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curl-6 said:
Tachikoma said:

Minecraft is CPU bound on PC, so it runs pretty poorly on low end pc's and laptops, Minecraft draw distance on ps3/360 was greatly reduced and effects/lighting too, in order to hit 60fps, both xbo and ps4 versions are full 1080p 60fps with extended draw distance, effects and engine additions.

I still don't get why Minecraft is so demanding. What I played (on PC) was essentially a bunch of cubes with PS1 textures.

Mainly because they used java for the core, thats why the console ports perform well, because overall the game is pretty basic but for PC it is cpu bound with virtually no gpu acceleration, if they re-made it in c/c++ with actual gpu hardware acceleration it would run 60fps on pretty much every half decent pc.


http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Hardware_performance?cookieSetup=true

Scroll down to the benchmarkings, the higher framerates all being linked to high clockspeed cpus is extremely telling.