i have a 3570k
8GB RAM
GTX 560ti
I'm fully expecting to have to upgrade my GPU either next year or the year after to be able to play next gen games at 1080p and higher settings and i don't think many people are denying that (unless they have a monster rig like Dennis)
but you are comparing later games on old hardware, yes the consoles are just as old hardware wise but they have the advantage of optimization for a fixed hardware setup.
early on in the console generation i predict my pc to be absolutely fine until they start doing serious optimizations for each platform at which point i will probably have to upgrade to keep my higher resolutions and framerates. but i dont expect that until a year or two into next gen.
also your skyrim comparison is ridiculous, we already know that originally skyrim was released on pc with a slower dev build that was eventually patched out and its running at a higher resolution than the console versions.
8GB RAM
GTX 560ti
I'm fully expecting to have to upgrade my GPU either next year or the year after to be able to play next gen games at 1080p and higher settings and i don't think many people are denying that (unless they have a monster rig like Dennis)
but you are comparing later games on old hardware, yes the consoles are just as old hardware wise but they have the advantage of optimization for a fixed hardware setup.
early on in the console generation i predict my pc to be absolutely fine until they start doing serious optimizations for each platform at which point i will probably have to upgrade to keep my higher resolutions and framerates. but i dont expect that until a year or two into next gen.
also your skyrim comparison is ridiculous, we already know that originally skyrim was released on pc with a slower dev build that was eventually patched out and its running at a higher resolution than the console versions.