We are getting screwed

[zonk47]

GPUs are likely to double in price over the next few months due to AI, RAM has already doubled in price, so unless someone new enters the market and floods it, then prices are only going to continue to rise. I literally sold my gaming PC a week or so ago, as I didn't need it, and the guy haggled about the price of it. It wasn't anything extra special, but it would play all games wihtout an issue.

Having seen the increase in RAM prices, I should likely have sold it for way more than I did. Someone asked me to build them a new PC, and 32GB of ram was nearly £200 alone. That's mental pricing, so for an above average PC you're now looking at well over £1000 whereas previously it was more around the £700-800 price range depending on the GPU. Once the GPU's double in price too, then it's just going to get worse. Optimisation of games would be a better way of doing things, rather than an increase in the cost of hardware, but Nvidia et al would prefer to sell to companies, who'll buy in bulk and increase profits more quickly, than average home users looking to buy a new GPU every 3 years or so. Even buying stuff direct from China is now getting more expensive that it's ever been, and some CPUs are actually cheaper to buy from the UK than from China. It's like the whole bitcoin mining drama all over again, but this time for AI.

EVERYTHING electronic is going to double in price, not immediately... they will try to spread it out to allay the shock... but every year the inflation is gonna be double digits.

 

[Francie]

its different in 20gb or lower games because the engine isn't as complex

not sure what you're trying to say here but it's simply false

 

[K3Nv4]

not sure what you're trying to say here but it's simply false

Should be pretty obvious how complex a game is to develop based on game size, engine, and assets. Bigger numbers = bigger problems.

 

[emmanu888]

Altman single handedly ruining the entire electronics industry with one contract! Really hope OpenAI crashes and burn.

 

[Francie]

Should be pretty obvious how complex a game is to develop based on game size, engine, and assets. Bigger numbers = bigger problems.

you said the engine is less complex in a game that takes less storage space
that was a false statement

 

[K3Nv4]

you said the engine is less complex in a game that takes less storage space
that was a false statement

100gb+ games are generally made by protected trademark assets owned by billion dollar game studios making it more difficult to code.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Glitches are expected in 100gb+ games, its different in 20gb or lower games because the engine isn't as complex but it can still provide fun.

Size has nothing to do with it, the engine isn't 100 gb, almost all of that is assets. Cutscenes, textures and voice acting take up a lot of space. Code does not.

 

[K3Nv4]

Size has nothing to do with it, the engine isn't 100 gb, almost all of that is assets. Cutscenes, textures and voice acting take up a lot of space. Code does not.

Yes and sometimes the dev studio wants a unique feature with that asset making it more difficult to code on top of the other HD texture packs people want to look amazingly perfect.

 

[Francie]

100gb+ games are generally made by protected trademark assets owned by billion dollar game studios making it more difficult to code.

true, however that is only positively correlated with engine complexity, not a direct cause and effect

 

[K3Nv4]

true, however that is only positively correlated with engine complexity, not a direct cause and effect

If you take a itchio type of engine like Game Maker that's not nearly as complex as Ue that's mostly ps1 style and what not it wouldnt be as difficult for a after school project type of game which would be understandable smaller in size, one person, lower quality assets they could take extra time with no pressure of release date and get something half decent.
You take a bigger game from a triple A studio that may want Ue it could be way more complex because you got a team of devs running around trying to figure out why xyz making it way more complex trying to figure out how to exactly fix that bug, then they miss the deadline making gamers upset over not wanting to release a pos, so factors play into engines what the goal is whose working on them etc...

 

[Francie]

If you take a itchio type of engine like Game Maker that's not nearly as complex as Ue that's mostly ps1 style and what not it wouldnt be as difficult for a after school project type of game which would be understandable smaller in size, one person, lower quality assets they could take extra time with no pressure of release date and get something half decent.
You take a bigger game from a triple A studio that may want Ue it could be way more complex because you got a team of devs running around trying to figure out why xyz making it way more complex trying to figure out how to exactly fix that bug, then they miss the deadline making gamers upset over not wanting to release a pos, so factors play into engines what the goal is whose working on them etc...

yeah I was giving you the benefit of the doubt but I'm not sure if you're trolling at this point, in fact I'm done responding to protect my own mental health

 

[K3Nv4]

yeah I was giving you the benefit of the doubt but I'm not sure if you're trolling at this point, in fact I'm done responding to protect my own mental health

Made no points about how my comment was wrong but wanted to say I'm wrong about everything else. Lmao