The mobile market shows the danger of parity

[VanceIX]

gergroy said:

VanceIX said:

gergroy said:

PC is a TERRIBLE example to use.  Are you saying that PC games should be optimized for only the high end systems?  That would eliminate like 80% of the pc gaming market.  Developers are smart to keep their requirements lower on PC's, it doesnt really have anything to do with consoles at all...

Where did I say that? PCs have multiple settings for a reason, I hope you realize. Yes, devs should optimise for the best hardware, and then allow the visual quality to be downgraded BY THE USER if the user is unable to play the highest setting on their PC. 

Basically meaning that the majority of the pc gaming community would have to settle of an unoptimized piece of garbage with all the settings turned down at the expense of the minority.  

Do you own a gaming PC? When you downgrade, of course it looks worse, what do you expect? That doesn't mean it looks like a mess. A recent example is Star Citizen. Optimised for high-end cards, but looks and plays just fine on medium-specced cards on lower settings. When you lower the quality, you don't magically lose optimisation, you just make it look like what it would on consoles, or what your hardware is capable of.