Anyone who needs a chuckle should head over to the EA forums (http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/fifa-10-pc/) and enjoy the torrents of bile currently descending on EA for the thoroughly inadequate effort that is Fifa10 for the PC. I bought a copy and it won't even run on Vista64 - just gives me a black screen and I have to reboot. For most of this decade the PC version was at least as good and often better than the console version but since 2008 at least it's been lagging badly behind.
The official reason for this is that EA won't support 'next-gen' graphics for the PC because people around the world who buy the Fifa series have less powerful PCs. But then they demand a minimum of a 2.4 Ghz cpu!!! Now I remember playing Fifa in 1995 (yes, you read that right, that's 1995 not 2005) on a PC that must have been something like a Pentium-133 (that's roughly a 0.1 Ghz cpu); you really don't need that much cpu power to make a decent footy game. It's all about making it look good. But unless you're going to individually animate crowd members (that'll be the day), you don't need a lot of gfx power either. You're not telling me that if the absolute *minimum* just to run the game is a 2.4 Ghz cpu and an ATI 9800 or nVidia 6600 you can't make something that can compete for looks with the PS3 and the xbox360. Lame, EA. Very lame.
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