How is it that we have to go through this nonsense every week or two on what console power means? We haven't meaningfully added to that discussion in more than a year.
PC is more powerful than consoles...if you pay more than twice as much on hardware twice as often.
RAM adds a lot to graphics...for developers who have never heard of data compression.
Power is important!...for internet geeks like us. Not so much for everybody else.
Personal opinion: power after the PS2 generation was the worst thing which happened to gaming. Developers started spending more time rendering the nicks in the protagonist's armor than designing actual gameplay and content (much less competent enemy AI.) Up to the PS2, graphics were poor enough they could ruin immersion, but after that it really doesn't matter beyond some trailers to get sales. Gameplay and style are king.
Don't get me wrong. Pretty graphics are great, but games derive core value from gameplay, not blood splatter effects or anti-aliasing. Too often discussions about power completely miss this.
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