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Magnific0 on 23 December 2008
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Sri Lumpa said:
Magnific0 said:

OK. PC lovers (and RICH guys) had their fun already on this thread, now in all honesty, let's be FAIR.

Let's do a little exercise, shall we?


Take any game currently available for both HD consoles and PC, then run those games on a PC that matches both consoles in proccessing power and graphics card, same amount of VRAM and everything, then let's find out which system looks and runs better the same game.

Another part of the exercise would be if you could find some games for PC that meeting the requirements I wrote ^above^ match or surpass the best graphics a console can currently offer (ie. Gears 2, MGS4, Uncharted).

Would you be willing to do the same test for Wii/PS360 multiplat by neutering the PS360 to wii spec and then say "let's see who does best"? If not then why do you do it here?

It would be better to work on a price basis: How cheap can you make a PC that plays at the same IQ and framerate as a console? And here consoles win thanks to the $200 xbox 360 arcade.

Anyway, this thread is confirming two things for me:

1) PS360's are a poor man's gaming PC. Just like PS3 owners say people would buy PS3 if they could afford it, some are buying PS3 because they can't afford gaming PC's.

2) the graphical differences between current gen consoles and next gen consoles (PS4...) is not likely to be high enough to matter to anybody but an increasingly tiny minority of people who can actually see the differences. This is already the case between SD and HD this gen for a good part of the general populace but will be increasingly true for most of today's graphic whores too.

#2 also means that Nintendo has a good chance of totally obliterating the competition next gen as its next consoles is likely to be 2-3 times more powerful than the Ps3/360 (thanks to moore's law) so they will be able to have a bigger share of the core gamers that will not be able to see a difference between Nintendo's next gen and MS&Sony's next gen (the same crowd that cannot see the difference between this gen and more than half a gen forward already on the PC) while likely to retain the vast majority of the new gamers thanks to the brand they are forging this generation.

Because it's "been there, done that" ? it's called PlayStation 2 and still exists. And you don't have to strip a supercomputer to lower it PS360 level, just take any Core Duo processor of your taste and a not so powerful graphics card, let's say a little above of what the 360 has inside. You won't be able to run , not only Crysis, that would be a joke the way you'd have to play it, you wouldn't be able to run the same games available for those HD consoles like Gears of War, Devil May Cry 4, Prince of Persia, etc, not as well as PS360 can do it. It's a well-known fact.