Are Consoles Holding Back PC Gaming?

jmke · 28th March 2010, 16:23

Despite all the excitement over Nvidia's upcoming Fermi GPU, there is still a distinct lack of DirectX 11 games on the market. This article points out that while the PC has returned to favor as a gaming platform, consoles are still the target for most developers, and still provide the major limitations on the technological sophistication of game graphics. Inside the Xbox 360 sits an ATI Xenos GPU, a DirectX 9c-based chip that bears similarity to the Radeon X1900 series of graphics cards (cards whose age means that they aren't even officially supported in Windows 7). Therein lies the rub. With the majority of PC games now starting life as console titles, games are still targeted at five-year-old DirectX 9 hardware.

http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/0...o ogle+Reader

jmke · 28th March 2010, 16:24

Consoles are holding back GRAPHICS for PC games. Gameplay is not related; as long as they do TEST their games with a keyboard/mouse instead of expecting people to use gamepads on their PCs

28th March 2010, 16:23	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,013	Are Consoles Holding Back PC Gaming? Despite all the excitement over Nvidia's upcoming Fermi GPU, there is still a distinct lack of DirectX 11 games on the market. This article points out that while the PC has returned to favor as a gaming platform, consoles are still the target for most developers, and still provide the major limitations on the technological sophistication of game graphics. Inside the Xbox 360 sits an ATI Xenos GPU, a DirectX 9c-based chip that bears similarity to the Radeon X1900 series of graphics cards (cards whose age means that they aren't even officially supported in Windows 7). Therein lies the rub. With the majority of PC games now starting life as console titles, games are still targeted at five-year-old DirectX 9 hardware. http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/0...o ogle+Reader __________________

28th March 2010, 16:24	#2
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,013	Consoles are holding back GRAPHICS for PC games. Gameplay is not related; as long as they do TEST their games with a keyboard/mouse instead of expecting people to use gamepads on their PCs __________________

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