I can somewhat understand GTA4's graphics requirements, it's highest level settings will need 512 MB to 1 GB of video memory because of all the unique textures, shaders, models, and the draw distance, though Crysis is still a better looking game due to the better artistry and of course better optimization as well as the usage of lots of common textures/shaders across the environment. What gets me and so many others is the need for a quad-core CPU just to get it to run properly. When it comes to gaming, the 360's Xenon is no more powerful than an Athlon x2 4400 from what I hear. The desktop I used to have had an Athlon x2 5600 and what it did with running Crysis' physics engine and everything else in the editor was definitly more impressive than anything I've seen on the 360 when it comes to game orchestration with the CPU. I would create over 50 plus enemies on screen at once, and the CPU had no real problem handling the AI, the physics as I nailed them with my SCAR rifle and things went flying from explosions, not to mention all the other basic things going on like trees and objects breaking. That's why GTA4's need for a quad-core is absolutely rediculous, unless the consoles barely have the CPU power to maintain framerate at the same level as their GPUs, in which case I could see the need for a quad-core just for nice smooth 60 FPS gameplay. But ulgh..........it's just bad x86 optimization. Lazy jerks. Most every other multiplatformer only needs a Pentium 4 3.0 GHz minimum, which clock per clock is about a quarter as powerful as a 3.0 GHz Core 2 Duo (Core 2 architecture is about 1.8x faster than Netburst, take into account there are 2 cores in a Core 2 Duo and the advantage of dual core processing from a task management point of view, then it's going to be better than 1.8x, probably 2.5. In which case a P4 would be less than a quarter as powerful as a Core 2 Duo of the same clock speed, and a Core 2 Quad would be 8 times as powerful if not even more!). Even Capcom has said that the Xenon isn't much more powerful than a Pentium D Dual Core. It's got a bit more headroom thanks to it's 6 thread capability (2 per core in the tri-core Xenon), but that's not much of anything in my book. The 2.26 GHz Core 2 Duo in my laptop destroys any Pentium D with complete and utter prejudice.
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Holy wall of text.
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