Quote Originally Posted by SKYMTL View Post
If they achieve better performance on low end hardware, that's innovation enough for me. At least for now.

That would make PC gaming more accessible for more people, driving up its popularity. The issue with the PC sector at this point is the moving performance goalposts which developers are continually striving to hit. This makes optimizations nigh-on impossible. A ton of hardware choices is a great thing for consumers but in the end, that small factoid may be what ultimately sinks the PC gaming industry.
well don't get me wrong i would love to see better optimized games for lower end hardware but i would bet that rather than spending the time to optimize games they would more or less leave things alone for the PC platform.

i would agree as well that the PC gaming industry is in a bit of a catch 22 as in order to grow we might need to slow things down. but part of me thinks that game devs and publishers even given the chance wouldn't do much to make proper PC optimizations until they could make money.... which your right would require more PC gamers, which brings us back to the start of the circle.