How screwed are they?

[SwimOdin]

Things are getting weird, and a little worrying (if you worry about this stuff, which you shouldn’t) with hardware right now. The RAM shortage is getting preposterous, and in my life there’s never been a point where six years after a console comes out, it’s more expensive, not far less. I’m so glad I bought my laptop when I did, it’s 33% more than when I bought it four months ago.

Do you see a point where, say, graphical fidelity stalls for the next decade? Do you care?

Please clap I mean tell me what you think.

[PenguinBoss]

Personally, I'd welcome it if graphics stalled. Maybe we'd get something unique if developers were forced to work within the confines of current tech.

[SwimOdin]

DLSS5 is certainly not the answer I want.

[SwimOdin]

Epic lays off 1000 employees, the base PS5 is now $150. This recession is going to be a bloodbath in games, industry is going to contract.

[Raptorpat]

I remember the last big recession when the games companies said this industry was recession-proof and I'm looking at these prices and what are they thinking?

[GeneralWhiskers]

Graphics, though still improving in detail, haven't really had major leaps in overall fidelity in a while. Seeing things slow down would be nice, having to drop $1500 every 3 or so years on a graphics card kind of sucks.