&gt; I wouldn&#x27;t expect to play many games from this year on any computer from 2009.<p>I run many, many, many recently released (and not-yet-released) big-name 3D games on 5 [0] and 6 [1] year old hardware.<p>Console-first development has done <i>terrible</i> things to video game design, but it has let cheap bastards like myself get <i>enormous</i> mileage out of our gaming rigs.<p>(BTW: Cities runs juuuuuuuuust fine on my &quot;ancient&quot; PC. :) )<p>[0] Radeon HD 6950<p>[1] AMD Phenom II X4 955