Assassin’s Creed Dev Says Industry Is Dropping 60fps

[kristianity77]

curl-6 said:

kristianity77 said:

Why is it sad that an more expensive PC can produce graphics better than a much cheaper console can?  I'm failing to see the logic here.  

Also, when was it "not like it used to be?"  

Pretty sure when the xbox 360 came out the PC already had games like Far Cry, Half Life 2 etc which were already quite a ways beyond what the 360 could initially do (if you had the system to run them well) and its no different this time around.  The only difference is there are more PC games now than there were in 2004 etc which PC gaming was still in a growing period.

The games so far this generation could not be done on an older system, without question so it is a step forward.  If your annoyed that a £320 console cannot out perform a PC that costs significantly more, then go and buy a PC and don't worry about it.  

To be fair, PS4/Xbone are not as high end for their time as PS3/360 were. Not that that's a bad thing; nobody wanted "$599 US dollars" all over again.

Yes but they dont really need to be.  When you consider "high end" this time around on a PC then you are factoring in resolutions thats the Xbox and PS4 dont even need to worry about such as 1440p and above.  High end on a PC these days is taking gaming above 1080p rather than on it or under.  PC gaming in the main is done on a monitor where by the minimum is probably 1080p these days and more often than not now go above and beyond that.  Console gaming is still I would guess done 99.9% of the time on a 720p tv or a 1080p TV and not a 4K screen which is the next logical step up.

At the end of the day, if a console, no matter what generation it is, can outperform a PC in a similar price bracket, then it is achieving what is has set out to do.  And you cannot replicate PS4 graphics, 1080p or 900p or whatever, on a PC which costs the same as a console.