@gamingdevil800: No they're not. The main team since ME:3 ended have been iterating on new IPs for this gen… just like how they did that last gen (Mass Effect & Dragon Age) and the gen before that (KOTOR, Jade Empire, etc)
@Brettsky128: How can you say Bioware doesn't care about the Mass Effect series just because the main team is working on a new IP and they decided to give a B team an opportunity to make a risky new entry in the series?
@daleksec1977: @cavindar Anthem is being made by the core Bioware team (inc. writer) that brought you Mass Effect franchise in the first place.
It's a hasty reaction to "boycott" that game for a ME game they were not a part of. ME:A was an interesting attempt of something different from another studio, but it didn't work out to EA's liking.
@PSYCHOV3N0M: I very much prefer the Xbox Anywhere strategy. Enable the ability for their first party games to be available on PC & Xbox One.
It'll also normalize this ideally being the norm: Buy the game once instead of having to buy the game twice (PC & console) or even three times (Xbox, PC, Switch/Handheld).
It'll also help with piracy. A common reason some pirate is buying the game on console and then later want to play the game on PC or the opposite.
@warui: I'm confused, how am I lying? Did I say explicitly that a PC capable of 4K would definitely be consistently cheaper than the Xbox One X?
Anyhow, if you want 4K @ 30FPS like Xbox One, you can easily get very close these days; the PCPartPicker tool proves this. I have many friends that have done so w/ $800 (inc. extra things not related to the core goal of being cheap as possible; very rare)
If I was going to do 4K@60FPS specifically from scratch toda , I'd get a 1080TI (honestly two) which is more than the Xbox One alone! Xbox One X does not guarantee 4K at 60FPS and they'd be foolish to.
Also "more than than the majority of gaming PCs" is pretty vague. Any computer can be a gaming computer and most of those stats are inflated by those browsing on computers by users who wouldn't seriously play AAA PC games on their laptop with. Most gaming PCs weren't built with 4K in mind like RAM & GPUs with insufficient specs–primarily lack of memory–to be able to do 4K justice (there's a reason why the 1080 & 1080TI–Nvidia's first definitive 4K GPUs–have RAM in double digit figures ).
Having a high-end rig myself for years now (Overclocked 980TIs in SLI, overclocked, water cooled 6700k, 32GB DDR4 RAM, 1.2TB NVMe SSD Intel 750, & etc), it's really overrated the cost IMO.
Especially considering the freedom, benefits, & professional options such rigs provide you that more than justifies the price for a good amount of people.
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