PC master race! Are you impressed by Uncharted 4's graphics?

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fatslob-:O said:

curl-6 said:

Of course software matters. But ultimately software is bound by the hardware it is running on. You can have beautiful games on PS4. You can have beautiful games on Wii U. Developers with great technical and artistic talent can work wonders with limited silicon. Games like Uncharted 4 and Mario Kart 8 are a testiment to this; working within your limits to create beauty with the tools available to you. Hell, Kirby's Epic Yarn is still one of the best looking games I've ever seen, and that's on the freaking Wii.

On the flipside though, with stronger hardware you can achieve technically superior results. There isn't anything on PS4 that could not be done on a high end PC, but you can do plenty on a high end PC that PS4 could not do.

Software is equally important as the hardware. PCs get outclassed by super computers all the time but nobody praises them over high end gaming PCs or consoles since practically no games are developed for it despite the nigh boundless computing power ... 

Software is indeed circumscribed by hardware but the same applies to the opposite end too ... 

Software improvements does have a ceiling but so does hardware if you didn't know ... 

Could or capable of is not good enough if you have crappy software, in fact all that extra power may as well have not existed at all if no one decided to put in any sort of R&D in computer science research ... 

Hardware that's a 1000x faster than the baseline is no better if the software on it runs a 1000x slower ... 

Except there is software that takes advantage of the extra power of PC via better-than-console settings for AA, resolution, filtering, draw distance, etc.