Technology

I think it'll have the opposite effect. Knowing the hardware won't change in the next year, they don't have to worry about making it compatible with the new cards. They can focus on building upon what they already have.

And as someone that helped pick out a fantastic PC for my little cousin in dec last year, she paid ~500$ for pretty decent hardware, and so far, she hasn't found a game in my library her PC can't handle. Including "wh40k Space Marine 2"

There's plenty of hardware for younger people that want to get into the hobby. You don't always need the absolute latest.

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.

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.