Comment on NVIDIA To Bring Back The GeForce RTX 3060 In Q1 2026 To Tackle Current-Gen GPU & Memory Shortages
TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
I wonder if we’ll see a shift towards graphical stagnation with upcoming game releases. With RAM and GPUs being so expensive, there will be a lot fewer customers that can afford the hardware to play upcoming, graphically-demanding games and so targeting that demographic is economically unwise.
It sucks that this is the situation we find ourselves in, but I’m actually kind of interested in what will happen. A new age of hyper-optimisation would be so awesome.
A new age of hyper-optimisation would be so awesome.
No, just basic and regular optimization. There are plenty of talented devs with YouTube channels that have shown that most AAA games are horrendously optimized, and in some cases can see 2x or even 3x+ performance gains with proper optimization.
I don’t know man. Maybe I just don’t understand it but games like BF1 for the most part look just as good as games today.
BF1 hits the in-engine frame limiter with modern cards on 4K and maxed out settings.
Yet new games for the most part run like dog shit.
Plenty of indie games that dont need big beefy cards
I imagine this would affect PC-only or PC-first games. I think it’s more likely that publishers will focus on releasing games for consoles rather than PC. I’m also wondering if this week drive more console sales in the future.
guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip 4 days ago
Or perhaps game devs can focus on optimizing to appeal to lower end pcs
TheRealKuni@piefed.social 4 days ago
They really should anyway. The Switch showed almost a decade ago how popular the handheld form factor can be when powerful enough, and the Steam Deck has capitalized on that beautifully. At this point a significant component in my purchasing of games is looking for that “Steam Deck Verified.”
Samsy@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Hades 2 for example. Steam deck game of the year. And it is not an eyecandy GPU eater.
VOwOxel@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
While actually being beautiful eye candy!
SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 3 days ago
To better use the computing power they have, too.