Scoobes on 10 February 2015
There's been a minor jump in required specs, but nowhere near as bad as the author makes out. 8GB RAM? Quad core CPUs? Some games were requiring specs like these 3-4 years ago. I think GTA IV needed a quad core CPU.
For comparison, I finished my PC build in early 2013 for relatively cheap and it's currently running all the games I throw at it at higher res and performance than the PS4, and certainly much better than the X1. At the start of last gen my reasonably priced PC was chugging along, struggling to play anything and required a couple of upgrades just to run to console fidelity.
