The real reason PC graphics aren't making consoles look like a joke yet is because of piracy. Everywhere you look, PC games are being pirated. Developers aren't spending as much as they used to on new PC games because internet piracy yields lower profits.

I built a budget gaming rig instead of buying a 360 1.5 years ago, because as much of a hassle PC's are, I'd rather have a working PC than a broken console. It cost me about $500 to build my PC, and although it isn't as powerful as I'd like it to be, it can still play all those multiplatform games at much better resolutions and framerates than their console counterparts.


In my opinion, PC's will never outpace consoles the way they used to, due to piracy. Cheap indie games and subscription MMO's have taken over on PC's as far as I'm concerned, because those are the only ways PC's can really get around piracy (honestly, who pirates $5-15 games?).

Isn't there supposed to be a gun somewhere in each of these pictures and a set of hands holding it? Maybe a HUD also.

yea i agree 100%, if you notice they still are going by the base spec's. when the first system's were released the extra hardware is just that

it does provide a extra bonus for speed up in running software but it's not that big of a deal. In my Opinion it's all good so long as the cunsumer still get's to play the game even on the older hardware

Good thing most people don't have your taste in games. If they had your taste, there wouldn't be 300 millions PC gamers right now.

Why don't you add your PC games to your vgchartz list?

Because PC only has MMORPGs, Zeno Clash, Crysis 2, Trackmania 2 and Blizzard games, am I right?!

It's not just piracy, PC is a VERY competitive market. Not only there are 10 times more PC games being sold than console games, but there's also MMOs, Free-2-Play games, flash games, etc...

The PC market is oversaturated with games, everyone cannibalizing each other's sales. But companies still live on.

 One problem with blaming piracy is people have been pirating games since the C-64 days.    The deal with piracy is the same with console used game sales. The development of games have greatly increase while gamers at the same time doesn't want to pay more for games that they did  10- 20 years ago.   So even though both piracy and used games was a factor in the 90's as well as I could return a new game for a full refund within 7 days as EB  games were still profitable. This is one reason for years I only bought both console and PC games at EB.

 When it comes down to it both consoles and PC have this same problem, How many gamers are willingly to pay full price for the games vs the cost of developing them.  In some cases it's more profitable to create more shovelware for the Wii then an multi-million game on the HD consoles.

It's not just the piracy though, it's the fact that the internet makes piracy so easy. People used to pirate music cassettes and CD's too, it wasn't until the internet that piracy really took off.

 On the other side of the coin the internet also makes it easier to count how many are pirating (dl) the game. I could just as easy pirate game in the 90's especially with EB return policy. One thing Brad at Stardock noted is teenagers are a lot more likely to pirate games than those who are older and has a job. So If a developer want  to worry less about piracy don't develop games at that group.

 I must admit  when I was a teenagers I pirate music like crazy off the radio (yes, it still counts as violating the copyrights) and very seldom ever bought  music.  The reason I did this is because I didn't have any money. Now that I do I actually buy my music including online.

consoles are too low res now

600p mw2 is ridiculous its like .6 megapixels

Well, it's either display in 600p at 60 fps, or display in 720p at ~40 fps. IW wanted to have as little controller latency as possible though... so 60 fps is better. Personally, I don't care if it's 600p. Framerate > detail.

Or play it on PC for 60 fps at 1080p or resolutions in excess of it. :D