Last year EA announced that they were dropping the PC from their EA Sports development arm, the exception of course being Fifa. This leaves the market wide open and uncontested for 2K Sports and their 2K basketball simulator. You know what, despite the lack of competition, 2K bring out their basketball game on all platforms, including the PC, on exactly the same date, nice work 2K. Are you listening Ubisoft? 

Lets take a look and see the NBA 2K12 system requirements...

NBA 2K12 Minimum System Requirements 

OS: XP, Vista, or Windows 7 

CPU: Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz Single Core processor or equivalent (2.8 Ghz for Vista) 

RAM: 512 MB or more (1 GB for Vista) 

HDD: 8.5 GB of Hard Disk Space 

GFX: ATI x1300 or greater; NVIDIA 6600 or greater (DirectX 9.0c compatible card with Shader Model 3.0 support) 

DX: 9.0c 

Audio: DirectX 9.0c compatible 

Other: Keyboard or dual-analog gamepad

NBA 2K12 Recommended System Requirements 

CPU: 3 GHz Dual Core processor or equivalent 

RAM: 2 GB 

GFX: Nvidia Geforce 7900 GT / AMD equivilant 

GFX RAM: 512MB with Shader Model 3.0 support