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.