They probably plan for the game to be on sale for a long time, so they don't want the game to look dated too soon, and aimed for future hardware. The specs won'

They probably plan for the game to be on sale for a long time, so they don't want the game to look dated too soon, and aimed for future hardware. The specs won't seem so high in a few years. Games are long overdue to use the full CPU instead of bottlenecking of single-core performance. I hope they've actually designed for multi-core CPUs, and made as many things data-parallel as possible.