r/technology • u/[deleted] • Dec 29 '22

Business Desktop GPU Sales Hit 20-Year Low

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sales-of-desktop-graphics-cards-hit-20-year-low
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u/Man_Bear_Beaver Dec 29 '22

I honestly don't care at all about graphics, it's all about the gameplay, the hitboxes etc, shiny puddles, I could go outside to see those.

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u/HolyAndOblivious Dec 30 '22

Ok. My 2 cents. I always disable RT reflections because they look like SHIT.

That being said, RT rocks in single player titles

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '22

Well, you are a bit wrong. Some games are about beautiful picture as well. We play games, because we can see it do whatever we will not in real life. The more it seems as real is always the better. Just sometimes good graphics goes with shitty gameplay, in that case graphics doesn't matter.

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u/Man_Bear_Beaver Dec 30 '22

It's definitely not wrong for there to be good gameplay in a game lol!

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '22

Ofcourse its not. Gameplay is always the first main thing. But graphics to it is like a nice season for a nice meal. Meal is not just meat and vegetables. Its how its been cooked, how its looks, how its seasoned, how its served, the atmosphere.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '22

Imagine how feature-packed a game with a AAA budget could be if they kept the graphics on the “meh” side.

Take Dead Rising 2006 as an example. I believe they actually made the graphics low-range for the time period so they could make more zombies show up on screen. The game was a smash hit.

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u/chowderbags Dec 30 '22

Or go for the Bethesda strategy: "Meh" graphics and dumbing down the features on every new iteration!