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This sounds more like hardware manufacturers haven’t provided a good enough abstraction layer across their devices, or they did (vulkan) but everyone is just stuck on bad apis that don’t properly map to the abstractions for the hardware. Or even more likely the publishers cheaped out and pushed something to release when it wasn’t ready like they have been forever.

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Shadywack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It’s also a lack of specialized talent. There’s lots of great “talent” at game devs and even middleware devs. There’s just not much great talent that deals with renderers and API development. The vast majority of devs just lean on the middleware developer to push out the renderer codebase. In a situation like Bethesda running their own studio engine, they just don’t have the right people for it. This plagued the 90’s when people were trying to code for Glide, OGL, DX5,6,7,8, and 9. Many studios folded because they couldn’t get their tech to work with hardware acceleration.

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- uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  There’s just not much great talent that deals with renderers and API development.
  
  *for current wage
  
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  - Shadywack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Excellent point.
    
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