Comment by alpaca128
15 hours ago
I'd it's more a convenient outcome of maximizing profits than premeditated. Not optimizing is cheaper for studios while Nvidia doesn't mind extra popularity for their DLSS feature.
Crysis 3 is over a decade old, still looks great and ran on hardware that wouldn't suffice for web browsing today. I haven't seen anything in games since then that justified a significant increase in system requirements.
What about hardware that could run crysis3 wouldn’t suffice for web browsing?
Well, it ran on my 9600GT, which I used in a desktop from 2016 and recently used that desktop with 16GB RAM for the last few weeks.
I was unable to see any site that used webgl, which is almost all games site and many charting and graphing apps.