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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Re: Read the article
Mar 12, 2008, 20:26

Creston

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Re: Read the article Mar 12, 2008, 20:26

Mar 12, 2008, 20:26

Creston

Intel could have improved their graphics cards to keep up with games, but they didn't.

Ofcourse they didn't. They knew they weren't competitive in the top of the line graphics market, so they never bothered to try. They focused on their end of the market, which is cheap motherboards with integrated graphics for the business and home user. And made an absolute fucking FORTUNE in it.

But somehow it's now Intel's fault? What benefit is it to Intel if they make an onboard integrated graphics controller that the equivalent of, say, a Geforce 7900? Great, their motherboards now cost a hundred bucks extra. Which gets them how many extra customers?

Or let's say that Intel decides to offer high end integrated video in addition to keeping the low end. How many gamers are going to buy integrated video, even if it's supposedly on par with Nvidia/ATI's latest offerings? Would you?

Intel knows its market. Its market is not in high end graphics. For Tim Sweeney to bitch and moan about it won't make a fucking difference.

Neither will the PC Gaming Alliance. Because in the end, even 500 developers whining and crying, I still don't see what benefit there is for Intel to try to compete in a market they can't compete in.

Okay, let's see, that's Rein, and that mongrel cliffy, and now Sweeney. Who else does Epic have that can come and bitch about PC gaming. How about the intern? Maybe they have a janitor? Coffee lady?

Creston