Why consoles are the superior gaming platform

Your'e comparing 2005 hardware to a 2011 game?

Are you ok?

Optimization. The only reason PC trashes consoles today is because optimization can only go so far, and that consoles are released every 5+ years which age them horribly. Example: Find me a PC built in November 2005 that can come close to the graphics of this . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MouHr9D8ud8 . or this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwywuVzrJTg . No pc built in Nov 05 comes close So we see that the console platform is much better for gaming, since devs can optimize games for specific hardware. But since consoles take so long to release the next system, pc demolishes them. So what do I propose? Release a new system, at the same price, every year. This way, devs can have the latest hardware AND optimize that hardware. PC gaming couldnt touch that combo.slarkyslark

Lol, find me a ps3/xbox game that came out 2005-2006 that can compare to a pc 2005 game, Ha!

did you mean "could be" instead of "are"?

So... they can optimize it better, since the hardware is static, but it still manages to look worse than the less optimized pc games do to the sheer difference in power. I don't see why Optimization = better game, all it means is more work to get it to run in the first place.

Show me a console that can play this

See, I can play that game too.

So... they can optimize it better, since the hardware is static, but it still manages to look worse than the less optimized pc games do to the sheer difference in power. I don't see why Optimization = better game, all it means is more work to get it to run in the first place.Inconsistancy

[QUOTE="Inconsistancy"]So... they can optimize it better, since the hardware is static, but it still manages to look worse than the less optimized pc games do to the sheer difference in power. I don't see why Optimization = better game, all it means is more work to get it to run in the first place.slarkyslark

That's moronic, that would put console manufactures out of business, look at Sega, they tried to release hardware too often, and they burned for it. And it takes YEARS and YEARS to get that amazing optimization that you cite in the GEOW3/UC3 games, look at the initial releases from '05/'06 respectively, no where near as good.

What you want them to do, is exactly what it would be like to optimize for pc, 'cept that would kill the console industry, no installation, too expensive.

PC is superior to consoles in every way but

Too bad it doesn't have games anymore :(

All great games nowdays are console exclusive

PC is superior to consoles in every way but

Too bad it doesn't have games anymore :(

All great games nowdays are console exclusive

Zurrur

All great games nowdays are console exclusiveZurrur

I'm no PC gamer, yet I know that isn't necessarily true ;)

[QUOTE="Inconsistancy"]So... they can optimize it better, since the hardware is static, but it still manages to look worse than the less optimized pc games do to the sheer difference in power. I don't see why Optimization = better game, all it means is more work to get it to run in the first place.slarkyslark

Anti-PC brigade is wound up a bit too tight tonight.

Anti-PC brigade is wound up a bit too tight tonight.

hypoty

haha looks like it. :lol: But it's just the one guy

1080p, 60 fps, games consoles can only dream of

No pc built in Nov 05 comes close, as we know the 360 and ps3 run on 2005 hardware. slarkyslark

Well that's the beauty of it, as a PC gamer I'm not stuck in 2005.

I'd rather move onto new hardware to allow for more advance games then to stick with old hardware and consoles were released in 2006/7 :roll: show me a console that can do Crysis or Metro 2033 maxed out.

Optimization ain't some magicbro if you think it will get you things like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zhS4DuML5Qthen you have been fooled by all the prebaked goodies and what nots in your games.

. This way, devs can have the latest hardware AND optimize that hardware. PC gaming couldnt touch that combo.slarkyslark

Not to mention it would put MS and Sony out of business.

So what do I propose? Release a new system, at the same price, every year. This way, devs can have the latest hardware AND optimize that hardware. PC gaming couldnt touch that combo.slarkyslark

Youi seriously expect cunsumers to shell out $300-$400 every year, and to justify that kind of purches knowing in advance that what they buy will only be useful for 1 year?? :|

What the HELL is this.... I don't even... :?:?:?:?

I remember when these threads actually had effort put into them.

0/10.

TC, please keep making topics, they are hilarious. :lol:

The console armies have some really weak soldiers.

[QUOTE="slarkyslark"]So what do I propose? Release a new system, at the same price, every year. This way, devs can have the latest hardware AND optimize that hardware. PC gaming couldnt touch that combo.AdobeArtist

Youi seriously expect cunsumers to shell out $300-$400 every year, and to justify that kind of purches knowing in advance that what they buy will only be useful for 1 year?? :|

What the HELL is this.... I don't even... :?:?:?:?

What you fail to realize about those graphic intensive console games is:

They run at 720P

They run at 30 FPS

There's no/less AA

Levels are small and linear

So they don't exactly compete with PC games

After looking at your other thread, i will say the same as last time - stop trolling.

Nobody would buy a console every year.

I dare the consoles to run Rome Total War or even BF2 on it's max settings. Both games would bring console to their knees becasue of the lack of RAM.

Fear 1 maxed out on PC beats any console game, PC's could do 1080p back then, consoles are still on 720, lol

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I dare the consoles to run Rome Total War or even BF2 on it's max settings. Both games would bring console to their knees becasue of the lack of RAM.

Wasdie

Will a next gen console run todays best looking games (crysis/crysis2/metro) ,maxed out, at 1080?

Only time will tell :D

I was holding this one for a special moment.

Fear 1 maxed out on PC beats any console game, PC's could do 1080p back then, consoles are still on 720, lol

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HaloinventedFPS

I dare the consoles to run Rome Total War or even BF2 on it's max settings. Both games would bring console to their knees becasue of the lack of RAM.

Wasdie

[QUOTE="Zurrur"]All great games nowdays are console exclusiveAvatarMan96

I'm no PC gamer, yet I know that isn't necessarily true ;)

It isn't true at all lol. Not only are most amazing games multiplat across consoles and PC, but PC has a number of amazing exclusives. I can't wait for Diablo III :).

The video you linked us too has been removed. But to you I say. Show me a console from 2005 that can play whatever game was in the video we can't watch.

So what do I propose? Release a new system, at the same price, every year. This way, devs can have the latest hardware AND optimize that hardware. PC gaming couldnt touch that combo.slarkyslark

Not to mention that a year isn't nearly enough time for developers to learn how to effeciently optimize the hardware.

[QUOTE="slarkyslark"]No pc built in Nov 05 comes close, as we know the 360 and ps3 run on 2005 hardware. edidili

Well that's the beauty of it, as a PC gamer I'm not stuck in 2005.

No

Fear 1 maxed out on PC beats any console game, PC's could do 1080p back then, consoles are still on 720, lol

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HaloinventedFPS

Lol no...just no! Fear 1 looks incredibly dated right now!

[QUOTE="HaloinventedFPS"]

Fear 1 maxed out on PC beats any console game, PC's could do 1080p back then, consoles are still on 720, lol

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dom2000

Lol no...just no! Fear 1 looks incredibly dated right now!

The graphics are dated, but looking at the games of today, i think the AI will stand the test of time.