So...This is Awkward (NBA 2K21 PC Version)

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CGI-Quality said:

KBG29 said:

Per the rumors the Series S has a lot of tech that more than 99% of consumer PCs don't have right now. It has a Ryzen 8 Core/ 16Thread CPU and a Decicated I/O Block that is equivelent to 5 additional Ryzen Cores. It is also utilizing PCIe 4.0, and a much fatser SSD than the majority of people have in their PC.

I am not saying that the PC is not capable, it is just that it will require a lot of specialized work to brute force PC to the levels of even the Series S in CPU and I/O. Levels that are simply not possible on current PCs with Intel CPUs and Motherboards. It is too small of a market to build to at the moment. 

Series S will not hold back next gen if the rumors are true. It has the same CPU, I/O, and SSD as the Series X. The only difference is that the RAM, Memory Bandwidth, and GPU have been blanced for 1080/1440 as opposed to 4K. 

Anytime you read "this has 99% more tech than that", it's often up for debate or not true. 

We usually hear how consoles will have some special ways of working that PCs can't match at the start of a new gen. Happens every time and folks like you lap it up. Ex: "The cell is revolutionary and PC processors won't match it". Meanwhile, nothing of the sort happened.

Yes, the SSDs in the PS5 and Xbox Series X are fast  and will be used in ways that are game changing (even though the latter's trades speed blows with some of the ones already in people PCs today, with and without PCIe Gen 4 — including my rig), but if you think it's going to take some Jesus Juice to allow the PC to "keep up", you will be wrong. Whether it is at launch or four years down the road. And I know the Series S won't hold next gen back — that was aimed at your ideas here. If you agree about the Series S (which was simply an analogy), then you agree that the PC will have little issue running next gen games.

I was not trying to start any Console vs PC debate. I was simply offering a reason, based on the current landscape, as to why devs might not invest in bringing the Next Gen Optimized version to PC this year, and why it is not really an awkward situation. I know that you can buy a PC to outperform PS5/XBS, but right now the audience that has a PC that is even on par with the consoles is very tiny, and the users with something that can outperform them is an even smaller sliver.  

In the here and now, on a yearly sports title, it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense to build to hardware that very few people have, on a platform that in which your title already has a very low sales rate.