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hellobion2 said:

Stupid question but when did this pc master race conspiracy start. Because we know pc is the best system to play games but when did people start saying "pc master race" etc

The "PC Master Race" came from a Zero Punctuation review of The Witcher (the first game in the series):

Go to 52 seconds and you'll get to the reference that started it all.

As a concept it probably began slowly during the PS2 era, maybe even late PSOne when PC games had graphics that made console games look like a decade behind thanks to GPU development vastly outpacing what the consoles could muster out of it's hardware. But it took until the PS360 era for it to really take off, mostly as a counter to the "real is brown" trend of early PS360 games, which had a very muted color palette due to the lack of RAM (later games picked more vibrant colors, making them more colorful despite still using a limited color palette), and because their old DX9-based GPUs (Xenos is based on a mashup between the Radeon X1900XT and the Radeon HD 2900 Pro; the RSX in the PS3 is based on the NVidia 7800GS but with double the cache so it could pull data from the system memory without too much a performance penalty) couldn't compete with the newer DX10-based GPUs on the PC market. It also made DX9 the de-facto standard for most games despite being horribly outdated by the end of the console generation.

By the end of the PS360 era PC games could visually do leagues above what consoles could achieve - but only a select few PC exclusives went that way (just look at the first Far Cry, which came out in 2004 and may look primitive now, but no game on the PS360 could really manage to replicate those graphics even 7 years later, especially the dense foliage and vibrant colors), and the rest had to conform with what the console versions can achieve, making many PC gamers feel like the consoles holding them back with their outdated hardware. Late in the generation AMD released their first APUs, and those managed to play the cross-platform games at console settings sometimes better than the consoles themselves did at the time, making them look like total potatoes.

Last edited by Bofferbrauer2 - on 27 February 2024