Soldato
I am a mainstream gamer and the stagnation since 2016 is getting worse.You can't have crappy ports and good sales when the hardware is weak (people not buying). Not as many feature, yes. But... you have Metro LL running great all around. How many followed in its footsteps? For sure it wasn't Hogwarts, TLOU and the sort... Yes, current gen of midend cards is crap. But there's nothing wrong with the tech, is the price/marketing.
BTW, you can always look at it like this: weak hw -> more pressure to optimize the game if they expect good sales.
Moreover, having good hardware does not guarantee that much. Look at processors, how many games make use of 12-16 cores?
My 2080 didn't turn into e waste thanks to upscaling tech. Best fine wine card I've had.
In the real world literally every gamer I know has sub £500 cards. I know very few people with cards over £500 and many of those cards are slower than an RTX2080.
Just look at Steam. The top card is still a GTX1650 which is slower than a GTX1060. But a few years ago the GTX1060 was in the same slot.
I think a lot of enthusiasts on here are sadly mistaken at what type of hardware most gamers have. So a lot here complain about their slow hardware, but their slow hardware is still going to be faster than the new hardware many might actually get in the next 12 months.
But you just have to look at the performance jumps at mainstream overall, especially with VRAM. Between 2009 and 2016,Vram went up from 512MB/1GB to 6GB/8GB.
Since 2016 it's stayed at 8GB, with only three models going past 8GB.
Then there is skrinkflation. Turing V1 was stagnation in the mainstream. Turing V2/RDNA1 was better. You had the RTX3060/RX6600 series jack up pricing and were poor price/performance improvements. The RTX7600/RTX4060 are the same. So since Pascal/Polaris there has been only 1 maybe 1.5 generations of decent price/performance improvements at launch at the mainstream IMHO.
This is done on purpose to push people to buy higher tier models.
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