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Pemalite on 02 December 2012
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r3tr0gam3r1337 said:


you do know there is a technology called hyper threading plus looking at current PC hardware a quad core with HT is every bit as good as an 8 core, still one problem with multiple cores is heat generation.

my PC currently is running over 100 tasks and i only have a quad core, im sorry but i have to dissagree 8 cores are not needed its excessive to have 8 cores on a console a quad seams more realistic especially if it uses HT like the xenos on the 360 (a tri core with HT, 3 physical cores and 3 virtual cores giving it effectivly 6 cores).


Hyper threading does not replace a core, It simply allows for better utilization of a cores resources that would otherwise be idle.

It's a 10% performance improvement, that is it.

100 tasks on a quad core? I'm running a 6 core processor with Hyper Threading, try running 100 copies of Maya and watch your system crash and burn.
You could run a million tasks on a single core processor, if they were light enough it would be fine.

A quad core may be enough for you and enough for gaming, but don't pretend that there aren't more demanding things you can do on a PC. ;)

ninetailschris said:

Cry tech recently just said they barely got even.

wicher 2 said there considering 3 being on consoles because of illegal downloads being higher than actual sales and said they were disappointed with sales.

this people aren't doing anything amazing money wise and are barely making profit.


You missed the point completely. Crytek didn't start making games with Crysis, the Witcher 2 dev profited. The PC put them both on the map.
Blizzard is a PC only Developer, Blue Byte, Relic, Firaxis etc'.

Plus, on the consoles, you release a game, it gets big sales then falls into obscurity, on the PC a developer can release a game, get some good sales then a few years down the track have another sale and rake in millions more and hit the top of the charts.
Then 10 years on, they do another sale and hit the top of the best-selling charts, it doesn't fall into obscurity and is forgotten it's going to be a revenue stream for many many many years.
Heck a good example of this is the current HumbleTHQbundle. - http://www.humblebundle.com/
Most of the games in it are fairly old, but it's passed the 500,000 sold mark.




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