| theprof00 said: Just remember that the steam survey showed that the large majority of pc gamers' pcs do not match xbox1 or ps4 power. |
Sure about that?
For one, 34.10% of video cards aren't even listed on Steam statistics.
Secondly, if a notebook uses optimus and Steam gathers the data, it will pick up the Intel GPU and not the nVidia one.
So the statistics are already skewed. :)
Thirdly, the next generation consoles will force many people to finally upgrade, even "free" graphics chips can run current console games perfectly fine with a 720P resolution @ 30fps or more.
Whenever a popular albeit demanding game is released, video card sales climb, aka. The "Crysis effect".
Heck, even today's crappy low-end Haswell Dual-Cores are faster than the 8-core Jaguar processors, that's not accounting for the fact that games won't even be able to use all 8 cores on the consoles anyway as 1-2 are reserved for the OS.
The current consoles have simply made the need to upgrade non-existent for many PC gamers, see what happens when the next generation of consoles launches, but as it stands today, a 6-7 year old PC is perfectly capable of playing pretty much all the multi-platforms at 720@30fps, provided they have at-least a modern $40 GPU.
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