System requirements make no sense: RDR1 VS RDR2

[MissYoda]

RDR1:
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
MINIMUM:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 64-Bit
Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-4670 / AMD FX-9590
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 / AMD Radeon R7 360
DirectX: Version 12
Storage: 12 GB available space
Sound Card: Direct X Compatible

RECOMMENDED:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 64-Bit
Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-8500 / AMD Ryzen 5 3500X
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA RTX 2070 / AMD RX 5700 XT
DirectX: Version 12
Storage: 12 GB available space
Sound Card: Direct X Compatible
Additional Notes: SSD recommended

RDR2
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
MINIMUM:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 - 64-bit
Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-2500K / AMD FX-6300
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 2GB / AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 150 GB available space
Sound Card: Direct X Compatible

RECOMMENDED:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 - 64-bit
Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-4770K / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
Memory: 12 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB / AMD Radeon RX 480 4GB
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 150 GB available space
Sound Card: Direct X Compatible

Which clown made this mistake at rockstar

[carlder2the]

Was going through the threads to see if somebody got an answer to that. Only found your thread by now.
Most likely -- what I read in some other context in the past -- that whoever is responsible for doing these recommended specs things... didn't have older hardware available.

... alternative: I hope it's not that "poorly optimised" haha

[Challenger]

It's the end of RTX 40 series, I seriously think that everyone who likes to play video games should already have 20 series at least. Moaning about it today makes no sense. Everything goes forward, but people wants to play new games with decade old systems.

"itS NoT nEw GaME itS 15 yEArS oLd" yeah, whatever.

[NED STARK]

Originally posted by Challenger:

It's the end of RTX 40 series, I seriously think that everyone who likes to play video games should already have 20 series at least. Moaning about it today makes no sense. Everything goes forward, but people wants to play new games with decade old systems.

"itS NoT nEw GaME itS 15 yEArS oLd" yeah, whatever.

cattle

[manu]

You'd think they used the old RAGE engine (from before GTA V) but no, this seems rebuilt on a modern RAGE, probably because of compatibility issues. Can you play it on anything lower than a GeForce 1000 Series? I don't know, will have to be tested. Should it be allowed to play on older hardware? Totally. But Rockstar probably didn't have the balls or people to bugfix to make the game playable on older DirectX. Remakes and ports of games from before 2010 (or in 2010 in case of RDR1) should not be hardware locked. Period.

[SundA]

Makes sense to me rdr2 they took time and resources to have smooth launch now rdr 1 is just a cash grab maybe to help gta VI development cycle.