clipka wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>> Or, the game distributor may want to deliberately exaggerate the game's minimum
>>> requirements, to reassure high-end gamers that the game is indeed laden with
>>> cutting-edge graphics and effects, and not just lame old standard stuff.
>> Once upon a time, this seemed to be Microsoft's strategy. Every new
>> product they realised required more and more hardware to run. Because if
>> it requires more hardware to run, that's "better". Right?
> 
> Well, I didn't have the impression they deliberately *exaggerated* the minimum
> requirements - they *were* that high...

No - I got the impression they deliberately made the software 
inefficient so that people would mistake this for "powerful".

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