Once again Nvidia and AMD/ATI release new cards, the Geforce GTX 580 and AMD Radeon 6 series, but the PC gaming is non existent.
All games released today for the PC are actually console games made for the graphic capabilities of the Playstation 3 and the Xbox 360, the games are not developed to make maximum use of what the new video cards can do, their not even at the level of what cards like the GTX 280 and ATI 4870 could do.
I have already written about this topic in Nov 2009 and now a year later this is still true.
So what's the point of buying a 500$ video cards in 2010 if the graphics of games today is at the level of Geforce 7800GTX and ATI 2900 Pro from 2006 which is similar spec to the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.
Examples of games released in 2010 which have 2006 graphics are Call of Duty Black Ops, this game looks worse than Modern Warfare 2 and yet it has higher system requirements for the PC, how is that possible for a game developed for the same consoles Call of Duty 4 was developed for which was released in 2008.
Nvidia and AMD can keep releasing new video cards but until there are games to make use of them there will be not much point in upgrading, which is a shame because DirectX 11 is capable of life like graphics which would be amazing to see in games.
Maybe we will get to see better looking games on the PC the Playstation 4 will be released in 2012 or 2013.
2 comments:
For Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad of course, silly. Full blown 64 player PC exclusive shooter, with modern day and vietnam mods coming in addition to the WW2 vanilla game (which will get updated constantly with free DLC maps, vehicles, weapons etc.)
That alone is worth new gen GPU.
I agree 100% with PeteRoy, even if Red Orchestra 2 is comin' out, its never worth a 2000€+ rig... If there were like 5 or 6 games similar to red orchestra, that would probably be worth it.
Like when we had game series like quake/doom/half-life/unreal/battlefield,far cry, etc all at the same time competing to deliver the best experience possible.
Now you only get crapy console ports and those poor "free-to-play" PC FPSMMOs ...
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