The whole thing is totally barmy to me.
At the moment and in the current situation the companies need to be looking at REDUCING the cost of PC gaming so it can survive.
Making a physics card mandatory to play games so they can sell more cards?
Dumb, dumb, dumb it will just push more people away, "Oh man I can't play without ANOTHER £150 upgrade, oh forget then, (just like they did with Crysis)."
If you don't need the PhysX (or PhysX enabled) card to play the game, why buy the card?
Trying to get people to buy 1/2/3 additional graphics cards instead of just one.
Plain stupid, budgets are tight enough already and going to get tighter.
Pushing expensive "Beyond HD" screen resolutions:
Pointless, the customer isn't stupid and 1080P HD is more than adequate and the law of diminsihing returns kicks in hard. Also 40+" screens for your PC just don't work as your sitting close the screen rather than in a living room where you are further away.
PC Gaming needs to be reaching out to find new markets, not trying to extract even more from it's shrinking 13-40 target demographic who are already moving to consoles. Parents strapped for cash are going to be looking at spending less on entertaining their kids. The last thing they want is never ending expensive upgrades.
Darkheart
At the moment and in the current situation the companies need to be looking at REDUCING the cost of PC gaming so it can survive.
Making a physics card mandatory to play games so they can sell more cards?
Dumb, dumb, dumb it will just push more people away, "Oh man I can't play without ANOTHER £150 upgrade, oh forget then, (just like they did with Crysis)."
If you don't need the PhysX (or PhysX enabled) card to play the game, why buy the card?
Trying to get people to buy 1/2/3 additional graphics cards instead of just one.
Plain stupid, budgets are tight enough already and going to get tighter.
Pushing expensive "Beyond HD" screen resolutions:
Pointless, the customer isn't stupid and 1080P HD is more than adequate and the law of diminsihing returns kicks in hard. Also 40+" screens for your PC just don't work as your sitting close the screen rather than in a living room where you are further away.
PC Gaming needs to be reaching out to find new markets, not trying to extract even more from it's shrinking 13-40 target demographic who are already moving to consoles. Parents strapped for cash are going to be looking at spending less on entertaining their kids. The last thing they want is never ending expensive upgrades.
Darkheart