How the PS4 and Xbox have raised PC system requirement

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Ruler said:

Captain_Yuri said:

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.

The point of the benchmark is to show that when there is no bottleneck for the CPU, that is the fps that you will be recieving... And resolution doesn't have significant impact on CPU performance. The chart simply shows that a cpu like an i3 will not be a bottleneck when it comes to SoM. Whatever bottleneck there is will be your GPU or something else.

Also, yes, a 780Ti costs a lot but again, the point of that chart was to show a cpu benchmark, not GPU.. The point that I am getting at is that an i3 + 280X can run SoM fairly easily in high settings which is shown on the benchmark. Yes, you won't be getting perfect results but the results will be close enough

And yes, the ps3 is getting some ports but thats what happens in a transition period... A lot of gaming PCs are direct X 11 capable and they have been for a very long time now hence why developers aren't bothering too much with dx9 and soon enough, there won't be any cross platform games either so it overall won't even matter soon enough. And if you follow PC gaming, its pretty easy to see the DX11/DX12 will be here to stay for a very long time and Nvidia has already stated that all DX11 GPUs will be getting a free DX12 update so stuff like that won't happen. And not to mention that Dx12 will be bringing much more "console level" optomizations to PCs with sigifinatly less overhead than DX11 which = more performance for games that decide to use it.

And PCs in general offer much more things than consoles do. Apart from the countless things that a PC can do other than being able to play games, Steam offers sales where 6500 games go on sale as well as AAA games that are releases a couple of months ago go on sale for 50%+. And not to mention how much other features that it has which are free that PS+/XBL require u to pay for. And of course, it has backwards compatiblity so that as you upgrade, you can still play ur old games unlike what you can do with a ps3/ps4/360/x1. Sure, you can keep ur ps3/360 but eventually, they will either break or get lost and you wouldn't be able to play those games on ur ps4/x1 unless u get another ps3/360. And there are plenty more benefits to PC gaming like mods and etc which you should be aware of since you are a so called "former pc gamer"