Gaming isn‘t standing still though, it‘s reverting. You can‘t get the same hardware you got 5 years ago for the same price anymore. Hardware ALWAYS got cheaper until recently. This is truly unprecedented.
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ampersandrew@lemmy.world 19 hours agoAI did a number to gaming, but truthfully, gaming technology was probably about to stand still anyway. Barely any studios can afford to make a game that’s so technologically advanced that it pushes our current hardware to its limits.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
paraphrand@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
And the GPU makers were already hitting a plateau around the first RTX cards.
Node shrinks have dried up. Games got use to those handing them major leaps.
binarytobis@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Oh please, plenty of games push my top tier hardware to its limits!
It’s just that they do it by not bothering to optimize their software.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
The handful of companies that can afford to spend $100M+? Sure. There are only so many of those, and plenty of them go bankrupt after spending that much.