My graphics card is so damn old that I don't even remember what it is. Maybe a 1080?

I don't think anyone's game concept is being held by back technology at this point; the real block is capitalism's demand for massive guaranteed returns on every launch which stifles innovation and ties up all the investment capital in bloated sequels and rehashes.

Nah, someone else would be a greedy fuck instead. He's a symptom of the system, not the cause.

Gaming has never been more accessible to people on a budget. The indie gaming scene is massive right now.

In the 2000s ATI (bought by AMD) was often releasing higher end cards than Nvidia. Matrix/3dfx were the prior generation and weren’t cheap either.

Love them or hate them, Intel and their decades of integrated graphics are ultimately responsible for there even being a market for affordable GPUs.

It's kind of the problem with plotting CEO decisions to an individual. Maybe if there weren't a Jensen Huang nvidia wouldn't have leaked whatever they did to a chinese spy. But it's just like when united health was Luigi'd, There was the chilling effect sure but new CEOs in, and everythings back to business as usual.

Bottom line, NVidia's making a killing, I find it hard to believe that the shareholders would ever tolerate someone who wouldn't have also sold out to the AI bubble.

The AI strain on gaming hardware prices is sort of baked into the tech. Graphics cards are good at rendering because they use floating points. AI models that exist also need floating points.

3D gaming is more or less inevitable, LLMs are probably inevitable, demand for better graphics is inevitable. The details may have worked out differently, but the tech and the economics would be 90% the same without any individual contribution.