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Gamers Are Reportedly Skipping GPU Upgrades Due to Soaring Prices — Paying Bills Takes Priority Over Chasing NVIDIA’s RTX 5090 (wccftech.com)

submitted 9 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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Well I am shocked, SHOCKED I say! Well, not that shocked.

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[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

The PC industry has turned into a scuzzy hellscape for average joes that just want to have decent options at realistic prices. They don't even care about gaming anymore, it's about YouTube and BitcoinBruhzz now.

I've still got a still pretty decent setup (5800x3d 4070ti), but it's the last stand for this guy I'm afraid. Looking over the past decade or so, I've honestly had better gaming experiences on consoles for mere fractions of the price of a PC build. Mods and PC master race nonsense aside. Sure you don't need a subscription for online PC playing (I rarely play online), but you can barely get a processor for what a PS5 costs anymore. Let alone a video card, which is upwards of a lot of people's take home pay for a month, the way things are going.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

When a new gpu was 500-900 usd it was fine.

But yeah, 2070rtx keeps chugging on

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 1 points 9 months ago

It's like how banks figured there was more money in catering to the super rich and just shit all over the rest of us peasants, GPU manufacturers that got big because of gamers have now turned their backs to us to cater to the insane "AI" agenda.
Also, friendly advice, unless you need CUDA cores and you have to upgrade, try avoiding Nvidia.

[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

First: Nobody gives a shit about the ray tracing craze, like not really. It applies to a thin margin of games, and is an option easily turned off or avoided. Seeing as AAA games are most of the ones developing for it anyway, and seeing as most of those are utter shit, yeah I'm not buying into the craze and spending obnoxious amounts of money on it.

[–] pr0sp3kt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago

Bah, AAA games aren't interesting for me anymore. I like more indies nowadays, specially I am a fan of Doom-like games, I liked Selaco, Turbo-Overkill, I liked ghostrunner as well...

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

Food, not ROBLOX.

[–] Nikki@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 months ago

the most i use my gpu for at this point is minecraft shaders, i dont plan on upgrading in 10+ years

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