Just Cause Dev Claims PS4 Will Out-Power Most PCs For Years

[Epic Fail 1977]

Developer: "the PS4 will out-power most PCs for years to come"
Developer's bank account: LEVEL UP
Developer's reputation: DEAD IS DEAD

 

[Calcium]

Took me only two comments before I saw someone calling 8 GB of RAM underpowered. As is to be expected I guess.

I was kinda concerned that my own computer could only manage 4 GB, due to how often PC gamers seem to scoff at such a "small" ammount... And yet I've had no problems with it at all. The only game I can think of that would actually require me to have more RAM is Rome Total War 2, which I'm undecided on.

 

[BrotherRool]

Remember there's a lot of cruft required in making a game run on a PC that brings down it's specs a lot from what they should be on paper. Only last year John Carmack was airing his frustrations that a PC is 10x more powerful than a console, yet the drivers and API's are making it hard to leverage that power appropriately. When you combine that with the fact he's probably talking about the average computer, because you can't make an expensive game on the basis that only people with 16gb PCs can run it, it probably makes sense.

I think he means it will out power "The average PC" for years to come.

I'm sure he does, but that seems an odd quote to throw out. Even the PS3 outpowers the "average" computer.

I think this console generation has lasted so long that that the gap is closing a lot. I've got a fairly cheap laptop and I can run games which are only a couple of years old or stuff like the Old Republic which has been designed for fairly basic PCs.

 

[Fasckira]

And I really hope consoles dont go down the route of encouraging the consumer to upgrade the hardware. Part of the reason I prefer consoles for gaming these days is simply knowing that I can buy a game and it will work without issues out the box (though even then some games try their best to dispel that dream admittedly).

I'm a pc only gamer. The last time I was completely unable to game was. . . at least years ago. I don't even remember. It was 5 to 10 years back.

Not denying in the slightest its possible. I still play games on my PC though I find having to configure graphic settings a bit tiresome. Boils down to laziness on my part, really.

 

[Epic Fail 1977]

I was kinda concerned that my own computer could only manage 4 GB, due to how often PC gamers seem to scoff at such a "small" ammount... And yet I've had no problems with it at all.

Indeed. Hardly anything (currently) uses 4Gb on its own. Most games are still 32bit and are therefore limited to 2Gb anyway, and they rarely even use that much. The gamers that scoff at 4Gb are the sort of morons who spend their time bragging about the number of terabytes of music they have downloaded (seemingly oblivious of the fact that they could spend the rest of their lives listening to a terabyte of songs and still never hear them all).

 

[Frank_Sinatra_]

Sure it may be more powerful than some average PC's out there, but the average gaming PC? Yeah, no.
Seriously, how does he expect this claim to fly when most gaming PC's are upgraded at least once every 2 years, if not sooner than that.

 

[Rainforce]

Didn't we hear that claim already for the last playstation and/or Xbox?
Could swear we had it before.

 

[Zombie_Moogle]

It'll have more RAM than the PC I use at work to do spreadsheets... Congrats

(And before someone points out the pentiums still being tossed around, I said DECENT dang it.)

That put a smile on my face. Thank you

If it runs a game, it runs a game, but don't brag about a non-accomplishment

 

[itsthesheppy]

It's cute of the unwashed console masses to aspire to one day be as great as the glorious PC gaming master race. Really, we serve as an inspiration to them. It keeps them working hard, and I feel like that's doing the world a service in and of itself.

 

[Baresark]

Meh, he is very uninformed I think. I think he is taking the perspective that all or even a big share of PC users are gamers, which is completely false. I think the majority of PC gamers already run PC (myself for instance) that are more powerful than the PS4. RAM is cheap and plentiful. I also think it's stupid to say that based on a single hardware feature.

 

[JenSeven]

Yeah... my three year old PC has more power than the PS4. I did do some minor upgrades on it, but still.

I will admit however that the PS4 will be more powerful than my smartphone. And I do play games on that, so yeah, it will be more powerful than one of the machines I play games on.
So congrats PS4, you just proved that you're more powerful than an Iphone 4.
Take any victory, no matter how small and idiotic.

 

[razer17]

The PS4 will outpower more than 50% of PCs, regardless of specs. A PC with similar specs to the PS4 will be easily outpowered by it. Yes, a mid-high end gaming PC will be able to run games much better, with more graphical flourishes, but out of the huge numbers of PC's in the world, I reckon these gaming PC's will be a fairly low percentage of them. Therefore the PS4 WILL outpower most PC's.

All that being said, this is still a stupid statement to make. As game devs, they should only be concerned with gamers, not all the other millions of PCs, which are all completely irrelevant.

 

[FEichinger]

And I really hope consoles dont go down the route of encouraging the consumer to upgrade the hardware. Part of the reason I prefer consoles for gaming these days is simply knowing that I can buy a game and it will work without issues out the box (though even then some games try their best to dispel that dream admittedly).

I'm a pc only gamer. The last time I was completely unable to game was. . . at least years ago. I don't even remember. It was 5 to 10 years back.

Not denying in the slightest its possible. I still play games on my PC though I find having to configure graphic settings a bit tiresome. Boils down to laziness on my part, really.

And there we have the real argument behind "But consoles don't need me to know anything about PCs!", and I'm glad you're honest about it. It is just laziness. Any mid-range PC nowadays will be able to run games from the past decade (thank you, microsoft, for fucking with backwards-compatibility) and for the next five years. You just gotta change the settings to get your desired performance - and the fact that you can do this at all already wins over consoles.

 

[ViciousTide]

It would be great if he meant to release that the PS4's graphics cards were 8 GB of Ram.

 

[drisky]

I looked it up, and you can get a laptop for under $600 with 8 gigs of ram. So thats almost like having a portable ps4 right there. You can get an out of the box desktop for $400 that has 8 gigs. Plus pcs have had the ability to connect to social media and digital stores for years. That is what is on the market already, never mind in 5 years. I'm sorry Sony, but you really aren't staying competitive.

 

[Sean951]

I get that very few games use more than 8GB of RAM, but I don't the GPU will match mine. I spent $300 on it and another $200 on the CPU alone, and to match that the loss per console would be way too much to actually sell.

 

[SomeLameStuff]

Is he looking at the PC my mom has? Or is he looking at actual PCs built for gaming? Because comparing the PS4 to a non-gaming oriented PC is like telling a GP to perform an open heart surgery.