How the PS4 and Xbox have raised PC system requirement

[Ruler]

Captain_Yuri said:

Ruler said:

Captain_Yuri said:
This article is pretty terrible and shows that the author doesn't know much about PC gaming in general... The reason why SoM required 6gbs of vram is because that is for Ultra textures for 4k resolution and SoM runs pretty well in 2gb video cards on high settings...

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/shadow-of-mordor-performance,3996-3.html

And Ubisoft games have always been known to have bad porting when it comes to PC games, specially Unity. And for Far Cry 4, there is a fix in order to run ur games on a Dual Core CPU and it runs fine. And there are just so many other things wrong with this article like how they are using Alienware of all things to show PC gaming costs but every PC gamer knows that Alienware over prices everything

Not to say that the requirements havn't gone up but hes making it sound wayy worse than it really is

Tomshardware used a 200 bucks corei5 @4.6ghz with 8 gigs of ram for shadow of mordor who requires at least an i5. You have to take the whole picture into considuration thats where the author is ultimaticly right.

And yes alienware is overpriced but it doesnt change the fact that they try to compete with next gen consoles and are marketing as such, same way with all these low budget builds by various articles and videos saying they can build the same future proof rig like a next gen console for the same money. I think its lying to costumers and people unintenial or not,

If you want a future proof rig that can handle console ports in the future you will need at least a quadcore with hyperthreading or better yet an 6 or 8 core and 8 gigs of ram as well a decent graphicscards with 2 gigs of ram. And by doing that you will spent more, somthing these people and alienware want to overshadow.

You do realize that the requirements for SoM is very skewed right? And not to mention that if u have an i5 2500k from 2011, you will be able to play every game in this generation without even thinking about upgrading anything soon... An i5 isn't as big of a deal as you think it is cause a lot of cpus that are under an i5 can run SoM very well

So as you can see there that SoM can run very well even with an i3 or AMD cards. So if an i3 without any bottlenecks can run SoM at ~100fps and a 280X can run it at 60fps in high quailty... You should be able to run SoM pretty easily...

And yes, you do have to spend more money on PCs and a PC that costs $400 won't have the same performance as a console that costs $400 at the sametime, you don't need like a $2000 pc to be able to run games nor will u need that in the future nor do you have to consistantly upgrade ur PC either unless u want a crazy amount of mods.

And seriously? At most, you will need an i5 2500k and you will be set for this generation, anything else is just extras and for mods... You do need an 8 core AMD cpu for the AMD side cause AMD cpus are aweful and they can't keep up even with an i5 or i3s in some cases.. And PCs had 8gbs of ram since forever... And a lot of GPUs have 2gbs of Vram and they had that for a while now too. Do the people that have a dual core and 4gbs of ram and 1gb gpu need to upgrade to play next gen games? Yes but do ps3/360 owners need to upgrade to play ps4/x1 games? Yes... And the upgrade isn't as harsh as u seem to believe it is

That chart you show is has an nvidia gtx 780ti in it a 400$/€ graphicscard and its for 720p not 1080p, so alot of the work does the gpu there in all fearness.

And yes youre forced to upgrade your pc after 4-5 years. I have a corei7 the original 920 with 6gb of ram tripple channel, both seem to be fine now. But my graphicscards are 2x260s in sli, the gtx 260 is a much much stronger graphicscard what the ps3 has yet just because its not dx11 i wont be able to run almost any new game.

The ps3 and xbox 360 to this day get still ports from new upcoming games who will require dx11 on pc. Games like the evil within wont run because its a dx10 graphicscard in my computer despite having a corei7 cpu. While the ps3 got a version of the evil within having technicaly a dx9 gpu, the nvidia gtx 7800. I build my pc in 2009 by the way. 

I dont see a point why i should upgrade my graphicscard for 300€ instead just buying a 400€ ps4 that costs pretty much the same and gives me tons of exclusives and physical media support.