In the Future, Concord will be a unit to measure how badly or not a game bombed.
"But they had 5 concords and still closed down!"
The Concord saga has been absolutely hilarious to witness and had a perfect ending. A game in the works for 8 years lasting barely over 8 days gives it direct entry into the Pantheon of All-Time Bombas. Everyone had assumed that Suicide Squad had bomba of the year on lock but then Concord snatched away the crown and sprinted all the way up Mt. Everest to ensure no other game can even dream of getting close to it. I spent more time reading about Concord on Resetera than I've spent there in years. On a site fully powered by delusion, the Concord OT was a sight to behold. People writing walls of text with superlative praise for every aspect of the game and questioning the intelligence of those who didn't buy it. On the other threads people came up with a laundry list of excuses to explain it's failure - having a price tag, a crowded market, being an Overwatch clone, lack of marketing and even gameplay related reasons - all of which are demonstrably false. Then you had the people in denial, insisting that the game was doing perfectly fine on console and one even suggesting that Playstation copies sold could be up to 5000% more than Steam. Elsewhere you had people endlessly roasting the game. Also interesting to see what happens to a Sony triple-A first party game when Sony doesn't spend a bajillion dollars building up hype and
their loyal lackey bloggers esteemed game journalists don't carpet bomb Metacritic with 10/10 reviews.
What an entertaining trainwreck it has been.
450W is already absurd, not as much as 600W but it's basically on the same level.
I'm not sure what the problem is with 450W or even 600W to be honest. We're past the days where a 650W PSU was good enough to power a gaming PC. These new GPUs have billions and billions of transistors working to deliver performance that is exponentially better than it used to be in those days. More importantly, if you are Nvidia and you have to release a new series of products that necessarily has to outperform your own 2 year old products, and you have not been able to achieve substantial efficiency gains (which is very, very, very hard), then what other option do you have? Do you just match your old hardware or not release anything at all?
I remember buying an 800W PSU around 2015 when the Witcher 3 came out. I upgraded to a 1200W PSU a couple of years ago when I built my new PC. Having a good quality PSU with headroom to spare is a good investment if you are into high end PC gaming IMO. Also, the GPUs don't run at 450W most of the time anyway. Power consumption only goes up with the most demanding software out there... not a huge concern for day to day use I think.
Cool , save my money this month
I stop my sub every time they give us a EGS store key
Not that this month's offering was of much interest to me to begin with, but I also cancelled my subscription on principle and mentioned this as the reason.
