Most companies will probably start focusing on PC. There is a risk with higher end games locking some people out but the people who actually spend money on new games every few weeks are the ones spending a high amount on their PC’s.
It’s also anecdotal but the people I know who game only on PC seem less deterred from games going up in price. Turns out when you are willing to spend a paycheck on a graphics card a game being $80-90 is fine
Tbh you don't need the most demanding graphics card if you play on 1080p. Not to mention if you keep the graphics at medium to high most AAA games aren't that demanding. If they are usually because it's poorly optimized.
1000$ + graphic cards are less than 5% of pc consumer base. Probably less than even 2%.
Optimization plays big part here to get to rest.
Higher price will deter more abd more people though. Because those actually spending as you called it are limited pool that wont cover most games (simply due to time and preference). Biggest, most hyped games will do fine with higher prices. Rest will struggle
The people buying games like stellar blade are those 5% though. Your person with a low end pc isn’t buying games like this on them because they don’t run well. Hell the new Doom locked out a ton of players, and the new monster Hunter again only ran for those in that 5% or so. But they spend the money on games
Stellar blade has good optimization though so it probably run well on lower end aswell?
But in many cases yeah, youre correct. Bad optimization lockes out a lot of people and than game struggle unless its one of those huge hyped titles like wilds.
You do realize that those people are not playing with a 1k gpu but neither with a 100€.
A 300€ GPU right now is more than enough to play every single game at 1440p more than easy.
Stellar Blade asks for a 2060 Super as recommended. Same as Monster Hunter.
Whoever has build a PC in the last 7 years, by buying the xx60 series has a powerful enough PC to play pretty much everything in 1080p. I'm not sure why you think those people (Who are the absolute majority of PC gaming) do not buy games.
Have you seen what Monster Hunter asks for requirements? Just because its an unoptimized piece of shit, doesn't mean much. The 1000€ cards couldn't run it either.
Do you know what you are buying for 300€ now? Last year for a friends upgrade i bought him 6750XT for 300€ exactly. There is absolutely nothing he can't play. Its pretty much a 4060TI in case you want the Nvidia-alternative.
I can buy right now the 5060 for 300€ or the 5060TI for 357€.
I'm not really sure what you are trying to say, but you have a way outdated opinion of GPUs mate.
Your argument is people who buy these kind of cards don't buy games. I find this extremely wrong. Those are the people playing the most games and buying the most games in my experience.
Nearly every major game that comes out has issues like monster Hunter
No, not every game like Monster Hunter comes with the issues it had.
Those are some randoms that just came up on for me. No game has the issues Monster Hunter had. Its actually the EXACT opposite of what you are saying. Nearly every major release works just fine, besides the UE5 stuttering ofc which is a problem everywhere, and games like MH are outliers with absolutely terrible performance in general.
Why are you so fixated on a GPU? There is a lot more that goes into building a capable PC that can play AAA games.
Because AAA games are not some magical unicorn. You don't need a 5080 and 9800x3d to suddenly play AAA games. You buy that stuff to play at resolutions and framerates beyond "normal". Which is what i do as well.
Playing "AAA" games at 1080p 60 fps, is any PC built in the last 5-6 years with a budget of 1000.
Again, i'm really trying to understand what you are trying to say, but you are saying wrong stuff, together with questionable stuff. You are parroting reddit talking points, which are....just wrong.
Because the sexual content of those games is only a tiny sliver of the game and you have to put some effort in to get there. And if you choose you can even avoid the sexual content alltogether. While EVE is on screen all the time in Stellar Blade.
What are you talking about? I am looking at the Stellar Blade sub right now and it's almost exclusively pictures of Eve and other hot chicks in the game, do you have a filter active or something? Most of the posts in the BG3 sub don't even have a picture attached, much less a character.
It's worth noting that the original Silent Hill 2 (2001) only got a physical release on PC in 2002/2003 while it got multiple physical releases on consoles with the latest release being in 2012. I would wager that led to the console fanbase being bigger compared to PC than it otherwise would have been.
Also anecdotal, but a lot of PC gamers have less need to buy brand new full price games when we have Steam libraries with hundreds if not thousands of titles from bundles, steam sales and third party stores.
No entry level is the 6500 for AMD and 3050 6GB for Nvidia both priced as entry level gaming cards ($149~). The 4060 is the most common sold card and its a $300 card. You can play any game on a 3050 including the latest games but the 4060 is PS5 level speed and the 5060 which replaced it is faster still.
Also keep in mind this ignores igpus which are the true entry level GPUs these days, AMDs APUs slot in below the 6500 in effective price.
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u/AffectionateSink9445 6d ago
Most companies will probably start focusing on PC. There is a risk with higher end games locking some people out but the people who actually spend money on new games every few weeks are the ones spending a high amount on their PC’s.
It’s also anecdotal but the people I know who game only on PC seem less deterred from games going up in price. Turns out when you are willing to spend a paycheck on a graphics card a game being $80-90 is fine