Sweeney: PCs Good for Anything... But Games

Sweeney: PCs Good for Anything... But Games
[Mar 10, 2008, 9:11 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments

Unreal creator: Tim Sweeney PCs are good for anything, just not games” on TG Daily is a Q&A with the Epic CEO which, as the title of the article suggests, features some negative comments about the PC as a gaming platform. This is actually just the age-old complaint about PCs with integrated graphics, as he says that mainstream PCs are not suited to gaming:

Retail stores like Best Buy are selling PC games and PCs with integrated graphics at the same time and they are not talking about the difference [to more capable gaming PCs]. Those machines are good for e-mail, web browsing, watching video. But as far as games go, those machines are just not adequate. It is no surprise that retail PC sales suffer from that. Online is different, because people who go and buy games online already have PCs that can play games. The biggest problem in this space right now is that you cannot go and design a game for a high end PC and downscale it to mainstream PCs. The performance difference between high-end and low-end PC is something like 100x.

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A smart game developer would...
Mar 11, 2008, 15:24

Cartman

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A smart game developer would... Mar 11, 2008, 15:24

Mar 11, 2008, 15:24

Cartman

A smart game developer would develop games to run on the cpu bypassing the so-called "gpu's" insuring a potential market for his product. Especially now when there are multi-core cpu's with idle cycles just begging to be used... and these cpu's WILL make it into e-machines and other inexpensive systems. ~~Geforce 8800 Ultra SLI's... not so much.~~

It is beyond ridiculous to expect PC gamers to buy $1,500 worth of new videocards every six months just to be able to play your $50 game.

I remember the old days when Unreal ran on this thing called "software mode" and was the hottest thing out.
Don't forget your roots, Epic.