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?

[u/TheGGspot]

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

[u/Ornery_Weakness_8168]

require 5090 for max settings

looks inside

max settings at native 4k 60fps needs 5090

Gaming at max settings is never worth it, this dev was just transparant that max settings needed 5090 to be playable, cos in most modern games it isnt without 5090.

[u/lemonylol → u/Ornery_Weakness_8168]

I'm confused at what point in the past OP assumed this was different. Must be using hindsight bias to assume everyone could play Oblivion at max settings in 1080p over 60fps.

[u/zgillet → u/lemonylol]

I think the difference now is that there is no future to look forward to when it comes to hardware. Max settings used to be for future cards.

[u/alphazero927 → u/zgillet]

You've got foresight shorter than a private equity firm if you truly think there's no future for hardware. What's likely to happen is that the AI boom either stagnates or collapses at which point Nvidia and AMD will go back to producing for gaming systems. Right now they just straight up don't have the production capacities necessary to keep up with demand, but demand cannot be infinite so either their production ramps up to match or demand drops to pre-chatGPT levels

[u/PhTx3 → u/alphazero927]

Or they try to arbitrarily keep bumping the prices and some Chinese manufacturer fills the gap. Which seems like what is going on with rams.

Regardless I see this climate as a good opportunity to talk about corporate vs human interests. I doubt anyone would disagree we are leaning too much on corporate side and that should be regulated.