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Tim Sweeney: PC's aren't suitable for games thanks to Intel

Posted on Wednesday, 12 March 2008 by Speed, source: TGDaily

Speaking with TGDaily, Epic founder and Unreal creator Tim Sweeney stated that PC's may be good for a lot of things, but not for gaming.

Of course, that's a firm quote, but he did say it with average mainstream pc in mind, pc's from huge brands that you can buy in your local supermarket and that come with a crappy Intel integrated graphics chipset.

Sweeney: Retail stores like Best Buy are selling PC games and PCs with integrated graphics at the same time and they are not talking about the difference [to more capable gaming PCs]. Those machines are good for e-mail, web browsing, watching video. But as far as games go, those machines are just not adequate. It is no surprise that retail PC sales suffer from that. Online is different, because people who go and buy games online already have PCs that can play games. The biggest problem in this space right now is that you cannot go and design a game for a high end PC and downscale it to mainstream PCs. The performance difference between high-end and low-end PC is something like 100x.

And he continues stating integrated graphics are the main issue when it comes to PC gaming:

Sweeney: PC gaming is in a weird position right now. Now, 60% of PCs on the market don't have a workable graphics processor at all. All the Intel integrated graphics are still incapable of running any modern games. So you really have to buy a PC knowing that you're going to play games in order to avoid being stuck with integrated graphics. This is unfortunate, and this is one of main reasons behind the decline of the PC as a gaming platform. That really has endangered high-end PC game sales. In the past, if you bought a game, it would at least work. It might not have been a great experience, but it would always work

But he does see some light at the end of the tunnel:

CPU makers are learning more and more how to take advantage of GPU-like architectures. Internally, they accept larger data and they have wider vector units: CPUs went from a single-threaded product to multiple cores. And who knows, we might find the way to get the software rendering back into fashion.
Then, every PC, even the lowest performing ones will have excellent CPUs. If we could get software rendering going again, that might be just the solution we all need. Intel’s integrated graphics just don't work. I don't think they will ever work.

I would say: get rid of Intel graphics and get some decent vidcard! Honestly, I can't imagine why anyone would buy integrated graphics but apparently worldwide it sells tons and tons more than nVidia or ATI...

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Anonymous

He just said why the buy the integrated video cards. The people that sell the machines don't mention anything about how they would not be game capable.
When the user finally does want to play games, they can't because they have integrated graphics. In the case of a laptop, upgrading is hard and expensive. Other users once they find the price of decent graphics cards would probably opt to buy a gaming console.

He just said why the buy the integrated video cards. The people that sell the machines don't mention anything about how they would not be game capable. When the user finally does want to play games, they can't because they have integrated graphics. In the case of a laptop, upgrading is hard and expensive. Other users once they find the price of decent graphics cards would probably opt to buy a gaming console.

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Posted on 01:08, March 13th 2008

Anonymous

I have to call bullshit. integrated graphics now are capable of performing as well as graphics cards from 3 or 4 years ago. Weren't those graphics cards from 3 or 4 years ago suitable for gaming? It's the pc gaming industry trying to force people to continuously upgrade there hardware that is killing the market. To save they industry, they simply need to give up on DirectX, and focus on making games that are capable of scaling to any computer running OpenGL. That way any old or new mac, linux or windows machine can join in the fun, and when they feel the need for more eye candy...upgrade.

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Posted on 07:05, March 13th 2008

NINJAFISH

I'd have to say its a bit of both.

I think I remember someone at epic saying something similar to this 2-4 years ago as well.

I'd have to say its a bit of both. I think I remember someone at epic saying something similar to this 2-4 years ago as well.

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Posted on 07:33, March 13th 2008

Anonymous

what a load of crap from someone who once made a good game, and went downhill from there.

Go program some other crappy version of your crapgame for those nextgen crapconsoles and don't come again!

Asshole.

what a load of crap from someone who once made a good game, and went downhill from there. Go program some other crappy version of your crapgame for those nextgen crapconsoles and don't come again! Asshole.

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Posted on 00:35, March 14th 2008