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danasider on 03 October 2018
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Pemalite said:

PC has always been ahead of consoles. Always.

Whilst console gamers were just getting used to rudimentary pixel shaders, texture and lighting during the PS2/Gamecube/Xbox era... The PC was starting to experiment with the likes of Tessellation that wouldn't be common until this console cycle.

The PC also had 1080P back in the mid 90's.

4k back in the early 2000's.

I believe for the most part, consoles led the graphics in the late 80s and early 90s. Sure, Doom blew everyone's socks off, but most games on PC looked like dirt. And the console ports weren't that great. This was when dedicated graphics cards weren't popular. Yeah, technically, PCs were still more powerful, but the idea of every game looking better on PC like we have today didn't exist then. For a while, PCs big hits were MUDs, solitaire, and the like.

Talking both from experience and as an avid DF retro viewer. And only talking about the rule, not the exception (compared to now where it's the rule that PC games pretty much always have a better version unless the dev is lazy).