How the PS4 and Xbox have raised PC system requirement

[vivster]

sc94597 said:

vivster said:
It's definitely not getting cheaper for PC gamers. Most of the current gen games run like shit on ultra and high end cards. We're not gonna have much fun until the devs try to code proper for PC.

We can't even think about 4K right now without massive graphical downgrades and multi GPUs. Wouldn't be surprised if we're still not at 4k in 5 years with single GPUs.

I take it you hadn't built a PC when the PS360 released? An 8800 GT (high-end card) cost about $350 (GTX about $450) and the card couldn't run Crysis (a 2007 game) at much more than medium-high, 900p, 30fps. The cards today run their respective games fine, in retrospect.  

 

Crysis is a horrible example for anything. But if you want to play that game.

Crysis 3, a 2 year old game, does a maximum of 40 fps on ultra 1080p with a GTX980, aka the strongest single GPU on the market right now. That one will set you back over $500 without even reaching 60fps.

How is that cheaper?

Or we're reasonable people and take some of the better optimized games and not some code that Crytek shat into a text editor.

Far Cry 4 and DAI were some of the better running games and still; a 970 is minimum requirement if you want to run it at a stable 60fps on ultra in Far Cry 4. DAI is a bit worse with a 980 barely reaching 60fps on average.

This is just the start of the gen and there will be a lot of unoptimized shit that can't be run by any high end card. Nope it's definitely not cheaper. Then again, if you want cheap, why use a PC?