As if you needed any further convincing of the PlayStation 3’s raw processing power, EA Sports has revealed that only 1-3% of gaming PC’s would be able to run the console versions of FIFA 2009.
"The PC version of FIFA 09 is different to the PlayStation 3 versions because of the CPU processing power required for the architecture of the game", a staff member on EA’s UK forums stated.
"The majority of gamer’s PC’s do not have enough CPU processing power for this architecture," he continued. "If the architecture was identical to the PlayStation 3 version, FIFA 09 on PC would only be accessible to 1-3% of the PC systems on the market."
We’re presuming that 1-3% is the quad-core water-cooled SLI brigade, who would presumably be far too busy getting Crysis to run on Medium settings anyway.
Don’t know about you, but we’d rather have all that processing power dedicated to Cristiano Ronaldo’s quiff and Frank Lampard’s wobbly gut. This is the state of the art folks.