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So I was thinking the other day, what with all this proclaimed 'piracy killing PC gaming', and the inevitable shift of developers making games primarily for the xbox/ps3 first; surely the need to uprade your graphics hardware will become almost needless?
I mean, the xbox360 obviously can't be upgraded so any games made for it will have to be kept at relatively simple settings. Surely this means that any half decent PC with 8800 will be able to cope with absolutely ANY port from the xbox (unless it's a terrible port) for years to come. Crysis is the only game recently that really pushed things and it sold terribly compared to expectations. It has definitely put off any developers from making a hardware pushing game any time soon. Games will be made for consoles first, we know this, devs have said so, and so current hardware is already good enough.
I reckon that after this latest batch of cards come out in June, there'll be very little progress in graphics for the PC for a long time until the next gen of consoles arrive.
Whatya reckon? Are we about to see a radical change in the pace of graphics hardware development? The 8800GT is a definite sign of this I'd say.
I mean, the xbox360 obviously can't be upgraded so any games made for it will have to be kept at relatively simple settings. Surely this means that any half decent PC with 8800 will be able to cope with absolutely ANY port from the xbox (unless it's a terrible port) for years to come. Crysis is the only game recently that really pushed things and it sold terribly compared to expectations. It has definitely put off any developers from making a hardware pushing game any time soon. Games will be made for consoles first, we know this, devs have said so, and so current hardware is already good enough.
I reckon that after this latest batch of cards come out in June, there'll be very little progress in graphics for the PC for a long time until the next gen of consoles arrive.
Whatya reckon? Are we about to see a radical change in the pace of graphics hardware development? The 8800GT is a definite sign of this I'd say.