Originally Posted by
SKYMTL
Personally, I feel the massive power of the PC gives game developers a crutch so to speak. Instead of properly optimizing their games, they can use the GPU's power as a fall-back option for somewhat adequate gameplay due to a bare minimum of optimizations. Sometimes I wonder if the PC gaming industry as a whole (let's forget about the hardware vendors) would be better served if NVIDIA and AMD simply idled for a year or so.
It is the epitome of irony that some of the best looking games have been released on consoles. To this day, I still struggle to find a PC game that can match the visuals presented in Killzone 2/3 and the Uncharted series without relying on a $300 graphics card. Meanwhile, both of those games are perfectly playable on 6 year old hardware.
I'm not saying that it isn't exciting to see a new GPU coming. Rather, I think it is time game developers are held accountable for performance shortcomings rather than the hardware or drivers from AMD and NVIDIA....