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goopy20 on 14 December 2019
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Conina said:
goopy20 said:

People here make it sound like the minimum pc requirements are some kind of vague concept that's open to interpretation, but it's literally what's written on the back of a box when you buy a pc game. When Ryse came out as a launch game for the Xbox One, the minimum requirements for the pc version was a GTX 660 and it's been pretty much the same for 95% of the multiplatform games that came out ever since.  

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/ryse-son-of-rome-lowers-recommended-pc-system-requ/1100-6422155/

Or look at Dirt Rally. It's no cross-gen game, it only was released for PC, PS4 & XBO in December 2015:

Or Watch_Dogs:

Or Fallout 4:

And let's not even mention very popular 8th gen games like Overwatch, Rocket League, Ori and thousands of other great games with less performance needs.

Additionally, minimum PC requirements are some kind of vague concept that's open to interpretation, since they don't give the information, which resolution and minimal/average framerate and other settings the publisher had in mind, when they printed that recommendation onto the box (in most cases).

There are whole Youtube channels dedicated to showing games running waaaay under their "minimum" requirements: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQkd05iAYed2-LOmhjzDG6g

Fair enough, there were some titles that didn't require 660GTX minimum in 2014. But there were still plenty that did like: Arkham Knight, BF4, MGS5 etc. The fact is that in 2013 very few people had a 660GTX and 460/560GTX cards were pretty mainstream before the ps4/Xone launched. However, when current gen started in 2014 most pc gamers upgraded to a 6xx or 7xx GTX. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=98&v=wHTdnIviZTE

I'm sure people can get games to run on lower spec pc's than the minium requirements, but generally speaking, developers use those minimum requirements to prevent customers from complaining if their game runs and looks like crap on anything lower.