| captain carot said:
With PC-HW getting more and more features like 2D acceleration, 3D acceleration, more and more capabilities like HW-T&L, shaders... that slowly vanished, though fast hardware stayed expensive. |
The PC was always ahead of consoles, I was part of the "3D revolution".
As soon as 3dfx burst onto the scene with the 3dfx Voodoo... The PC was ahead starting in the mid 90's, especially with games that utilised the GLIDE API.
When the Voodoo 2 launched in the late 90's, we were able to have multiple graphics cards in a system. Aka. SLI which allowed PC gamers to run games at higher resolutions, even console ports like Final Fantasy 7 and 8 or Turok, with better texturing and filtering.
Before that... Whilst people were playing with 2D consoles... Aka. Before the Nintendo 64, Playstation or Saturn... PC was already enjoying full 3D textured graphics with games like Descent.
We also had Sound Blaster. We had *full* Audio, which was absolutely huge back then.
The PC was then the first platform to jump to TnL. Then Pixel Shaders. Then Unified Shaders.
Heck... We had Graphics cards capable of Tessellation back in the Direct X 8.1 days. - Aka. the Original Xbox/Playstation 2/Gamecube era.
The PC even had 1080P monitors in the mid 90's. 20 years before it's "almost" a standard on consoles. ;)
Turok PC vs Nintendo 64. (PC Has better graphics.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQEOv3t4tm0&fmt=18
Final Fantasy 8 PC vs Playstation 1. (PC Has better graphics.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWhTWBsQaVk
Quake PC vs Playstation 1. (PC has better graphics.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDqLaGkiDcQ
Doom. PC vs SNES. (PC Has better graphics.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-jLUsWl9mY
I even remember seeing comparisons of Mechwarrior 2 running on a PC under GLIDE beating out the Sega Saturn version too.
Overall. PC has always had a technical edge.
--::{PC Gaming Master Race}::--
