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I don't know if that needs any evidence of the person was simply around back then. Basically this is saying that 2001 hardware wouldn't be able to run the new software in 2007, which at least to my recollection, is absolutely true. Not only is there 32bit vs 64bit, we also started to see more cores rather than the standard single core in 2001

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I agree with you that this claim doesn't need evidence, but for anyone interested.

Starcraft 2 came out in 2007. These are the original system requirements. https://www.lifewire.com/starcraft-ii-wings-of-liberty-requi...

I remember receiving the game as a gift and having to tell my grandma that my single core PC wouldn't be able to play it. I think my PC was only 3 years old at the time, not even 6.

I think you're miss-remembering. Starcraft 2 Wings of Liberty was released in 2010. I played it on release on my Core 2 Quad/GeForce 8800 GTS machine that I built in 2009.

Blizzard announced they were making SC2 in 2007. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarCraft_II:_Wings_of_Liberty... there wasn't even a closed beta until early 2010.

Regardless, the minimum requirements you posted are single core CPU's.

It's a bit further apart than the mentioned dates, but I bought two machines:

* 1998: 32-bit, 500 MHz, single core, 128MiB of RAM IIRC (we later upgraded it to ~500 MiB). 7 GB of disk.

* 2007: 64-bit, ~2.5 MHz, dual core, 4, later 8 GiB of RAM. Hundreds of GB of disk.

There's essentially an order of magnitude improvement…

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