| Salnax said: I just find it funny that the "next generation" has arrived and the console with the most impressive specs seems to be having trouble meeting a mark that PC gamers are already taking for granted, and are starting to look past. 1080p is the standard resolution for a PC game nowadays. According to Steam, about a third of PC gamers use a 1080p monitor, a number greater than the entire sub-720 club combined. 30 FPS is something to be taken for granted, and is simply not considered enough for a lot of games. If the most powerful console on the market has a well-made, not hugely complex game made for it, and it has trouble meeting that mark, what's the console/PC difference going to be like in five years when PC gamers switch to 1440p as a standard? Especially since this is not even truly "high-end" PC Gaming. A PC roughly on par with the PS4 will cost $1000, sure, but will have free online, far more applications, cheaper games, and a non-theoretical form of backwards compatibility. |
I had a gaming PC when the xbox 360 came out and it had 512MB or video memory, around 1GB of RAM and my monitor as 1920*1200 (I'm not bragging here, this was a period of my life when I played a lot more on PC) it wooped the floor with both the 360 and the PS3, together... even back then multiplatform titles could be played at higher resolution with slightly better textures (not as drastically better as now, but they were better) and frame rates, with AA on good PCs.
So when computer monitors started to settle at "full HD" I felt betrayed, because this is a stupid resolution to use on a computer (those extra few pixels really let you put more tools at the top of your screen), generally PC games let you pick the screen ratio as well as resolution, according to your specs...
Now, we have a lot of people playing on PC with a lot of different settings, ranging from laptops with mediocer screen and integrated GPU that can barely move windows around... to those yealding triple Titans or whatever is the top end card right now driving some 4K screen or a high performance 120+hz gaming monitor, which is all amazing... until you look at the bill for it! and for having been a PC gamer for a long time, someone who tried to keep up while at it, I would say that now I am happy with my consoles, and I still want my eye candies and I still want to be able to discuss those aspects! too bad if some people consider it inflamatory...
