r/pcmasterrace • u/TheGGspot • Aug 11 '26

Discussion Should developers stop making games that require 5090 for max settings now that the card is clearly not for gamers and is accessible to 0.1% of community?

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I get that the games need better hardware to dun better, but who are they really making the game for if you need a 6000$ GPU at this point

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u/Cruzz999 Aug 11 '26

Unpopular opinion, I'm sure, but not playing at 4k ultra is fine. If you like the game and later get a better gpu, being able to turn up details is a good thing. I wouldn't even think it was necessarily wrong if no hardware on the market could do 4k 60 fps at the moment of release. Hell, look at Crysis.

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u/Shimano-No-Kyoken NixOS | 9950X3D | 5090 | 96GB 6200 CL30 | 4 TB Aug 11 '26

Crysis is the ultimate example of devs miscalculating what future hardware would be capable of in an era when hardware capabilities were progressing and when hardware was priced in a way that was accessible to most people. What we have now is hardware that seems to regress in capabilities (4Gb gpus) and most people are priced out of upgrading