Epic boss: consoles will stifle PC gaming until next generation | GamerSquad reports that Epic Games boss says consoles will stifle PC gaming until next generation

Epic boss: consoles will choke PC gaming for years

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Posted: Jul 30th 2007 by Andrew Macarthy

A 'Crysis' for PC gaming in the next few years?

DirectX 10, Microsoft's multimedia and graphical videogaming anchor, arrived with the firm touting another forward shift in the kind of aesthetical wizardry we could soon be seeing from PC games, but Epic Games' vice president has told CVG that he reckons developers and publishers aren't going to wholeheartedly jump into bed with the technology for a number of years yet.

"To be honest, and I'm going to cast a small pall on the industry here, I don't think you're going to get much higher until the next generation of consoles," said Rein when asked what we can expect from DX 10 beyond what we're seeing in Crysis.

He cited the huge gulf between low-end and high-end PCs at present, making PC development a lot less economically viable.

"And in addition, just now we're just barely coming into the sweet spot of the next-gen consoles... We're at the point where it's viable to ship games on these next-gen consoles and it's going to be a gold mine for a couple of years. “

He added that developers are going to want to plump for creating games on the Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Xbox 360 rather than the PC, even if it means restricting themselves from the limits of their known graphical capabilities.

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i'm glad about this as if you just paid £300 or £400 on a console you want to know that the developers are going to develope games for it, with the old gen of consoles you used to look a the pc games list with glee as you know 75% would never see the light of day on the consoles. also you can go out and buy a top end computer to play games on and if you get the wrong type of graphics card or not quite enough grathics mem your investments been a wast of time, and in all fairness in 2 or 3 months it will have been anyway as the next set of games will be developed on the next top end computer.

Posted 490 days ago by nitefighter

This is bad... pc's games should evolve.. not fair pc games been choked by consoles... people who buy them should have the quality they pay for.. why should computer games hold up just because of console system? people dont see the capabilities of pc's and dont wanna learn so they go the easy way---Buy consoles! is not pc's fault that people dont understand them and prefer consoles! thats no excuse... this is holding back the future of graphics!

Posted 387 days ago by OblivioN_

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