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| Topic | Are video game consoles about to become obsolete |
| adjl 03/09/24 5:34:56 PM #12: | Yellow posted...
CPUs have flatlined for now but GPUs are still growing. GPUs are way more powerful anyway. More and more things will be offloaded to the GPU from here on out. They're still growing, but there are substantial diminishing returns in terms of player experience. Paying hundreds of dollars for a very marginal increase in visual fidelity isn't overly appealing. Meaningful growth now is going to be more along the lines of rendering more entities at once or otherwise having games that are more computationally complex (which is generally more of a CPU thing, as I understand it), or improvements in form factor like what the Switch did (which the Steam Deck has followed up and the PS Portal has quasi-mimicked). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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