>Computer tech plateaued years ago>Hardware developers keep acting like it's increasing>Prices keep going upIt's crazy how obvious the scam is at this point.It's funny how going from the PS1 to PS2, from FF7 graphics to FF12 graphics was going from $300 to $300 price-wiseNow going from the PS4 to the PS5, from RDR2 graphics to games that look worse than RDR2 is $400to $500, and not only that, the PS5 itself is only increasing in price and it's now $550 and it's only going to go up lmao
>>107501860It’s impressive how much game developers could accomplish with the PS1 specs
>>107501932Driver 1 had car shadow on the road.
>>107501932Games and hardware being so much simpler means you can spend a lot more time on optimization and you had to since the only way to patch the game would be to update the golden master for future sales, plus it was in a time when most of the people in the industry were actually passionate and smart and gave a shit about putting out a good product not only for the money but because they genuinely wanted people to enjoy their work.
>>107502052>plus it was in a time when most of the people in the industry were actually passionate and smart and gave a shit about putting out a good product not only for the money but because they genuinely wanted people to enjoy their work.What happened with this, why don't we have such people anymore? Is it because of soulless corpos?
>>107502173all my friends are former game devs that have worked on some massive titles for studios that became massive. some still working in the industry because they can deal with the shit and still love making things. basically the common theme i've told by some of these fellas is this:>have epic skills at programming>get dream job working at a studio making cool games for new hardware>pay is not impressive>renumeration, benefits etc. also not impressive>long fucking days, much overtime>especailly long in last few weeks of a title's development process (people sleep in office, under desks, in their car etc.)>stress is fucking insane>stress is so bad for some it causes health problems>pay isn't getting better>people lose passion for what they liked doing>get burned the fuck out after years of the same shitty conditions>leave the industry for goodmany many many such cases.>Is it because of soulless corpos?100% accurate.
>>107501860The reality is that past a certain point hardware is not expensive to make, past a point it will be enough to justify jacking up margins. Didn't some GDDR modules cost like $2 per 8GB?
>>107502289The capitalism destroyed video games and soul. Stop capitalism.
>>107501860If anything what plateaued is the actual uses for hardware this powerful.>But AISurely you don't expect everyone and their mother to run it locally?
>>107502464>If anything what plateaued is the actual uses for hardware this powerful.Web browsers require infinite RAM to run.
>>107502580Shit software abstractions need not apply.
>>107502464>If anything what plateaued is the actual uses for hardware this powerful.New video bullshit like hevc2/3/4/5 that requires a supercomputer to decode but the streaming jews save 5% costs on internet bandwidth.
>>107502895They would have better success with improving the efficiency of their CDNs. Or multicasting, were it not for the ISP jews.
>>107502895Also saves pirates quite a lot on storage
>>107503089Or we can just watch low res video 720p.I would rather watch something with soul at low res than 4k slop.
>>107501860There's no pc game worth playing that's been released in the past 5 years. Literally just learn to maintain your current hardware stack and focus on the thousands of games from the 90s/2000s that are actually good. You can literally spend multiple lifetimes going through the backlog.
>>107503238I play old games but since I am only interested in best of the best games I only have few games. I wish new great games were made.
progress over
>>107501860that is a very reductive chart
>>107502289wow, how EPIK and MASSIVE were these projects, you dumb fat fuck?
>>107502173>why don't we have such people anymore?Indie devs
>>107502289basically this
>>107502173with increasing developer studio sizes, making video games became just another job.and the average person hates/doesn't particularly care for their job
>>107504596>that is a very reductive chartThe chart is real and correct. Progress is dead.
>>107501860ps6 needs to have a 40gb split of 24gb ram and 16gb vram. 32gb x2 upgrade will not cut it.
>>107501860The PS5 is 6 years old
>>107506585you sick FUCK
>>107506585No.
>>107506585Nah it's only 5. The Switch is 8 years old though.
>>107506420It simplifies things to the point of being outright wrong. The person who made this chart is a monkey who only looks at clockspeed, thinks "BIG NUMBER BETTER" and claps while jumping up and down. The PS4 cpu is some dogshit jaguar CPU from the bulldozer era that wouldnt be better than the zen 2 CPU in the PS5 even if it had an 8ghz clockspeed. That is a far better increase than 2.2x, its atleast 5x better bare minimum
>>107507950>It simplifies things to the point of being outright wrong. The person who made this chart is a monkey who only looks at clockspeed, thinks "BIG NUMBER BETTER" and claps while jumping up and down.Then tell me what is really better if not clockspeed and how did it gave us better games.>That is a far better increase than 2.2x, its atleast 5x better bare minimumIt's maybe 3x increase. Even if it was 5x it's less than progress we had in the past.And if it's 5x then show me all those great games that use this great performance.
>>107501860Well, that's great.Now we basically have supercomputers in our living rooms and devs can stop worrying about pushing out more triangles and can concentrate on what really matters - design and creativity. Right?
>>107508348>design and creativity. Right?The jews will not allow this.
>>107508146why the fuck are you even on /g/ when you're this tech illiterate?
>>107501932Imagine how much they could do with ps5 if they weren't capitalist pigs
Dennard scaling is long dead, anon, and Moore's law is probably dead nowadays too. We reached the end of what silicon is capable of.
>>107505564>>107502289At the same time, some of the greatest games were made by those smaller teams under immense crunch with 14 hour workdays and weekends, sleeping under their desks and subsisting off of pizza and coke.
>>107501932You can do so much more when you don't hire nepo babies and other incompetent fools.
>>107501932They didn't outsource to JavaScript Indians back then.
>>107508794>We reached the end of what silicon is capable of.You gay morons keep saying this and yet process node PPAs improve drastically and we still have several foundries world wide that can shit out ARM chips at 200million xtors/mm2
>>107508980yes. development costs were far less, no marketing department screaming at them to include/remove things too. people think today's game developers are somehow wealthy and driving around in $100k sports cars. they're catching a bus/train to work and making enough money to pay the mortgage and feed themselves.
>>107508794progress = dead
>Computer tech plateaued years agoThis is what coomsumers actually believe lmao
>>107512062your average consumer doesn't understand how a lot of technology works. things are only getting worse.
>>107508727I am a computer expert.
>>107509431>You can do so much more when you don't hire nepo babies and other incompetent fools.West is collapsing because of nepotism and nepo babies.
>>107512062This is true.
>>107501860Wait, the ps5 can only do 10 triangles per second? How the fuck can you even play games on that thing?
>>107512017it's never the worker doing the things that become filthy rich from what they made
>>107515350This is why we need communism.
>>107508980Often times the difference there is they actually cared deeply about what they were making to the point they often wanted to be there for those crunch hours to make sure everything worked out. Not ALWAYS of course, but the problem comes from current management/leadership expecting the same kind of sincere commitment from a mass of jaded, mentally exhausted wage slaves.
>>107512017In the 90s devs from id and stuff WERE driving around in 100k cars
>>107517196big if true
tech is over
>>107501932games were just getting better and better until the Recession happened. >>107502052>>107502173it's because WE HAVE NO FUCKING ECONOMY to make good games. anymore. everyone has to be risk-averse or 1 bad game will nuke their company
>>107519644There are no mid-budget or even low budget games or even movies or tv shows coming from large studios, everything has to make a billion dollars at launch or be written off as a fucking failure.
