| PotentHerbs said: Lol I already paid for my system so I could care less about it being "outdated". I can't see developers wanting to jump to 4K gaming yet anyway.. |
It's a cart before the horse type of thing. Naturally games developed for Windows (since this is really what we mean when we say PC) have scalable resolutions, but no developer optimizes their games to run at X resolution, unlike on consoles. So developing a PC game specifically to run on a 4k display would make almost zero sense, even years from now. You can run any game at any resolution, if your hardware supports it, but developers don't design games to be run at ultra high resolutions.
It's understood that performance for individual games on PC is really up to the user based upon their system specs, which in term influence how PC game developers wish to optimize their games, or at least set the minimum and preferred specs. Most developers want as large a potential userbase as possible, so those minimum specs can't be "Nvidia Titan" otherwise they would have a tiny pool of buyers for their game.
One of the last games that was developed for future spec PCs was 2007's Crysis and they eventually managed to shoehorn that game (using a console optimized version of CryEngine) onto PS3/XB360 specs, albeit at pretty reduced visuals, but playable nonetheless.
What the "out of date" peanut gallery fail to acknowledge, and they pop up the instant the specs are released for any console because the successors to the GPUs used on said consoles are already announced by ATI/Nvidia by the time the consoles hit shelves, is that the majority of consumers gaming on PCs don't upgrade their VGA cards on an annual basis. Or even every other year. Hell, most gamers on PC are using laptops; only a small percentage actually games on a desktop PC and only a portion of that userbase builds their own optimized gaming PC.
So yeah. If you can get 5-6 years out of a console, and history shows that same console will actually see continued developer support beyond that, using GPUs or hardware designs from 5-6 years ago is completely irrelevant. Does it still play current games? Are new games still be released for it? If the answer is yes and yes, most people won't bother upgrading consoles. "Out of date" is a meaningless term.
