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“Gaming is becoming unaffordable” — Xbox CEO says the industry has an accessibility crisis (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] atro_city@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's unaffordable for those who don't sail the high seas and buy a new rig every year. I have one that's probably more than 5 years old by now and the only games I retrieve don't require the latest and greatest. Plus, there are games more than a decade old with good graphics. Things haven't gotten terribly better since. This channel regularly showcases some.

[–] Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Channel looks onteresting and isn’t only on Youtube, so huge thanks!

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 1 points 18 hours ago

You're welcome :) I can recommend getting GrayJay to search across platforms.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Those are some great examples of old games that are real lookers, but quite frankly, I'm on a 5-year-old machine, and there are only a few of the latest games that have made it break a sweat. It runs most of the cutting edge games at high settings, high frame rates, and 1440p.

[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

I was going to say, my PC is only 3 years old but from what I noticed is if you had an above average GPU from the past 6 years then you are absolutely still ok to play a lot of stuff from today just fine. I dont think thats really going to change much for a while either as cards have turned to faking pixels over trying to achieve higher performance gains so progress is a bit slower in that area.