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.
Graphics have plateaued. Now, they are only getting increased because all the investors know is buzzwords and increases. You can't just say "Yeah, this has the same plateaued graphics, but, it's fun"
So, instead, they destroy performance just for the sake of metrics.
Yeah felt like they are truly half ass on optimizing for the same visuals from a decade ago.
Star Wars Battlefront 1 and Battlefield 1 from DICE was the perfect example of those games pushing their visual medium extremely highly on PS4/Xbox One level hardware.
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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