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Why innovate on the hardware side when you can just use AI to add fake frames to make the numbers you advertise look impressive even while the quality of the gr
by autoexec 1y ago
Why innovate on the hardware side when you can just use AI to add fake frames to make the numbers you advertise look impressive even while the quality of the graphics your cards output nosedives? Especially if you're nvidia and making plenty of money selling AI chips to non-gamers. It doesn't help that the video card industry isn't even close to competitive and there's no pressure to really innovate in the first place.
It's fine for video games to employ tricks that limit what they have to make look good on screen. Games like Silent Hill did a pretty good job by filling the world with heavy fog or giving you a flashlight leaving everything outside of a small well-lit circle too dark to see. That actually added to the atmosphere and allowed them to make what little you could see look great (for the time).
Guessing at what players might be looking at and making everything else look like garbage is doomed to fail though. It punishes anyone who dares to look half an inch away from what the designers think you should be paying attention to, is distracting even if you are trying to focus where they want you to, and anyone who wants to take a cool a screenshot of the action gets screwed as well.