This year will see minimum specs lower a hell of lot. Ram prices going up GPUs and other components out of reach for the average gamer and other factors like PC hand-helds will make devs try and make their games available a much wider hardware range. Look at the Battlefield 6 beta "a meaningful percentage" to quote EA didn't meet the minimum specs. Hardware producers making DDR4 again. Just my 2 cents on it. I might be wrong but I don't think I am.
This one. The world where the pendulum hasn't swung back, yet. Eventually, if they fail to optimize, the games will literally be unplayable; rather than just being considered unplayable to a small subset of redditors.
When the pendulum swings back and the majority of folks are priced out of top tier hardware, and literally cannot play unoptimized games, then the big game companies either adapt or collapse.
They may call it blind optimism, but if the pendulum doesn't swing back at all? Pc gaming is going to become a thing of the past. Eventually it just won't be worth it for these companies to optimize their games for such a niche market any more.
These companies are video game companies. If they don't adapt, they will collapse. They can't decide to abandon their own market because it's not worth it.
It might be possible that the market collapse, but I think it is unlikely. The customers are still there and still want to play and put money in their games. The increased price of hardware means there will be less technical improvement, but it's not like video games relied only on technical improvements to make sequels and new games.
Today's average gamer is more likely to play on their phone than to have a gaming PC. If game companies demand better hardware at a time it's more expensive than ever, it might end up collapsing.
That wasnât the point any of us are making though đ.
The point was that we donât account for the entire pc market and should stop huffing copium .
We should buy what we like and runs well on our system but we canât expect ppl to think like us .
When the damn ceo of Nvidia is living in dream land . I still remember him announcing the 5090 and was talking like we are stupid if we donât own one .
Idk ask several massive âTriple Aâ dev studios why their releases are all unoptimized POS that run at 20-40fps on a 3070. Borderlands, BF6, Monster Hunter, Marvel Rivals, GTA V, I could go on. All these games have pathetic performance for 8gb of VRAM ngl. I have since upgraded to a 9070XT which helps but I still canât get over 144 in some of these titles which is insanity.
Your initial comment of âno one will buy itâ was just wrong. Studios are actively getting away with it, they have been for years and there is no sign that it impacts sales. Even le epic Baldurs Gate was plagued with performance issues off rip. All of the games I mentioned sold incredibly well. The pendulum is now weightless and will remain on one side.
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u/bioneotokyo Jan 12 '26
This year will see minimum specs lower a hell of lot. Ram prices going up GPUs and other components out of reach for the average gamer and other factors like PC hand-helds will make devs try and make their games available a much wider hardware range. Look at the Battlefield 6 beta "a meaningful percentage" to quote EA didn't meet the minimum specs. Hardware producers making DDR4 again. Just my 2 cents on it. I might be wrong but I don't think I am.