There a lots and lots of great games that will run on computers that would be considered low power today. And I’m not even talking about older games.

I think there is a second order effect of this: it won't be worth making games for PC. At least, large budget games.

Its interesting because I was at Costco the other day and they weren't even selling PCs unless they were gaming ones. It seems most consumer electronics have switched over to laptops.

Also, this reminds me so much of the download more RAM ads back in the day.

I'm still hoping some future LLM is good and small enough for people to run local AI for everyday life.

intel makes gpus :). Maybe games will be finally made again in a way that a PC can run them without needing a 3k GPU in there to get toward half the refreshrate of your monitor.

gaming does not equate to only things like the last of us or cyberpunk which need extreme machines. a lot of visual fidelity can be reached still without having such a monster. Just need to not use certain features which are currently pretty much exclusive to Nvidia...

On the bright side, you’ll be able to play Skyrim-halo-Pokémon-Minecraft as much as you want.

If the AI bubble bursts and prices normalize because demand for AI hardware is reduced, then these companies might pay more attention to other markets like gaming again. But who knows the future anyway.

Regarding graphics capabilities, haven't we reached "good enough" like a decade ago? Does anyone actually want to see ultra realistic gore when attacking an enemy? I'd also submit that photorealistic art style is not the most popular one either nowadays except for a handful of special sims like race car driving.

At least you'll be able to get a Pi 5 for $700.