Technology

All games will be streamed, with a subscription

Don’t worry, you can Stream It From the CLOUD™️ for the low low price of 6x what a GPU would cost you over 5 years.

Definitely a shrinking audience for AAA games, but I don’t think it will be too bad gamers overall. Consoles will keep marching forward, as will Valve with the Steam Deck and Steam Machine.

I think the highest of the high end graphics stuff has long since hit diminishing returns. You can do a hell of a lot with yesterday’s hardware and less-than-bleeding-edge process nodes for newer hardware. Consoles have never used bleeding edge GPUs and they’ve always done fine with sales (across the whole market, if not always individually). I think we’re highly unlikely to see a repeat of the 1983 gaming crash.

No not really. AMD is still producing cards. Most people play on older or used cards anyways. Maybe like don't make Crysis level Graphics but other than that one year of less GPU releases won't kill gaming. Once the AI bubble bursts NVDIA might have lost a lot of edge over AMD in the gaming market and they'll scramble to get back

Well what do most victims of exploitation and abuse do?

Most people are willing to sell their morals. When nvidia comes crawling back it will be like nothing ever happened.

As a Linux gamer, nvidia was already on thin ice.

Also I had past them up on recentish purchases since they only really controlled the highest end of the market which I don't have the budget for. So honestly I have no intention of welcoming them back unless there is literally no other option. You made your bed.

That would be nice. But video cards are a VERY niche piece of engineering. The knowledge of HOW to make them is locked in a handful of people, and the ability to make them locked behind a very niche set of equipment that will ALSO be exploding in cost.

One does not simply start a graphics card company.

Intel, here's your big chance!

Easy enough when they're not selling

Well, they are helping out with that one...

I wish there were more laptops using AMD gpus here in Brazil. You basically can't find any laptop with an AMD gpu if you search for "gamer laptop" in Brazilian stores.

i think the latest is that china has managed to create a GPU that’s ~7 years behind. i’m not sure that’s “a GPU from 7 years ago” or “it will take them 7 years, acknowledging that there’s a known path so will take less time”

AFAIK they’ll have to figure out EUV or some other method of lithography at that scale, which they’re trying really hard at but it’s one heck of a difficult thing to do which is why only TSMC currently actually has it working

If consumers can't get new gpus, devs aren't going to bother spec'ing for them. This'll probably just result in a stalling of tech you'll see at home for a few years. Honestly that seems to be happening already. The leaps we'd seen in previous generations seem to be slowing anyway. Maybe this is just a plateau of tech for a while. Good for consumers when they accept that they don't have to always be on the bleeding edge.

I have gone all AMD graphics since converting to Linux. My 9060XT 16GB and 6600 8GB both are going strong.

Fuck NVidia.

It won't collapse. It'll lose a huge chunk of its stock price, but it both has other business to fall back on and its chips will still likely be used in whatever the next tech trend is - probably neural network AI or something.

People don't just use computers for gaming. If this continues people will struggle to do any meaningful work on their personal computes which is definitely not good. And I'm not talking about browsing facebook but about coding, doing research, editing videos and other useful shit.

The only future, is one where billionaires aren't in it.