Have we hit the technology wall?

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Legend11 said:

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I've noticed some people mentioning how outdated the 360/PS3 will seem in a year or two by the games coming out on PC. Well I have a surprise for you, that won't be the case because it will be very uncommon. Simply put games like Crysis are going to be very few and far between and games of the graphic level of 360/PS3 are going to make up the vast majority of games on both PC and console. Why? Because of the piracy situation on PC and the fact that the vast majority of PCs simply don't have cutting edge hardware.

Companies like Id, Epic, and many other PC developers are making multi-platform games in which the PC versions don't look significantly better than their 360/PS3 counterparts. Take Bioshock, The Orange Box, and Unreal Tournament 3, although there are people talking about how superior the PC versions are, in all those cases it's not because the graphics are vastly better, it's because of mods or the ability to design new levels or the input device used.

People can feel free to buy a quad core cpu and multiple videocards but they're kidding themselves if they expect to see many games that take advantage of them. Or that in one or two years all the games they'll be playing on their systems will make the games on the 360/PS3 seem "archaic and quaint". Consoles are calling the shots now and we're not going to be see any decent amount of games that make the 360/PS3 look dated until their successors come out.

I'm sure those new fangled 3D games like Wolfenstien will never be hit it big and the 2nd half of the 1990s will stick to old tech. Because as we all now consoles were the first ones to jump on the FPS bandwagon Halo 1 first came out.

After all,  PC gaming died in the 90s M I RITE? No, not even close. Consoles stuck mostly to old school types of games while PCs were giving us jaw dropping FPS after FPS. That was PC gaming's strongest era. Why? They were pushing tech. 

Id has always been primarily focused on PC, Epic just proved with the superior version of Gears who gets the prime version and who gets the slop.  Mass Effect ...coming soon to PC, only bigger and better ... If you think Lucasarts is going to dumb down Star Wars for the PC I don't even know what to say. Have you even seen the tech demos for Alan Wake and the new Star Wars game for PC? 

On the PC pushing tech is not a fad, it's a gaming rule of law. 

Orange box is using an engine (source) from 2002/2003. Bioshock dx10 looks a LOT better on PC. Unreal Engine 3 (if Gears is any indication) is the same as Bioshock, CoD4 isn't even hi def on 360 It's already happening.

The thing this tech has been out over a year, Crysis is just PC's way of saying "we're back." This caliber of games are coming and will be more common. Consoles will start getting the "Wii version" of PC games like they did in the late 90s.

Sure some games will be multi platform, but the the PC version will be the superior one.  

It's a tech shift, it's going to be pushed constantly in the PC gaming world. It happened in the mid 90s, and it's happening again now.  

Here's a rambling maniac about directx 10, but he is smart.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7aPvedU7cI&feature=related

He just hit on the graphics stuff, but I'm sure you can see the implications. They can now do a hell of a lot more with a hell of a lot less horsepower. We're going to see games with a whole new level of scope and depth, and also easier to pull off than before. 

Computer gaming has ALWAYS been about pushing the limits. Consoles are definitely NOT calling the shots now, especially in a generation when the PC wannabe consoles are getting curb stomped by the Wii.  

 

I thought this was funny. PC Gamer offers random people in the PS3 line a $7500 PC to never buy a PS3.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gQAsiHOyII&feature=related

Only difference is now that question has been cut by $7,000 and you can get the PS3 anyway.

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/$500_gaming_pc_upgrade/default.asp

 

This is one of those things you're going to have to research some more, because it's obvious you don't know anything about the PC world.