The “lion’s share” could not? FIFA 11 ran pretty flawlessly on consoles running duo core processors and limited RAM. Based on Valve’s Steam survey for last month, over 42% of the computers are running at least 4 cores, and a total of over 95% are running at least a two core computer. FIFA 14, however, still is runnable by a large amount of the PC user-base.
Basically, if Crysis 3 and EA’s new Battlefield 4 can be run on recommended settings by a “lion’s share” of PC users, but FIFA 14 doesn’t run, then we’re talking about poor optimization by Electronic Arts, not poor specifications by the users. After hearing all of this, I’m really interested in seeing the benchmarks for XboxOne and PS4.
I’ll end this article with this. Best of luck, EA.