I've been waiting for GPU prices to come back down to earth since 2019. I really hope you're right in a few more years.

I have an 8th gen i7 that's still rocking it, also a 4070 which helps a lot too. Truth be told, I haven't encountered a game I /want/ that requires sky high specs anymore.

If they keep pushing their cloud renting models it will last forever.

Good ending for the gamers, bad ending for the devs...

Second secret ending: the games you have won't run on your pc.

-someoone who waited 5 years to play fallout 76 after buying it 2 weeks after launch.

Real ending: your gpu dies in a year or so and you can no longer play anything ever.

Already did this last year and according to Steam data many others, too.

I have used an Xbox Gamepass trial a few times. Its a good deal honestly, especially if you play a variety of games.

Except its competing with essentially a 40+ year backlog of games I own that Inhave collected over my life. I have zero need for it.

And frankly, its biggest competition is something like HumbleBundle, where you can often get a pile of games per month to keep without the subscriotion.

Maybe this is a good time to visit the hundreds of never-installed games we have in our steam libraries.

Reducing.. to 16GB?

It's over

a lego game?? when I played lego games circa 2011 AD I didn't know what ram is

Lego Star Wars The Complete Collection from 2009 has a minimum RAM requirement of 156MB. Yes, megabytes. 512MB if you're using Vista (God help you)

Just thought I'd point that out.

> PUNCH TREE

Nethack forever.

If this happens, there's a good chance companies like Nintendo and Sony will double down on trying to erase emulation as an option. Anyone developing emulators will be targeted (even moreso than they already are), and ROM sites will be taken down making it harder for the average person to find games. Now is a great time to build up an offline ROM collection ahead of this potentially happening in a few years, even if storage is currently expensive.

Yeah, I would sooner game on a Pi or N150 mini PC than touch fucking cloud gaming. Decade old second hand laptop if necessary.

stadia people got lucky as they got full refunds on everything after it shut down. what a deal tbh

Plus why would anyone use the expensive ram ssds and gpus to make a datacenter for videogames when they can hop onto the AI hype before it's gone?

Unfortunately a lot of secondhand hardware is destroyed. Storage devices due to privacy, other components because corporations are unwilling to expend the man hours needed to sell off perfectly good hardware and instead choose an e-waste recycler they can write off as an expense.

I mean, I'm happy to Maguyver my old laptop, I'm just not sure how much utility that last 8gb of ddr3 will deliver to my £5000 gaming rig

You'll need right to repair first.

Unironically, yes. Also,ssh nethack@alt.org(or some other server) strongly recommended. My first ascension is still one of my most memorable gaming experiences.

Plays another 666 hours of Doom 2 and all the custom wads. I particularly love Zone 300 and the DSDA Doom engine.

When I think about it, between emulators and various icon collections I have enough games to last me for the rest of my life. And that's a feeling of being free, not trapped.

I also have to do a shout-out for analog enjoyments. Interacting with the natural world and exercising all of your senses are just straight-up good for you.

I have a harddrive with about 2.7 TB of Ps2 isos. This should be enough for the next 10 years.

I think cloud gaming will be picked up because people are sheep already

We already normalized installing malware under the guise of anticheat. Anything goes past this point.

Unfortunately, you cannot buy gaming gpus, not because AI data centers are buying them, but because Nvidia would rather produce server GPUs than gaming GPUs. Same for memory. Once the AI bubble bursts, there still won't be gaming GPUs to buy unless Nvidia and everyone else switch production, and you cannot put a datacenter GPU in a regular computer.

When the COVID recession started, dairy farmers were seen dumping surplus milk rather than sell it at a lower price. I foresee a version of this where companies start destroying silicon to keep the supply low rather than let the prices drop to sane levels.

Older PCs and consoles are only cheap now because people buy newer stuff.

When the newer stuff becomes prohibitively expensive, old hardware and consoles will SKYROCKET as demand goes up, because nobody is MAKING more.

Hoard tech now. We're not that far away from 2012 laptops going for $500.

4th ending doesn't matter because after the AI bubble pops companies will do mass layoffs to reduce costs and nobody will have the income needed to buy components at normal price. By the time things start to stabilize there'll be some new reason consumers are priced out of the hardware market.

you can just use sodium + lithium + ferritecore and whatever other optimization mods you like for a much better speedup and no loss in quality at all