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Barozi on 28 March 2013
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If this is a console only multiplatform, then it'll be a loss. If it's available on PC, though, it really doesn't matter whether Wii U gets the game or not.


So I guess Watch Dogs on Wii U is pointless too? I'd recoken most/many Wii U owners don't have a high end gaming PC. 


It is pointless, as PC version will be better anyway and, also, cheaper. You don't need to have a high end gaming PC to be able to play games better than on consoles.

Not everyone buys a new PC every ~5 years though, because if you don't play games on it there aren't many reasons to upgrade. And even most of today's laptops under $1000 can't run games higher than 30FPS on medium settings. PC versions of multiplat games usually sell a bit below the 360 and the PS3 versions (even if it has a PC focus, such as Battlefield), so the amount of non-pirate PC gamers that have a decent enough rig to run last gen games is what ? 50-60m ?

So it's more like the PC version that is pointless because the majority of people will get it elsewhere.

Most games cannot be enjoyed on low settings. That's why the most successful games on PC don't have advanced graphics or can be adjusted down without losing anything important, so "everyone" can play it. Minecraft, World of Warcraft, Diablo 3 etc.

Watch Dogs on low settings would probably look like San Andreas (dramatized).


If you bought a mid-range PC 5 years ago(2008), you would have a Phenom X3/Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB DDR2 RAM and a PCI-E compatible motherboard. You would just need to buy a new graphics card to be able to play new games on high settings.

My rig has tech from 2008, it's a Phenom X3 8650 2.3GHz and has 2GB RAM DDR2. I have a GTS 450 on my PC and almost every new game I buy I can play on high settings at 768p and >40FPS. Altough sometime you will need to upgrade your entire PC, after 5 years I can still play games on high changing only my GPU. If you bought a mid-range PC back in the day, you could still upgrade your processor(to a Phenom II or Core 2 Quad) and RAM without needing to change the motherboard(and thus the whole PC) if extra performance is needed to run new games. If you buy console games for 5 years, the extra money you spent on them would probably be enough to upgrade your PC thanks to the price difference.

I agree with the part that most games cannot be enjoyed on low settings, but thanks to how long this gen has dragged on, you'll only have problems running games on high/medium settings if your PC is too old, has an Atom processor or both. Also, Minecraft and Diablo 3 are quite taxing on the PC, you won't run those easily with a old PC.

Which is all fine and right, but this is the time where games improve a lot faster than before. I doubt you can run BF3 on high settings. MGS V has a completely new "next gen ready" engine and Watch Dogs also looks rather advanced. GTA V is likely going to be just as unoptimized for PC as GTA IV was.
From there on it's only going to get "worse" for such old PCs.

Also only 2 GB RAM ? I know several games that need far more than that on high settings. (Still running XP ?)