14 DAY TRIAL // A lot of publishers and developers might still be seeing the PC as a dying platform when it comes to gaming, but at least one company that focuses heavily on the platform says that a new graphics revolution will make it much better than gaming consoles pretty soon.
Speaking to Destructiod, Brad Wardell, who is the president and the CEO of Stardock, has talked about the power of the PC, saying, “If you think it’s cool now, right now games are about to make this jump to 64-bit.”
He added, “We’re gonna go from messing around with these 2GB limits to having essentially unlimited memory, and people don’t realize what that means. But it means we’re gonna have these crazy high resolution textures.”
Wardell believes that the really “crazy stuff” will appear in the next one to two years and that a lot of the gamers that have moved to consoles in the last six or seven years will come back to the PC, attracted by graphics and the convenience of digital distribution services.
Stardock, the company that Wardell leads, has recently made news when it sold its Impulse digital distribution service to retail chain GameStop, which plans to use it to increase its presence on the PC market in the coming years.
The company has also been heavily focused on the PC, creating the Galactic Civilizations franchise, a turn-based strategy game that attracted a big following, and publishing Sins of a Solar Empire, a real-time strategy from Ironclad Games.
Last year Stardock launched Elemental: War of Magic, a strategy game that was supposed to revive the fantasy-based turn-based genre, but has not managed to impress gamers when it arrived.
Elemental is set to get the Fallen Enchantress expansion this year and all players that bought Elemental in the first months will get the new content for free.