alt Hacker NewsIt means lots of people will give up the hobby.
Let's be real, the twitch FPS CoD players aren't going to give that up and play a boring life simulator.
This has the potential to harm a lot of businesses from hardware to software companies, and change the lives of millions of people.
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That doesn't sem very plausible, how many people are driven away from CounterStrike or like League of Legends because the graphics weren't as good as Cyberpunk or whatever?
Theres a LOT of games that compete with AAA-massive-budget games on aggregate like Dwarf Fortress, CS, League, Fortnite, people are still playing arma 2, dayz, rust, etc Rainbow Six: Siege still has adherents and even cash-payout tournaments. EvE: Online, Ultima Online, Runescape, still goin'
These games have like no advertising and are still moneymakers. Eve and UO are like 20 and 30 years old. Heck, Classic WoW!
Most CoD players are on console or mobile, not PC
Cod devs aren't stupid. They will design a game for the hardware their target market can get their hands on.
Huh? No? It means that the overall platform is already at 'good enough' level. There can always be an improvement, but in terms of pure visuals, we are already past at a point, where some studios choose simple representations ( see some 2d platformers ) as a stylistic choice.
It gonna be ok.
Let's be real, CoD only appeals to a small community in the whole planet.
>It means lots of people will give up the hobby.
Oh, we can only hope!
>This has the potential to harm a lot of businesses from hardware to software companies, and change the lives of millions of people.
Including millions of gamers, but for the better.
PC gaming will be fine even without 8K 120fps raytracing. It will be fine even if limited to iGPUs. Maybe even better off if it means new titles are actually playable on an average new miniPC. More realistically I guess we get an AMD/Intel duopoly looking quite similar instead.
It will probably be a bigger blow to people who want to run LLMs at home.