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Originally Posted by Stuart
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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It is true that some developers are taking the lazy route and developing for consoles and just porting or making slight tweaks to bring it onto the PC. However other developers are specifically developing for PC to maximize their games' ability to make complete use of all high end PC features and then downsizing for console (or ignoring console completely). Some of the biggest MMORPGs are PC only after all.
Again, though, even as a developer, on a console you don't have a choice. You have the hard limit of the current-gen console's capabilities and you cannot develop for platforms above that nomatter what. On PC you can aim as high or as low as you choose. Granted, some just cater for the lowest common denominator but that is by no means universal. And it's not as if all console games make full use of their hardware all the time either, nor do all PC games. Tetris anyone? You are going to get console quality games on a console nomatter what. You might get console quality games on a PC but you also have a choice to not get console quality games on a 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..
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PCI express for high-end and superfast drives have been around for many years. I don't see how going to a 16Gb/sec next-gen cabled serial bus is "going in circles" compared to a 16MB/sec parallel non-cableable bus.