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Conina said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

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

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.

I'd say even before the PS1, when the first SVGA games arrived (640x400 or 640x480 resolution, quadruple of the VGA resolution) and the co-processor of the 80386 was used.

Links 386 Pro (1992):

Microsoft Flight Simulator 5 (1993):

Also Larry 6 SVGA (1993)

While these games did have better graphics, they were also in genres that were not prominent on consoles at the time. It was pretty well established at the time that PC was king when it came to adventures, FPS, (non-J-)RPG and simulations, and those were also the genres where those graphics were mostly found. In other words, there was little to no direct competition yet at the time