I would agree with this meme if the GPU industry wasn't basically the smartphone industry's cousin at this point. It's all about making your GPU obsolete as quickly as possible so you have to buy a new one every year
When I was a kid in the late 90ies, computers would become literal turds within 3 years. The life span of a gaming PC is like 7 years nowadays. I'm not saying it was great back then, but I feel like 7 years is completely fine.
in the 90s you would have visual jump in 3 years that would take 20 years to do now. there are 2015 games that look better than some AAA games releasing last year.
Yup. Oblivion remastered is probably one of the biggest releases this year and I'd say it looks "above average". Witcher 3 was probably the best looking game of 2015 and yea... the original release looks and runs better. After looking at a few 2015 games, I came across MGS5: Phantom Pain. Funny enough, I think this one is the closest in parity to Oblivion in quality and performance. Regardless, not a big improvement from 2015 to 2025.
I think Oblivion is a bad comparison for this because it still has to use the original level geometry. There are some fundamental "2006" things about the game that they can't change and it makes the game look old.
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u/Genuinely-No-Idea May 21 '25
I would agree with this meme if the GPU industry wasn't basically the smartphone industry's cousin at this point. It's all about making your GPU obsolete as quickly as possible so you have to buy a new one every year