It isn't because the PC's can't handle it power-wise, but that the install base of PCs that can handle it is WAY too small to justify a developer spending millions of dollars making a game that maxes that system out completely (and by maxed out, I'm not talking about running an unoptimized game that was made to run on PS4/XBO at a higher resolution/framerate, I mean running graphics and CPU functions that simply are not possible on current console hardware. About a year to 1.5 years before we're talking about PS5, you'll start to see PC games that the consoles just couldn't handle start to trickle out. PS4 isn't as powerful as the most powerful PC by a long shot, but you won't see games that go well beyond what PS4 can do (that only the most powerful PC on the market today can run) for many years. And yes, Mantle is PC tech and it will bridge the gap I mention above, but so far it is only available in one game and doesn't work on Nvidia GPUs. They go into detail about what mantle enables that typical directX PC's can't. If you need to know just how much performance is lost to that, just look at AMD's mantle tech demos.

PS4's GPU also can queue up more asynchronous compute commands at once than pretty much any PC GPU on the market today (though that will change soon), and doesn't have bloated middleware and operating system overhead to deal with.

Having an APU can actually give performance advantages, as both CPU and GPU reside on the same chip and (in the consoles) have custom buses that connect the two together that you won't find on PC. If this didn't run about the same as the PC version it would be a HUGE disappointment. Its just not a demanding or next gen game. You need and want a large userbase and so you don't target higher end hardware. The PC version is tailored to be able to run on a wide range of hardware because it is an MMORPG- thats the whole point. Of course we probably have everybody saying wow haaaaa look PC gamers PS4 matches PC on this game. I would be impressed if this was some sort of high end PC game but it just isn't.

You can run it on a 6 years old Core 2 Duo machine with a Geforce 8800GT. It hardly looks amazing on PC and it runs really easily on pretty weak PC hardware. It already runs in some form on PS3- it has roots that lie in previous generation console hardware. It's not this is some amazing thing though. They look pretty similar, PC definitely edge it for sharpness of image quality and some textures however it is likely the stream quality.

Computersaysno 2935d ago (Edited 2935d ago )

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