I don't think he's wilfully avoiding criticism, I really think he isn't getting a lot of criticism, since people are just mindlessly fawning over the idea that this could be 'what saves The Sims 4', so there's not a lot of criticism or scepticism for him to respond to. Hm, I agree with some things you said and with some I don't. Microsoft has stopped offering 32-bit Windows 10, and similarly Apple has also stopped offering OS that run 32-bit applications. On the note with TS4 dropping 32 bit support - I think it’s sort of just the standard these days. Obviously ymmv and people probably have made the games work with lower specs, and probably have run into issues with higher specs

Considering the graphics requirements, the cards listed for both TS4 and Control are relatively old I think, in that if you wanted to track one down you’d have to find a third party seller. If I look at laptops with the recommended CPU for Control, that’s bumped up to about $500+, and this isn’t taking into account any of the specs for RAM, graphics, etc, which would bump it up more I would think. So for reference, if we look at just the CPU alone, I can find a laptop meeting that minimum requirement for TS4 for about $300, give or take (there’s some variety in the top few that pop up). * NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 / AMD Radeon R9 280X * AMD Radeon HD 7870/ R9 270, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

* CPU: AMD 6-core 3.2 GHz, Intel quad-core CPU 3.0 GHz * Hard drive: 9-15 (seeing some differences across some of the major sites reporting this) GB + 1 GB for cc/saves (recommended)Īnd then if we compare it to others games (I picked Dragon Age Inquisition because it came out roughly around the same time as TS4 iirc, and Control because I believe that one is sometimes used as a benchmark for gaming)ĭragon Age Inquisition Recommended (2014)

* CPU: 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, AMD Athlon X4 Dual Core 4000+ or equivalent (some differences if computers use built in graphics chipsets) So they did lift them, but I think they’re still relatively low requirements relative to other popular games. A bit of a wall of text but I thought this was an interesting question so I wanted to do a little bit of googling :)

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