kingofwale said: omg, i have a major deja-vu here... it feels like the whole "OMG, i can't even tell SD from HD TV".... but with sounds. ;) playing a 5.1 sound game with standard TV speaker means you are missing out a lot, much like playing HD content on SD TV. whether you admit you can tell the difference or not, it's there, and many MANY people do appreciated, regardless whether you know them or not. |
Nobody in this thread claimed such a thing. People can tell the difference, they just don't care enough to go out of their way to set it up. As for HDTV's, penetration is only so high because every new TV nowadays is HD, on top of them being far smaller than SD.
By the way, to the people talking about footsteps and whatnot - I simply don't care enough about winning console games for such things. Back in the CS days, I often played with headphones, though (who didn't?).