LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight PC Requirements Spark Outrage

Intense discussion has been had around the PC specs for LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight. The game requires some serious hardware in the recommended column. This is happening as PC gaming has a pricing crisis caused by AI. Over the last day or so one of the biggest discussions on Twitter / X has been an unlikely topic in the form of LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight. The discussion isn’t about anticipation for the game launching on 29th May this year, but instead the incredibly high PC specs you’ll need to play the latest LEGO Batman title. Heading to Steam and we can find the minimum and recommended requirements for the game, which you can view in the table below. While neither column provides you with the expected performance you may get with these specific combinations of hardware, there’s no denying that these are high-end components. On the recommended side the ask for a whopping 32GB of RAM paired with expensive CPUs and GPUs just makes no sense for a LEGO game, which is a game series known for its accessibility and family fun. Considering that PC RAM now costs more than a PlayStation 5, it seems tone-deaf of developer TT Games and publisher Warner Bros. to ask for this from their customers. While RAM is the posterchild for this problem, all PC components are becoming more expensive and more scarce as AI applications snap up components originally intended for the home market. The discussion around these specs make them seem even more ridiculous when compared to last title from TT Games in this franchise, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, which required far less horsepower. Now, the The Skywalker Saga did come out in April 2022, but such a huge increase in PC specs seems unwarranted. LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight will also launch on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and the Nintendo Switch 2. If the above PC requirements remain this way until 29th May, then we’re very worried about console performance, especially on the weaker machines here in the form of the Nintendo Switch 2 and the Xbox Series S. To give us a modicum of hope, there is a chance that said requirements may change. On the official website for the game, when selecting your platform for pre-order, a small message reads “System requirements for PC subject to change.”. All we can do now is wait and hope that some extreme optimisation happens before late May rolls around.