Comment on Anon turns on raytracing

• ByteJunk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Let’s assume cutting out tomatoes and pickles saved $0.23 per hamburger.

  McDonald’s serves 6.5 million hamburgers a day.
  That’s $500 million extra profit for their shareholders.

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  • julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There’s actually a decent analogy there I think. The hamburger won’t cost less, because the service of customization it itself less efficient: serving customers with their preference of with/without is more expensive than just pickles for all. Likewise I imagine making a game that looks OK with/out RT is extra work than just with.

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    • Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There is no analogy. It’s comparing returning costs per product (you need a new tomato per 5 burgers) to a one time costs that can be cut during development. And additional copies of a game don’t generate more costs.

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    • ByteJunk@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There really isn’t.

      The op comment was that gamers need to buy expensive hardware so that developers could cut on features/optimization.

      The follow-up reply likened it to customizing your burger, but the better analogy would be for McDonald’s to remove all tomato and pickles (saving money), and the user had to buy it themselves to add to the burger.

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