Unreal Creator Proclaims PCs are Not For Gaming

An anonymous reader writes "TG Daily is running an interesting interview with EPIC founder and Unreal creator Tim Sweeney. Sweeney is anyway very clear about his views on the gaming industry, but it is surprising how sharply he criticizes the PC industry for transforming the PC into a useless gaming machine. He's especially unhappy with Intel, which he says has integrated graphics chipsets that 'just don't work'."

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Re:I'm not worried, because...

[cHiphead]

Sorry but if you don't get it, you just don't get it. The console is fundamentally flawed by inconsistent performance, latency, INCOMPATIBILITY, and simply being a moving target. As it stands, you need to have a Wii, Xbox360 and PS3 to stay on top of all of the latest console gaming. After you shelled out all that money for a Gamecube, Xbox, and PS2. So after you've shelled out ~$1200 for that, I'll still be playing on my ~$600 moderately fast PC at the same resolutions as that $600 720p HD tv, albeit with better video latency. You console kids, ESPECIALLY the ones old enough to know about Last Ninja 2, really need to get off the couch in the basement more often.

Once upon a time consoles had something going for them, the lower cost for the system itself, the latest batch of consoles (and even the initial PS2 and Xbox) have thoroughly decimated that one real advantage.

Additional stuff: not all of us drink or even like Mountain Dew (exception is made for the Pitch Black 2 version that was out for a very short time), and most of us didn't really care about Daikatana, wary of the bullshit hype and too busy waiting for the next Duke Nukem. And most of us liked Halo for about 3 seconds until we determined the XBox controller was shite compared to the response time of a $8.00 GE brand roller mouse from Walmart, and if we touch the PC version of Halo we laugh b/c its Serious Sam with fancier graphics but less fun. (Btw, BF1942 and espcially BF:Vietnam with helicopters were both leaps and bounds past anything Halo 1/2/3 could hope to dish out).

Cheers.

Hypocrite, underachiever, has-been

[billcopc]

Tim Sweeney is waaayyyyyyy off his rocker.

First and foremost, Epic has not released anything revolutionary since the first Unreal. My hunch is Tim's pissed off at the PC because it exposes many flaws in their software, whereas the consoles are an obscure, isolated environment that doesn't lend itself to such easy criticism.

I'll be blunt, when Gears and UT3 were released, I was disappointed by both. Here's a company that supposedly makes game engines, you know, like id Software. Their latest and greatest engine can't even give my PC a decent workout, in my book that means it's already obsolete. It looks and feels dated, compared to other current games. Contrast with the original Quake, Doom 3 and Crysis, which all pushed the hardware beyond its limits and defined the upper crust of 3D engines, a benchmark against which all others would be compared.

I'm sure UT3 looks great on an HDTV, when compared to other console games, but the fact that it can't even saturate a year-old gaming rig on its maximum settings is simply pathetic. What does the UT3 engine offer that's better than the competition ?

My money's on Carmack.