I'd say it's already all but at an end. The Witcher 3 is probably the most intensive game I currently own. On my CPU (i7-4790k, 4 core/8 thread) standing stil

I'd say it's already all but at an end. The Witcher 3 is probably the most intensive game I currently own. On my CPU (i7-4790k, 4 core/8 thread) standing still in a crowded city environment shows about 50% load across all 8 HT cores. Once you start running through the city use across all cores rises to a steady 60-70% with regular (every 2-3 seconds) spikes to 90+% on all cores. That's a two year old game. I have a feeling that when the next big wave of major AAA titles starts to hit, many of them will be severely limited by 4 core/4thread.