Sweeney: PCs Good for Anything... But Games [Mar 10, 2008, 9:11 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
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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.
Two hundred bucks on a video card would let me play COD4 and Bioshock, but I just don't care at the moment, I'll play them later when I buy a new system.
Since when does dropping any amount of money on a video card last you more than two years with the latest and greatest games? Seriously. Think about it.
As to Intel integrated video, it's crap, everyone knows that. Even an old onboard nVidea 2 chipset is probably better than the latest 'Extreme'.
But as Creston pointed out, why would Intel care? They don't. It runs windows and Firefox good enough. If you're going to play the latest games on your PC you need enough of a brain to recognize that you need a video card even if you don't have enough little grey cells to install it yourself.
Since when does dropping any amount of money on a video card last you more than two years with the latest and greatest games? Seriously. Think about it.
As to Intel integrated video, it's crap, everyone knows that. Even an old onboard nVidea 2 chipset is probably better than the latest 'Extreme'.
But as Creston pointed out, why would Intel care? They don't. It runs windows and Firefox good enough. If you're going to play the latest games on your PC you need enough of a brain to recognize that you need a video card even if you don't have enough little grey cells to install it yourself.
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