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Originally Posted by Lexandro
I hate to do this but I have to point out that people that game on PCs tend to have systems that far exceed what would be considered "mainstream" a year or two ago. Quad cores have been on the market for some time now, AMD and Intel both have 2nd generation quad core processors on the market. These far exceed the 360 processor capabilites.
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Check here:
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/
Those are people, who actually game.
And, Operating system is also occupying some resources.
No need to argue - I believe you, that you and you friends have only Quad Cores at home, with superb videocards.
But that's not mainstream. And you need to rely on mainstream to make sales.
That won't be a problem in a year, I am sure.
But right now - current-gen(OK) consoles are still better in computing and about equal in video capabilities.
But on consoles, however, you have a fixed and defined architecture and hardware, and can make application much more optimal with much less time (and money). So, in a next year or even two the best optimized games (for broad audience) will appear on consoles.
Than (next year) we'll get the new cycle in the infinite spiral 'consoles vs. PC', and PC versions of the game would be always better on a target hardware, and than there will be new generation.
Of course, right now modern PCs are doing better.