Tim Sweeney Talks PC Gaming

March 11, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Adventure, Corporate, First Person Shooter, Interview, Piracy

Recently, Epic Games has a lot to say regarding PC gaming, but in doing so, epic always went the wrong way. We either got dimwitt console producers with stupid haircuts bad mouthing PCs or clueless and sub-par console ports . Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, creator of Unreal engine and arguably one of the most respected and admired developers around, sat down with TGDaily to discuss the current stature of PC gaming. Here’s a snip:

TG Daily: What are your thoughts on the future of the PC as a gaming platform? Is scalability the future – we hear AMD talking about Spider and Nvidia is selling Triple SLI that will keep us upgrading over the next several years. Or did the industry lose its focus?

Sweeney: PC gaming is in a weird position right now. Now, 60% of PCs on the market don’t have a workable graphics processor at all. All the Intel integrated graphics are still incapable of running any modern games. So you really have to buy a PC knowing that you’re going to play games in order to avoid being stuck with integrated graphics. This is unfortunate, and this is one of main reasons behind the decline of the PC as a gaming platform. That really has endangered high-end PC game sales. In the past, if you bought a game, it would at least work. It might not have been a great experience, but it would always work.

Full Interview after the break.

TGDaily.com Tim Sweeney Interview

With statements like these, one really has to wonder the future of so called “PC Gaming Alliance” or why Epic even bothered to join it.