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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
So?
Having a PC means you can get a high end rig if you want to.
Having a console means you can't use a high end rig nomatter how much money you throw at it. See above. Watchdogs on the PC will easily run at higher resolution and nearly double the framerate on a sub-£100 graphics card and a machine with overall cost less than a PS4.
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Which wasn't my point. I was looking at it from a developers point of view. Software companies, like any companies are looking to maximise profits. One way to do this is cut costs. Developing assets (such as textures) for a game is a major cost, so they may look to reduce that by re-using assets across platforms. Now, developers can do this the easy way or the hard way. The easy way is develop for the platform at the lowest end, and scale the assets to the higher end stuff. The downside with this is that the resulting game will not take full advantage of the underlying hardware in a high end PC. That hard way is to develop for the high end platform and scale the assets down so the low end platform can cope. I think a lot of companies take the former option, and not the latter. I think this is the case because I've seen high end PCs produce graphics that are a lot better than most games manage.
After all is said and done, you can spend as much as you want on a PC (up into the 10s of thousands of pounds should you want) but if software manufacturers are simply porting games from consoles without bothering to work on improving them, you are going to get console quality games on that PC.
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And, possible proof that the computer industry is moving in circles.. Western Digital are now talking about PCI Express hard drives..
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06...ed_disk_drive/.
These sound a lot like the 32 Meg Western Digital "Hard Card" that plugged into an ISA slot on my PC where I worked a few years ago..