captaincharisma :
funny, i am just out of the min requirements with my Radeon HD 7770 lol
I'm not sure if I'd say just outside of the min reqs... since a 7870 is double a 7770. Twice the shaders, twice the bandwidth. Yeeaah. Anyway even something like a lowly RX460 (which start life at $110) would run this if a 7870 will (given the improvements to efficiency, increased clocks, and architectural tweaks that aid DX12 performance more so than old GCN). So it's not like it's too outlandish.
Anyway I for one am looking forward to this game a lot... Human Revolution was great and the previews for this one have me excited.
dstarr3 :
Why are there two different storage requirements? You'd think the install size would be the same regardless of the machine. Unless there's some new tech I'm unaware of.
Well the article points out that the devs are saying to play the base game you need 45, but they're recommending 10GB more so you have room for DLC. However with that said there are games that offer very large optional high-resolution texture packs (such as Skyrim) that do eat up a large extra chunk of space if downloaded. So it shouldn't really surprise anyone these days to see different storage requirements for minimum vs recommended, for various reasons.