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Comment by newsclues

4 days ago

It means lots of people will give up the hobby.

Let's be real, the twitch FPS CoD players aren't going to give that up and play a boring life simulator.

This has the potential to harm a lot of businesses from hardware to software companies, and change the lives of millions of people.

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baobun  4 days ago

PC gaming will be fine even without 8K 120fps raytracing. It will be fine even if limited to iGPUs. Maybe even better off if it means new titles are actually playable on an average new miniPC. More realistically I guess we get an AMD/Intel duopoly looking quite similar instead.

It will probably be a bigger blow to people who want to run LLMs at home.

jonway  4 days ago

That doesn't sem very plausible, how many people are driven away from CounterStrike or like League of Legends because the graphics weren't as good as Cyberpunk or whatever?

Theres a LOT of games that compete with AAA-massive-budget games on aggregate like Dwarf Fortress, CS, League, Fortnite, people are still playing arma 2, dayz, rust, etc Rainbow Six: Siege still has adherents and even cash-payout tournaments. EvE: Online, Ultima Online, Runescape, still goin'

These games have like no advertising and are still moneymakers. Eve and UO are like 20 and 30 years old. Heck, Classic WoW!

  • deaux  4 days ago

    I wonder if all the games you named combined surpass what Mihoyo makes off the likes of Genshin Impact.

    • jonway  4 days ago

      Dunno (maybe wow?) but is it the most expensive graphics hardware giving AAA all the money/air or because they have a great reputation as games, solid consistent advertising, a strong network effect and a spot on the top of new release lists?

      I feel like league of legends has, wrt the genshin $s, I honestly haven’t checked!

jabroni_salad  21 hours ago

CoD is currently 300GB on disk due to all the textures. I suspect a lot of players would be happy with a modest regression in fidelity if it means the game can run smoothly on affordable devices and leave some room for their other games too.

A4ET8a8uTh0_v2  4 days ago

Huh? No? It means that the overall platform is already at 'good enough' level. There can always be an improvement, but in terms of pure visuals, we are already past at a point, where some studios choose simple representations ( see some 2d platformers ) as a stylistic choice.

It gonna be ok.

  • newsclues  4 days ago

    My pc is good enough for now but it’s years old and when it dies, then what? You want me to give up gaming and start hanging out at your local bar?

    • A4ET8a8uTh0_v2  4 days ago

      It is not a question of want. Gaming will exist in some form so I am simply uncertain what you are concerned about.

      Can you elaborate a little? What, exactly, is your concern here? That you won't have nvidia as a choice? That AMD will be the only game in town? That gpu market will move from duopoly ( for gaming specifically ) to monopoly? I have little to go on, but I don't really want to put words in your mouth based on minimal post.

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hyghjiyhu  4 days ago

Cod devs aren't stupid. They will design a game for the hardware their target market can get their hands on.

pjmlp  4 days ago

Let's be real, CoD only appeals to a small community in the whole planet.

coldtea  4 days ago

>It means lots of people will give up the hobby.

Oh, we can only hope!

>This has the potential to harm a lot of businesses from hardware to software companies, and change the lives of millions of people.

Including millions of gamers, but for the better.