word as "720p" was for console gamers back in the ResolutionGate days.

Running the majority of console ports at 60fps on PC doesn't require that high end a rig these days.