High-end PCs Are the Top Priority for EA !

mjorh · 2016-11-17 01:50:56

It's still fairly common for PC to get average ports of console-targeted blockbuster titles, but according to Electronic Arts' CFO, it may be the other way around for his publisher's studios. Speaking at the UBS Global Technology Conference, Blake Jorgensen said the company aims for the highest spec PC, and then scales back accordingly for consoles.The question arose during a discussion about the company's flexibility when it comes to console cycles. Moving all of its games to the Frostbite Engine has meant that dramatic upgrades only need to happen for one engine, rather than '25', according to Jorgensen. In any case, he believes Microsoft and Sony are moving towards more iterative hardware upgrades anyway, and that backwards compatibility between these iterations will stop games dying at retail, thus making investing in games less risky.In other words, Jorgensen foresees that profit margins won't need to be scaled according to new console updates because the publisher won't need to invest in new technology so often: they're already building their games to exploit the best of what hardware is available.'You won’t see much margin upgrade at all,' he said. 'We build all of our games to the highest possible spec, which is typically a high-powered PC, and as the consoles come in, [which] may not be the highest spec, we may actually dummy down the console product to meet the spec of the console. In a world where the console looks more and more like a PC, that’s good for us.'EA is on our team peasants, aka, EA is da best :P Back to the point, EA has done a great job in terms of optimizing their games lately, BF1 is the GFX king and it runs like a dream on PC, the same goes for Titanfall 2Here's hoping other devs follow the path as the results are good for all platforms.Thoughts?

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#51 mjorh

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@joebones5000 said:

Games are made on pc and ported to console. This is news?

Not all games have PC as their lead platform

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#52 aroxx_ab

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@howmakewood said:

@aroxx_ab said:

Still, PC gamers getting bad console ports all the time...

Majority of the multiplatform games are developed on PC, then they are ported to Consoles, so how are they bad console ports to be exact?

If that is true hermits can stop blame consoles then

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#53 Mr_Huggles_dog

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Wait high end PCs as in ones with like 2 & 3 GPUs in them?

Thats gonna suck.

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#54 mjorh

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@mr_huggles_dog said:

Wait high end PCs as in ones with like 2 & 3 GPUs in them?

Thats gonna suck.

Nah don't think so, High-end like GTX 1080 or 1070

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#55 Mr_Huggles_dog

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@mjorh said:

@mr_huggles_dog said:

Wait high end PCs as in ones with like 2 & 3 GPUs in them?

Thats gonna suck.

Nah don't think so, High-end like GTX 1080 or 1070

Thank God.

Thats cool.

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#56 bowserjr123

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Makes sense since they developed Crysis.

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#57 JasonOfA36

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@bowserjr123 said:

Makes sense since they developed Crysis.

Nah, EA published it. Crytek developed Crysis.

But EA must have ordered the devs to make develop the games for high-end systems then scale it down for the lower ones.

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#58 clyde46

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@mr_huggles_dog said:

Wait high end PCs as in ones with like 2 & 3 GPUs in them?

Thats gonna suck.

As someone who has two GPU's, multi card setups have their problems.

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#59 bowserjr123

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@jasonofa36 said:

@bowserjr123 said:

Makes sense since they developed Crysis.

Nah, EA published it. Crytek developed Crysis.

But EA must have ordered the devs to make develop the games for high-end systems then scale it down for the lower ones.

True that, my bad. Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if they wanted the game to be pushed to its graphical limits.

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#60 Edited By Heil68

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We'll see how that goes.

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#61 the_master_race

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@Heil68 said:

We'll see how that goes.

well , it's going good , rly good ...

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#62 Edited By True_Gamer_

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How Denuvo changed EA:

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2008/05/next-up-to-blame-piracy-for-pc-gamings-decline-peter-moore/

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#63 GameboyTroy

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Here's Titanfall 2 footage

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#64 deactivated-5920bf77daa85

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@navyguy21 said:

@jereb31 said:

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Good to hear.

Mass Effect 1-3 were just console ports with no PC extras which sucked.

Had to resort to mods to get it looking decent.

Did you mean to say.

"Had to resort to mods to get it looking even more amazing than consoles".

Yes and no.

What i mean is the PC versions were just direct console ports with no added graphical options like AA, ambient occlusion, high res textures, etc.

Mods added those things. Without mods, the only thing PC had over consoles was higher resolution and slightly better textures.

Mods made the game look a lot better, but not as good as it could had the developer actually spent time improving it for PC

NOW THAT'S A TRUE SONY FANBOY!

Jesus Mutha-Fracking Christ! I can run Mass Effect 1/2/3 at a locked 120 fps - that's 4 to 8 times the erratic frame rate you got on consoles (worse on PS3)

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