Yeah, I'm starting to think seriously about how much this game is going to cost me. UT2k4 is the only game I play, and as I play on a laptop (a G4 Powerbook which runs it really well at medium/high settings) I'm probably going to have to splash out on a new computer....for one game!
I mean, my computer handles everything I need it it to handle really well now, Photoshop, CAD etc can all run at the same time...I'm not going to use this extra power for anything else except UT2k7....and that's A LOT of money just for a game.
It seriously makes me wonder what Epic's plans are. I mean, I work and can afford this, but probably most gamers are students, or don't have the income to easily cover the hard-ware upgrades...it could seriously affect the community and make the game pretty hardware elitist. I know there are people who are willing to do that, but I am wondering whether I myself will, and I wonder how many others will also decide that they can't justify the expense
So I find myself, amazingly even to myself, wondering whether Epic will make the game run with keyboard/mouse on the PS3 (apparently it's up to the devs about this). I thought I'd left consoles behind ages ago, I don't really want to go back to consoles, but it seems to me that a PS3 is going to be a fraction of the price of the upgrading I'd need to do to play on PC/Mac....and if it IS playable on keyboard/mouse, then I might be seriously tempted to go with it on the PS3 (assuming it's released, which looks likely).
I don't want to go back to consoles for various reasons, not least that i think the online console community can't compete with the PC one....but with hardware requirements like these, Epic are going to be forcing peoples hands.
