The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

[Zgroktar]

Matt Skynner, the company's Corporate Vice President and General Manager of AMD's Graphics Business Unit, reassured PC gamers in an interview with Forbes that the days of neglect are likely over. The PC gaming segment is alive, it's doing well, and growing. With the new generation, the architectures are similar, therefore development costs are reduced, and much easier to create multi-platform games than before.

(Talking about PS4.)

I'll have to see more requirements but the fact that the new CoD game has a 780 as its recommended GPU leads me to believe that devs are likely to, at the beginning at least, not optimize their games for PC to get people to either buy the new consoles, or to convince people to upgrade their GPUs if Nvidia or AMD are involved. Optimization is really a lost art and it sucks. Just because hardware is advanced doesn't mean you can just throw your console game onto the platform. That's incredibly lazy and I've seen many games do that or just do the minimum of optimization.

That being said, I want to trust Frictional but the fact that the only platform we've had hinted is the PS4 kind of worries me.

I understand your concerns, but Sony is a representative of their platform so it is to be excepted they will try to market it anyway it can, but who is a representative of PC?