Comment on This generation of gamers are spoiled(?)
Chronographs@lemmy.zip 4 days agoThe thing is those games could very well run much better (and often will after they’ve been patched a few times) there’s just an over reliance on dlss-style upscaling to cover up performance issues, coupled with games being patchable post launch meaning games are pushed out before they’re ready. This has been made worse by the more recent practice of laying of the entire dev team if the game doesn’t sell well which meaning those patches will never come. Add to that the current astronomical prices of building a top-end system further necessitating the need for optimization and people have quite a few reasons to complain.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 4 days ago
I also put the blame on developers focusing on the console version first, then just porting that to a PC version as little more than an afterthought. Often, the game could work far, far better on PC if they’d made it for PC in the first place.
I understand why they do it. They want to reach the largest market possible, and the performance gap means it’s possible do console --> PC port with minimal changes, but doing a PC --> console port would require a massive effort in optimization to get it to run smoothly on the limited console hardware. But I do wish they’d spend a little more effort optimizing things for PC.
Chronographs@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
That isn’t exactly new though, they’ve been doing that forever. In addition, though consoles are now much closer to computers architecture-wise but developing for console means only supporting a handful of configurations which still makes it much easier.