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/FalconX88]

nah, as long as it runs decent on lower end hardware there's no reason to not allow cranking up the graphics so it only runs (or not even runs) on the best cards. It's not like they have to add stuff to make that happen, it's all settings that are used for lower settings too.

The only problem here seems to be psychological in nature.

[u/1minatur → u/FalconX88]

The nice thing about having currently unattainable graphics settings is it allows it to age a bit better. 5 years down the road, a mid-range card may be able to hit those settings and keep it more up-to-date

[u/Merry_Dankmas → u/1minatur]

Im gonna get shit on for this but I dont care. Its the truth.

I gotta be honest here: its shit like this that put me off PC gaming. I used PC for well over a decade. My last build was during Covid. Its gotten so ridiculous now with part requirements that I just cant be bothered to try and keep up anymore. I have my laptop with a 4070 super and zen 7000 (dont recall exact model atm). If games run, great. If they dont, oh well.

Ive found myself instead gravitating much more to my ps5 and just running on performance mode and calling it a day. Tweaking settings, running benchmarks and comparing performance used to be fun because I could get an actual difference in performance and reap benefits from my efforts. Now if you dont have an $8k+ mega machine, new titles aren't gonna run well regardless of how you tweak them.

I get the feeling that for the past couple years, PC building has become more about numbers and flexing your benchmark results on the sub rather than actually playing the damn games. I actually want to play my games. Im not pursuing a 2% performance gain at 4k 60 fps. But that's where public attention always falls and both devs and hardware manufacturers know this. Devs know people will try to build insane machines so the customer can pick up the slack with powerful hardware. Manufacturers know people are addicted to benchmarking and will release insanely expensive new hardware with marginal performance increase because that's what the market has shown they want. Even if its the minority of the market, its the minority with a huge spotlight shining on it. PC based youtube channels are popular for a reason and they aren't talking about mid tier builds there.

If I have to play something at less than spectacular graphics settings and 50 fps on a PS5 then so be it. At least I can just turn it on and play my game rather than worry about not changing a shader slider and tanking the fps to single digit numbers. PC has grown stale and corrupted by number chasing. Its no fun anymore and seeing the way people talk about games like in this post proves it.

[u/MaXimillion_Zero → u/Merry_Dankmas]

I get the feeling that for the past couple years, PC building has become more about numbers and flexing your benchmark results on the sub rather than actually playing the damn games.

Then stop reading a sub focused on hardware and performance? There's far more great games releasing every year than you can actually find time to play.