Its been 10 years since the original Starcraft was released. The minimum requirements back then were a poultry:
- Windows 95/98/NT
- Pentium 90 MHz processor or higher
- 16 MB RAM
- DirectDraw-Compatible SVGA Video Card
- DirectX 2.0
- Double-Speed CD-ROM (Quad Speed for Cinematics)
- 80 MB of disk space
- Mouse/keyboard
Whilst, today's latest StarCraft II requirements are:
- Windows® XP/Windows Vista®/Windows® 7
- 2.6 GHz Pentium® IV or equivalent AMD
- 128 MB PCIe NVIDIA® GeForce® or ATI Radeon® card or better
- 12 GB available HD space
- 1 GB RAM (1.5 GB required for Windows Vista®/Windows® 7 users)
- DVD-ROM drive
- Broadband Internet connection
- 1024X720 minimum display resolution
So an increase of:
- x28 CPU speed
- x64 Memory
- x154 Disk space
So, extrapolating in a silly fashion, StarCraft II in 2020 will require:
- 72.8 Ghz processor (this is unlikely due to heat-constraints, I suspect
- adding more cores is likely)
- 64GB memory
- 1.8TB (1848GB) of disk space
Scary...
