Is paul hossack a liar?

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Is paul hossack a liar when he says that fifa next gen cannot be built to run on the pc due to the complexity of how the game is processed?

I hear that the pc's processor fall short of the power offered by the PS3 and xbox.

In my head if i think of a core i7 paired with 12 GB of DDR3 ram and top end gpu their should be no reason why it would not run smooth.
 
could be true if it was using all the spus on the ps3. but the xbox360 is basically just a 3 cored pc processor iirc and a pc could easily run it.

if it runs on a 360 it can be fairly easily ported to a pc.

there's just more money for less work building it for consoles only though. no need to pay commission for copy protection no need to make lots of patches or compatibility for lots of differing set ups.
 
He actually said it couldn't run on the majority of PC systems. Way to take his quote out of context and fire it right into the sun.
 
Exactly. It's akin to saying Crysis won't run on the majority of home PCs. Of course it won't; the majority of home PCs are Word and IE boxes with next to no horsepower.

PCs and consoles are difficult to compare anyway; consoles run totally different architectures with a much smaller feature set. They are specialised machines for a few simple tasks.
 
What I want to know is how the hell fifa can take so much power. Unless you decide to render every single person in the audience and give them all AI.
 
if it requires that much processor power that a pc can't handle it, there's going to be a lot of house fires when those PS3s start heating up :eek:

MW
 
KNiVES said:
He actually said it couldn't run on the majority of PC systems. Way to take his quote out of context and fire it right into the sun.
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I agree, although E.A are being stupid in my opinion (Obviously ignoring their financial reasons) by

A: Not releaseing their sports games on the PC.
B: Not releasing anything in the UK on STEAM.
 
What he meant to say was the PC is a long way ahead of the consoles technically but because:

1: It costs much more to make a PC specific version which uses all this powerful hardware to to the max.

2: PC Piracy means EA will sell fewer copies as they have not yet grasped how best to avoid this so would rather abandon the 195M PC gaming machines in the world right now (although of those 195M only a small percentage would be Quad Core or better with a decent gfx card).

Basically like most publishers now EA would rather create 3 year old technology for the consoles as its a home run for them.
 
I read an article that EA are abandoning DVD disk and are putting future pc versions of fifa on the EA store and you have to activate the version you have with a code.
 
He means the systems that the majority of PC gamers use. How many people who buy FIFA will have a i7 with 12GB of DDR3 do you think ? Top tier hardware owners are a major minority.
 
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