It's amazing to see such positive Wastland 3 reviews. Will try to clear my backlog and current games enough to get to it quickly. Currently reading the novellas, and it's nice to see that they seem to bring back some characters, like
Angela Death. Which, btw, is still an amazing name.
Ooof, that's such a bad take. Hope the dev patches that shit out ASAP. Or works together with people with disabilities to make that less fucked up. It's ok to have someone express hardship, but it shouldn't make people feel bad about their lives.
I appreciate them pushing tech but 80% of the things they've done over the past 2 years were really unnecessary.
They cluttered the market full of cards that are about to become obsolete by a 300$ card (3060) when it releases early next year. They didn't need to do 1660 cards. They didn't need to do Super cards. They should have kept Ray tracing and DLSS exclusive to the 2080 cards while pushing 2060/2070 harder at a reduced cost imo. The fact that the 1060 is still the most popular card in steam hardware survey says it all really.
There wasn't anywhere near enough RT and DLSS compatible games over the past years to justify all the $$$ the 20xx cards cost. And it remains to be seen just how many games will be doing this stuff over the next however many years as well. But at least now the 30xx cards provide bang for buck to actually get into serious 4k gaming. Now we just need to see those 4k 144hz monitors being mass produced and start becoming affordable
Again, I think there was no other way of establishing DLSS, and ray tracing. As for the obsolescence, well, your card isn't suddenly weaker, it's just that we are seeing something that hasn't happened for a long time in PC Gaming, and it's a new and very exciting technology rapidly becoming more and more commonplace (and yes, don't worry if consoles start supporting RT natively, we will get many games that support it) and Nvidia is able to use their new architecture to make use of this.
And this push in technology is exactly why these new cards power 4K gaming so well (
if these early benchmarks are to be believed!), so I feel you are not connecting the dots here and looking at these aspects as if they were separate, when they are not.
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Mind you, I will agree of course that this is a fairly safe thing for Nvidia to do, as it allows them to raise prices (thus establishing a precedent) and get more money. Though even from that angle, as the new cards likely required a ton of research and actual work from Nvidia, as compared to a normal refresh of an established design and architecture, it proably didn't increase their margins by a lot. The Super cards are then just an attempt to get a better return out of the first RTX cards.
As such, I'm really surprised that they are pricing the 3070 and 3080 so cheaply, when it basically makes their old top-tier GPU obsolete.