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Comment on Nvidia might not have any new gaming GPUs in 2026 — and could be 'slashing production' of existing GeForce models

JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

So that kind of means that the high-end AAA PC market will crash in the next years, right? No new GPUs, production stop for existing GPUs and rising prices for GPU & RAM in combination with inflation and a bad economy ensure that many people can’t afford a gaming computer. And that a lot of those younger gamers can’t afford to start this hobby.

And that means a shrinking audience for games, which need all this GPU power. If you’re an AAA publisher, it kind of looks crazy to invest multiple millions into a game that you can’t be sure that your audience will be able to afford to play

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4am@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
Don’t worry, you can Stream It From the CLOUD™️ for the low low price of 6x what a GPU would cost you over 5 years.

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chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Definitely a shrinking audience for AAA games, but I don’t think it will be too bad gamers overall. Consoles will keep marching forward, as will Valve with the Steam Deck and Steam Machine.

I think the highest of the high end graphics stuff has long since hit diminishing returns. You can do a hell of a lot with yesterday’s hardware and less-than-bleeding-edge process nodes for newer hardware. Consoles have never used bleeding edge GPUs and they’ve always done fine with sales (across the whole market, if not always individually). I think we’re highly unlikely to see a repeat of the 1983 gaming crash.

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starik@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
All games will be streamed, with a subscription

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- dustman0192@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Shhh! Don’t give them any ideas!
  
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  - fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    They’ve already been pushing this for like a decade now. GeForce now has been a thing since like 2015.
    
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  - CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    Way too late. This has been a talking point for a while. The AI bubble will burst but that doesn‘t mean they‘ll just return to their roots. Those new data centers need a use case and they need a good reason to keep building more.
    
    I guess the silver lining is that this plan B won‘t work out either so we‘ll have to see. But until then we better take good care of our current hardware. It will probably have to last a good while longer.
    
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