Actually I agree with shio. Those system requirements aren't massive.

In fact, there aren't any demanding PC games outside of Crisis nowadays. They don't put much resources on good grafix on PC exclusives anymore because of piracy. You can just as well keep playing on a console for $199 than waste $800 for a gaming PC to play just Crisis that you can't (yet) play on consoles.

It's kinda sad, sinceI have a great gaming PC, but there just aren't any PC games on the horizon who will take advantage of all that power.

I'm sure there are plenty of games that will take advantage of your rig, they just won't need that set-up as a minimum requirement. The games that sell best are those that not only can be run by your target audience, but also can scale to those with better systems. There's no point in making something that only 10% of your customers can run, when you can make a game that 99% of them can run, and 10% can run at 1920x1200+ with full anti-aliasing. Valve have understood this for years, helped immensely by their hardware survey stats. Once a certain threshold is reached by their Steam subscribers, they'll develop targeting that spec.

Buy a 30" Monitor. That'll definately make whatever your PC is beg for mercy at its native 2560 by 1600 resolution!

@DOLBYdigital

in my country:
average Intel Core 2 Quad low end processor price - 300$
average GeForce 9800GT graphics card form good company - 150-170$
Windows Vista 64bit Home Basic Edition - 120$
you pay 600$ just for processor, graphic card and OEM - add to that mainboard, ram, monitor and all the other stuff and you have 1200-1300+$

my brand new 360+22''monitor+14 new and 2 used games+1 additional controller = 900$ and i still have that 1 month Gold membership i received with a console.

What low end quad cores are $300? Even low end i7's are $280.

edit: oh you're in poland. i see.

Just a question here, but where are you quoting prices from?

From Newegg in the US,

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 (2.83ghz) - $219

EVGA 9800 gt - $109 for 512mb or $139 for 1gb

Windows Vista 64bit SP1 Home Premium - $109

Still, that's probably not the intention of your posts here anyway.

maybe in united states, but i'm talking about europe so first of all you have 1dollar = 1 euro bullshit and then you have additional ripping off game made by polish retailers and shops.

i took prices from website that makes comparisons between shops for every product that is being sold in my country.

What bullshit? Did I not ask where you were quoting prices from and THEN say that I was quoting mine from the US since I didn't know?

Dude, PC gaming is cheaper than Xbox 360 gaming. Just look at what you can build for less than $550 and $400:

US GAF's ULTIMATE $550 GAMING RIG.

[Motherboard (MSI 790X Crossfire) + Processor (Phenom ii X4 945 3ghz) + GPU (MSI 4890 1GB OC edition) Combo]: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboD...t=Combo.216270 ($334 AR)
[HDD (WD CAVIAR BLUE 640GB SATA)]: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136218 ($60)
[DVD (Samsung 22X DVDRW)]: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827151187 ($27)
[Case (Coolermaster Elite 330 e)]: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811119115 ($37)
[PSU (OCZ 500W Modular 80+)]: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817341016 ($34 after rebate)
[RAM (OCZ 4GB DDR2 800)]: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227269 ($36 after rebate)

Total: $603.93 + $65 MIR =$538.93

US GAF'S ULTIMATE $400 GAMING RIG

[CPU/MOTHERBOARD/MEMORY COMBO (2.8ghz E6300 / ECS G31 / OCZ SLI 4GB 800mhz)]: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboD...t=Combo.215870 ($157 +$23 MIR)
[DVDRW (Samsung 22x SATA)]: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827151187 ($27)
[GPU (Sapphire E HD 4850 512M)]: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102824 ($100)
[HDD (WD CAVIAR BLUE 640GB )]: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136218 ($60)
[CASE/PSU COMBO (Coolermaster Centurion 5 / Coolermaster 460w): http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboD...t=Combo.208506 ($75)


$418.92 - $33 rebates = $395.93

Both will play RE5 on high settings atleast, will make Crysis their bitch, and will play any PC game for the next 5 years (the $550 one will play every PC game for atleast 7 years)

The benchmark ran extremely well, so I doubt this game has been poorly optimized.