> but AAA game studios aren't going to be able to afford to spend hours lovingly drawing intricate details if only 0.1% of players can play their games in 4k be

> but AAA game studios aren't going to be able to afford to spend hours lovingly drawing intricate details if only 0.1% of players can play their games in 4k because it costs $1600 for just the graphics card. That's not really how it works. The faster cards allow people to play at higher resolutions and higher framerates with full resolution textures, wider field of views, more detail rendered off in the distance, higher resolution shadows, and so on.