The beautiful thing about steam, is you can always buy the game and try it out, if it doesn't work on your system return it within 2 hours. Steam as the benevolent dictator has made try before you buy the default, which is good for people who've got older systems
this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2023
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I don't really understand why this is such a big thing.
The minimum requirements:
CPU: Intel i5-7600K or AMD equivalent - 6-year-old processor that wasn't top of the line at the time.
GPU: GeForce RTX 2060 or Radeon RX 6600, 6GB VRAM - 5-year-old GPU
RAM: 16GB - That's been standard for a couple of years
Storage: 90GB SSD - Most AAA games are over 100GB now
This isn't nothing, but needing to have a computer worth $800+ (CAD) to play a new AAA has been the way things have been for more than a decade. A common trick is to buy an OptiPlex computer from NewEgg for under $400.00, and add a graphics card (you need to look up what the power supply can handle, so this can be a bit of research). Some of them even come with Windows at that price, if you haven't made the switch to Linux yet.
The Radeon RX 6600 is not even 3 years old, not to mention it was impossible to get any GPUs during that time so it might as well be only 2 years old.
And yeah the 2060 will be 5 years old in January but if we look at something like Steam's hardware survey, it took until this month for the 3060 to become the "top dog" on the steam survey. Which is still only 6% of people, prior to that it was the GTX 1650.
Oh also, the GTX 1650 launched at $149.
The 3060 launched at $329
So essentially in 4 years the cost of a base GPU more than doubled.
Do they really mean anything, I mean, at all?
The only propose I can think of, for the "system requirement" is for those who need to play the game straight away in the very first hours it is released.... Everyone else?
Just go on youtube and search for: "Alan Wake 2" and [place your GPU model or similar].
I suppose the PC are built following certain logic, if your rig is a RTX 4090Ti... I doubt you got just 8GB of ram, right?
I know that feeling. I made a simple game with Godot and my dad's old computer can't run it.
We just reach the end of PC gaming. Many future games are now need hardware that only the 1% of population can affront. Hyper realism of huge graphic effects sure are fun and immersive but not more accessible, not more something you can play alone at desk with a PC. This probably will lead the consoles as well to rise their price, we gonna see PS5 or PS6 at 1.499$ in next future. No one will buy and play games, so companies will stop to existing, it was a good run.