Nah gaming doesn’t even make a dent in their revenue. Gaming demand means nothing to their supply, demand and pricing.
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devolution@lemmy.world 1 day agoLet’s not forget AAA games are the games that use gpus the hardest gaming wise and they are bombing at record levels because they are deritive garbage and AA games are doing more with less.
Add that to the AI bubble bullshit and it’s just a perfect storm.
lemmyout@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 1 day ago
I really would like to know if AAA games are bombing because they are overpriced microtransaction hell or if they are bombing because many people haven’t been able to buy their new gaming PC because of those GPU prices in the last 5 years and now we do not have the install base to run them
devolution@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The micro transactions and shittiness mainly.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 day ago
This! My steam deck with an igpu has been running all the new games fine. Granted not like 120+fps fine, but my desktop has a two generation old card and god only knows about the CPU and it’s hitting 120 easy on the games I play. Which of the games I play, cyberpunk is the most resource intensive.
warm@kbin.earth 1 day ago
That people keep buying into... so the cycle continues.
MangoCats@feddit.it 1 day ago
More’s the shame. Our last console was a PS3, it was such a non-fun waste of time that we never bought into the 4 or 5. I used to buy a new PC title a year or so before than, really none new since StarCraft II.
SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 1 day ago
For a while now games are sold without a lot of optimization, expecting the customers to just buy more powerful hardware.
Burninator05@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
My bet is microtransactions and a lot of them not being great lol games. You don’t need a 5090 to play a AAA game unless you’re maxing out the visuals.
warm@kbin.earth 1 day ago
Any GPU from the last few generations should be able to run any game without any problems. A lot of games are just made like complete ass unfortunately, you know because of profits ultimately.