So all the equipment on the old rack style is aging out rapidly due to obsolescence. These are in Datacenters that aren’t even built or making much profit yet. Now the Datacenters with the new rack style are increasing in cost along with the servers, and the chips themselves. Also some of these aren’t even built yet, let along paid for. So combine this with a dead internet because people who sell ads probably don’t realize how much engagement isn’t real anymore, and what do you have? Idk, but it doesn’t look good
The goal is to move gaming to “the cloud” as a part of their “You’ll own nothing and like it” philosophy…
Step one is to make home gaming prohibitively expensive…
I don’t even think it’s about gamers. Gamers are irrelevant these days. Those chips are for Crypto farms and AI companies. That you’re allowed to own one to play games is a privilege.
I wouldn’t consider myself to be Irrelevant… ;-)
And, honestly, a 2060 from 7 years ago is perfectly capable. Gaming is absolutely an enjoyable hobby without cutting edge technology.
I can scarcely tell the difference between 2160p and 1440p, and 1440p and 1080p unless I’m actively looking, though I am in my fifth decade so my eyes aren’t what they used to be. I’ve found lower resolution with better settings to generally be better than the converse.
I’ve been using a 3080 for years and plan to keep using it until it goes to meet my Voodoo 5 in the great recycling bin in the sky. I’m lucky enough to have a second x16 slot so I picked up a 100€ used GPU for LSFG. Instant doubled frame rate, so now I’m good through 2035.
It’s like a lot of things. There is a point where quality is no longer distractingly bad for most people, and you can spend more for higher quality and you appreciate it for a little while then forget about it until you go back to the lower quality. But if you spend enough time with the low quality stuff, it bothers you less.
Source: used to re-play the original Thief every few years.
While that is true this news doesn’t actually have anything to do with gaming. This was Nvidia telling other corporations that they’re going to price gouge an extra 15% for server GPUs (ironically making cloud gaming potentially that much more expensive).
I think the wider goal is to get everything in “the cloud” so they can charge a monthly subscription service.
I don’t think it’s a primary goal. But I can imagine several gaming companies thinking this is a great side effect. Make everything cloud subscription service.
I love gaming, but I will give up gaming first…go back and play my old favorites… Been a while since I launched Crysis3. ;-)
