Blizzard: We're "Very Serious" About Diablo III On Consoles

[bakan]

For every PC game you can name, I can name a console game that would never work on anything but the highest tier gaming rigs. Bayonetta, any of the Dynasty games.

And that is why this forum needs a wall of shame. This statement would not have been true 4 years ago, let alone now.

You try and tell me Bayonetta would work on a PC. Where the slightest bit of frame rate drop could kill you. And when you have 200 or 300 dudes on screen in Dynasty, unless you have a top end rig, it's gonna lag hardcore. My friend has a top end rig, and it lags trying to render the 300 Tier 1 and 2 tanks he runs into bases in Supreme Commander. And those are each about 3 or 4 pixels in size.

Consoles aren't some kind of magic machine Oo

PC's have higher processing power and could run any console game as long as it is optimized for the PC and not for console structures.
Btw frame rate drops are more common in console games when they want to render fancy stuff and bring in fancy physical stuff like mist etc.

 

[AbstractStream]

I'm totally for this.
My poor gaming PC died on me and at the moment I'm too broke to do anything about it.

 

[bakan]

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All I can say from experience is that Oblivion nearly murdered my last computer, I was forced to remove all non-essential graphics. And without them, the game looked terrible. My PS3 ran it fine and it looked great.

The average person cannot afford the top end range PCs that allow them to surpass consoles. My friend Mike has such a rig. It cost him $850. That's a PS3 and 7 new games, btw. Just so he can play Battlefield 3 with all the fully rendered dust.

I guess for 850$ he runs a rig with water cooling etc so he shouldn't have any problems with any game nowadays, or he just got ripped off with a pre-built one...
And you don't have to invest so much money, 400-500$ is enough to play all current games on high settings.

 

[Xanthious]

All I can say from experience is that Oblivion nearly murdered my last computer, I was forced to remove all non-essential graphics. And without them, the game looked terrible. My PS3 ran it fine and it looked great.

The average person cannot afford the top end range PCs that allow them to surpass consoles. My friend Mike has such a rig. It cost him $850. That's a PS3 and 7 new games, btw. Just so he can play Battlefield 3 with all the fully rendered dust.

The average person who doesn't want to do any kind of looking and wants to go to someplace like Best Buy and buy one off the shelf can't afford a gaming rig, sure. However, someone who wants to put in a bit of work and do some shopping and searching can put a very competent gaming rig together for under 500 dollars.

Hell, if you want to factor in some mail in rebates and the like you can probably come in under 400 if you really want to exercise some patience. I'm pretty sure I could put together two gaming rigs for 850 dollars and still have money left over for a couple games.

The smart PC shopper knows you don't just wake up one day and decide "It's PC buyin' time" and go out and get whatever the hell you can find. No, you search and shop around and wait to find great deals and after a small period of time you have a big pile of parts you paid next to nothing for that you can combine into one hell of a gaming machine. To bottom line it if you can afford a PS3 there is no reason that you couldn't afford a PC. If you are lazy and impatient then ya consoles are the best way to go but you can get a much better bang for your buck exercising a bit of patience and work buying a PC.

 

[bakan]

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All I can say from experience is that Oblivion nearly murdered my last computer, I was forced to remove all non-essential graphics. And without them, the game looked terrible. My PS3 ran it fine and it looked great.

The average person cannot afford the top end range PCs that allow them to surpass consoles. My friend Mike has such a rig. It cost him $850. That's a PS3 and 7 new games, btw. Just so he can play Battlefield 3 with all the fully rendered dust.

I guess for 850$ he runs a rig with water cooling etc so he shouldn't have any problems with any game nowadays, or he just got ripped off with a pre-built one...
And you don't have to invest so much money, 400-500$ is enough to play all current games on high settings.

400-500 is BS. A low-end Quad-Core is at least $150 by itself. My graphics card is mid-end, and it was $125. That's $275 before we even get into the other stuff.

I run an i5 quad core, Gainward GTX 460 GS 1GB, 6GB Ram, 3 TB storage (1TB faster hard drive and 2TB eco just for data) and this for ~600 1 year ago from scratch as my other PC went down in a storm due to overvoltage.
And honestly if you can upgrade your old rig you are even better off than this and you could get this stuff for ~500 nowadays.

 

[Xanthious]

400-500 is BS. A low-end Quad-Core is at least $150 by itself. My graphics card is mid-end, and it was $125. That's $275 before we even get into the other stuff.

Assuming you just crawled out from under a rock and don't have a current PC you can use things like the case, hard drive, etc off of you can still put together a solid gaming rig for between 400-500 easily. Tigerdirect.com or newegg.com constantly has barebone kits that come with damn near everything but a video card for 300 dollars or less. You slap a good 150 dollar video card in one of those and you have yourself a gaming rig that's going to run anything you throw at it like a top.

 

[MetallicaRulez0]

The console might even be better, since it won't give you insane mouse hand arthritis from 180 clicks a minute. I still don't understand how WASD movement and hotkeys as an option would hurt the game. I'm actually considering not buying D3 because it literally hurts my hand to play it for any stretch of time.

 

[fundayz]

LOL they're "very serious" but not serious enough to actually commit to it by making an official announcement?

 

[Arkynomicon]

That's good. I'm not particularity interested in getting a gaming PC just for a handful of games and now I have even less of a reason.