Au Ra Twitter Campaign vs Console players

[dejiko_san]

OMG! I has no tweeter account. This is racist toward people who don't use a specific social media site! I want a refund!


Translation: Get over it.

Exactly I live in an area where it's forbidden to enter contests like these so even if I'm "NA PC group" I can't even participate EVER.

I totally agree with Soul_Vigil regardless of my personal situation. Shit happens, get over it!

[Nadrojj]

It's not exclusive to PC players. You just need a PC to access it. Said PC just needs to be able to download and use the benchmark. You can literally enter this contest by downloading it to a computer at a net cafe and using it there.
It in no way requires the PC client to use.
Nowhere in the contest rules does it stipulate "PC users only"

This right here. This can be closed and locked because this is the correct answer. It's funny seeing console players complaining about a PC benchmark. If you are that bothered buy a PC. Can't afford one? Be happy you have a console to play the game on. INB4 I can't afford a PC - I built a PC for as much as my PS4 cost that is capable of running the game at maximum settings pulling a hare below an 8k score.

[Lisotte]

i don't have a PC anymore because i simply don't need one. the performance from the PS4 is geat (better than most PCs have xD of course, you can spend tons of money to have a better performance on PC, but you only need that for your virtual penis), no need for a stupid benchmark because the game will work anyway...

and the others: who cares about the character creation? you are acting like that's the only thing you will do until 3.0. but i think you will spend only 30 mins to create an ugly character showing the screenshot around and never touch the thing again...

Actually I would put money on most people's PC's these days running better than on PS4, the PS4 has some super old hardware.

This whole discussion is moot. Like seriously, what the hell. The whole purpose of the benchmark is so that people can test if their PC can run the game, and for SE to track statistics on the quality of the PC's being used by the playerbase. The whole Au Ra creation thing and that contest (which btw I'm excluded from since I think twitter's a POS), are just gravy, something that SE was able to whip up quickly and cheaply as an incentive for people to download the benchmark (something I still haven't done).

And in the end... SE is a business, if a couple disgruntled console only people that don't seem to even have a toaster PC rage in the forums, they're probably going to roll their eyes and move on.

[Kosmos992k]

Actually I would put money on most people's PC's these days running better than on PS4, the PS4 has some super old hardware.

Given the stagnant state of the PC market and it's relative decline in sales, I would not be so sure. There are a hell of a lot of (by your apparent definition) "super old" PCs out there. I find it strange that so many PC players presume that everyone using a PC to play has a relatively up to date gaming rig.

[Eye_Gore]

Actually I would put money on most people's PC's these days running better than on PS4, the PS4 has some super old hardware..

How much money would you like to wager?

[Lisotte]

Given the stagnant state of the PC market and it's relative decline in sales, I would not be so sure. There are a hell of a lot of (by your apparent definition) "super old" PCs out there. I find it strange that so many PC players presume that everyone using a PC to play has a relatively up to date gaming rig.

At the same time while the general public has started to slowly stop using PC's, on the gaming front PC gaming is booming like it's never before and causing speculation on if this might be the last generation of consoles.

[balte049]

Whenever the words Console and PC are together, 99% of the time stupidity follows.

[dekal]

Whenever the words Console and PC are together, 99% of the time stupidity follows.

I agree with you, pal. I barely use tweeter much less have an account. I can't access thus contest, but you don't see me raging about not participating.

I have to agree with another person who mentioned that PC players don't always have access to video games only Consolers players are able to play. All this commotion because they don't have access to one of the bonus the tester has and the event going on. We can't always have it all.

[Kosmos992k]

At the same time while the general public has started to slowly stop using PC's, on the gaming front PC gaming is booming like it's never before and causing speculation on if this might be the last generation of consoles.

And yet PS4 continues to sell like hotcakes. I'm not saying that to start an argument, it's simply a counter point to what you're saying.

I think your analysis is flawed, and you're simply using it to justify your position. In fact, this generation of consoles has been speculated to be the last because of the increasing feasibility of streamed gameplay such as PlayStation Now. Mobile gaming has also had a huge impact on the console business with the tidal wave of money and effort thrown at casual and freemium games on mobile devices. That and the increasing "commoditization" of the hardware involved in producing photo-realistic 1080p effects could make the arguments for a new console iteration harder.

I think it's unlikely this will be the last generation of console, and in fact I suspect Sony will push a PS5 out a couple of years before we might expect since the hardware inside the box is such a commodity now. They've been making money on every PS4 sold so far, and I think that shortening the upgrade cycle makes sense for them, much like it does for GPU makers. If anything, the next generation will bring console performance back to the mid-range gaming PC standard at launch which will be more than good enough for the majority of gamers at the time.

With Windows and PCs in general moving towards a more mobile platform and tablet like form factor, PC gaming is actually one of the few reserves of the old style big box PC. If anything is under threat in the future it's that. The increasing costs of developing games for multiple platforms and configurations, along with the adoption of standard CPU/GPU component architectures in consoles; suggests that for developers, a closed box solution such as the PC architecture based consoles would be an increasingly attractive option.

[raelgun]

Given the stagnant state of the PC market and it's relative decline in sales, I would not be so sure. There are a hell of a lot of (by your apparent definition) "super old" PCs out there. I find it strange that so many PC players presume that everyone using a PC to play has a relatively up to date gaming rig.

Just gonna throw this out there, but GTA 5, which has reasonable min specs, still requires some modern hardware, yet that game alone on steam has over 1 million sales, no one has found sales outside steam yet fully.

1 million sales of a game thats been out for around a year and a half, yes there will be plenty of people on PCs that are more then upto scratch, not to mention the hardware from the past 5 -7 years are still pretty decent.

Lets not forget the advancement of new hardware, we are getting new CPU range which promises less power consumption and better performance yet still affordable, New GPUs with brand new memory tech HBM memory that is which is just absurd spec wise on paper.

The Nvidia 960 is such a compelling GPU at the moment for the money, more and more people are buying the parts.