Welcome to ideologies, they have extremists who usually have no idea what they're talking about. Please insert name of general group here who have their own beliefs and how they yell at you about you being wrong.

Most people don't upgrade their PC regularly. But PC's are not a console where everyone is on one release cycle so you'll hear from people who were fine before but now have to upgrade because their PC is hitting the 4-5 year old mark and they want to keep playing at 1080p+, 60fps+ and on high+ settings. I won't have…

There is some truth to that though. The difference being that devs aren't optimizing their games (watchdogs was an excellent example). When the games do get optimized they run excellently on older hardware. Devs need to stop fucking over PC gamers simply because we want choice with our system (far cry 4 turned off…

Luckily you don't have to upgrade regularly to play at max settings unless you are aiming for extremely high resolutions (multi-monitor config/4k). The only part that would see potential upgrade would be the GPU. Even Patrick's CPU in the article is still just fine for games now days and wont be his bottleneck despite…

the last console life cycle was 7 years, actually

The Witcher 2 has been a benchmarking game for years and set the bar for graphics when it came out. Likely, the Witcher 3 is going to be the same way, hence the high requirements. I think it's a mistake, though, to assume that this is a larger trend with PC requirements, I think that's unlikely.

You're getting a lot of hate from PCGamers, some of them are right. But as a PCGamer myself, I know what you're talking about. I built my system in mid-2014 and it's about twice as powerful as the PS4. I run games like Battlefield 4 on Ultra settings with 4X MSAA at 60 fps.

I used to follow the schedule: Upgrade MOBO/RAM/CPU one year, then video card the next year. So I'd spend about $300-$500 a year on PC upgrades. However, lately I've been going 2-3 years without upgrading anything (probably because so many games were developed for console at the same time as PC, so their video…

You can upgrade one component at a time, making the opportunity cost of upgrading pretty low. The fact that I could play current-gen games with a seven-year-old GPU, while having upgraded other parts two years ago is quite a statement as to why PC gamers love their machines. In the other hand, if you don't dole out…

I have exactly what's recommended for Ass Unity, more or less (i5-3450, 16GB memory and GTX680) but I still play with setting close to the maximum at 50-60fps, no lags whatsoever. It still gives me better graphics then the console. I guess it's gonna be the same for The Witcher 3. Publisher don't want anymore to be…

Funny, I was just yelled at by a few hundred PC elitists just a few weeks ago how it wasn't necessary to upgrade your PC regularly in order not to get left behind. I assume they'll be coming back to yell at me some more all while opening a second tab to order their new video card so that they can play this new game…

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Nyko revealed a few other accessories at CES, but the Type Pad stands out. Am I the only person who fell in love with and used Xbox 360's tiny keyboard add-on? I was actually sending messages to people! I never do that on the Xbox One or PS4, but maybe the Type Pad helps out.

This is exactly why I was getting mad at gamers during this whole DDoS attack against Sony and Microsoft. Yes, it sucked to not play games online for a couple days, but for crying out loud, it's such a first-world problem. We complained about "our holidays" being ruined or messed up, but we had no problem not thinking…

WOW: Ten years working at home and paying for it.

But it doesn't have games at launch, does it? I was under the impression that it was for last-gen games...

A step in the right direction, but I still don't know about the pricing. Netflix hit the sweet spot with 8.99/month for movies, and I don't think that spot is necessarily $20/month for just part of Sony's back catalog.

I could see $20/month for a service that offered digital games from all platforms, but I couldn't…

Even $15 a month seems a bit high unless the service works flawlessly. The price model is similar to an MMO subscription, so compared to that you get a lot of games for the same price over one game but I think most people will compare it to something like Netflix, which is cheaper and gives you reliable (at least in…

All of you complaining about his form completely overthought this video.

"Perhaps he needs a hand."