Re:Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day
by jiggy2011 on Thursday September 19, 2013 @03:54AM
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You could if you target really high end PCs but a lot of the PC market is now laptops or people who don't want to upgrade every 6 months to a year.
Re:Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day
by jackmaney on Thursday September 19, 2013 @07:30AM
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There was a time when gaming PCs had to be upgraded regularly, but that hasn't been the case for years, now. My gaming rig was built about three years ago, and it should be able to go another one to two years before it will need an upgrade. And even then, the only upgrade it should need is a new video card (the GTX 460 that I have is sufficient, but it will eventually be a performance bottleneck).
Re:Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day
by plq on Thursday September 19, 2013 @03:08PM
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I wonder how much consoles are to blame for that. Big studios that have the power to drive PC upgrades produce mainly for decade-old hardware, which is just peanuts by the standards of today's PCs.
Re:Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day
by enneff on Thursday September 19, 2013 @10:54AM
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The PS3 is nearly 7 years old and runs GTA V. Modern PCs could run GTA V just fine. In fact, it'd probably run better on the PC because they could just install the entire game to the hard drive (load times are a bit lengthy on the PS3 because of disc seek times).
Re:Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day
by robmcm on Thursday September 19, 2013 @04:08AM
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>Dear god what a mess GTA IV was and how many patches it took to actually get it to a workable state.
Could be the reason they don't, but I expect piracy is the main reason it's not on the PC yet.
You do often see tech demos of engines that show of what can be done, but you develop for the market, which is the same for most technology (cough Internet Explorer cough)
It sucks that every major game lately is just made for the lowest common denominator and then if we are lucky, we get a half assed PC port. Dear god what a mess GTA IV was and how many patches it took to actually get it to a workable state.
I still wait on a studio that actually takes enough pride in their work to develop something that really pushes the envelope of PC gaming. You could take that then and show even the "Next Gen" consoles what actually is possible nowadays if you don't go for the bargain basement.