I’m not taking it personally, I just don’t like when people spread misinformation. If you live in a world where you don’t need to mix max performance don’t make statements that you get flawless performance on ultra settings, because you’re not. I get the patient gamer sentiment, I have a vast catalogue of games that I don’t need to get the latest and greatest of games, I get them only if it’s something I really want to play. For example I will get Monster Hunter wilds because I love monster hunter, but the Indiana Jones game went into my wishlist because that’s something I can wait to go on sale. I support people waiting to buy games.

However what I don’t do is in the year 2027-2028 I tell people that if they buy a 40 series card they’ll be able to play Indiana Jones natively at 60+ FPS with ultra settings. That would effectively be misinformation because unless you’re buying a 4090 (which I doubt would be reasonably priced 3 years from now) that’s just not true.

Like I said before, if you want to say fuck Nvidia that’s fine. If you want to suggest they get AMD cards, that’s fine. But don’t tell them they’ll get something they definitely won’t get, especially with AMD cards.

So you don’t actually know if you need upscalers or not and your argument for getting flawless performance in ultra graphics is based on a game that at that point was almost a decade old and your current experience would be based on almost top of the line current gen AMD card.

If you just wanted to say "fuck Nvidia"and tell people to be patient gamers that’s fair, but the rest of your comment is just bullshit. Cards from a few years ago won’t flawlessly play games from a few years ago on ultra settings (because games from a few years ago will already have raytracing), unless they’re top of the line Nvidia cards and even then you might still need to resort to DLSS because 4k raytracing is so taxing. AMD cards are great bang for the buck, especially if you don’t care about raytracing, but in terms of raw performance, especially with raytracing, Nvidia cards are superior.

As for upscalers, developers have been using it as a crutch for the past 5 years. Getting good FPS natively usually means just playing on lower resolution which defeats the purpose of running native resolution. And on higher resolutions, unless you have a high end card, you have to choose between good FPS or upscaling.

Can you give an actual example because it makes no sense to me if you buy (for example) 2 gens old cards to play games that released 2 gens ago and you somehow get flawless performance with the highest settings? Just doesn’t make sense unless you’re omitting some key information like overclocking or not actually using raytracing etc.

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2016 we got Blood and Wine for Witcher 3 and Fallout 4 (which is a good game, just not a good Fallout game). Oh and we got Doom.

2017 wasn’t that great for AAA, except for Nintendo. But we still got great games like Breath of the wild, Prey, Nier Automata, Hellblade, Hollow Knight, Undertale to name a few.

2018 we got Red Dead Redemption 2, Monster Hunter World, God of War.

2019 we got Death Stranding, Divinity Original Sin 2, Sekiro, Resident Evil 2

2020 we got Final Fantasy 7 Remake, The last of us 2, Hades

2021 is kind of a dud because of covid.

So I’m terms of AAA only 2017 and 2021 can really be considered duds. But indies released some absolute bangers between 2016-2021. For example Disco Elysium, among us, outer wilds, Stardew valley, inscryption etc.

You could argue that Shadow of the erd tree puts elden ring in 2024 because it had so much content.

In short, Steam Deck was made so that the people at Valve would want to use the Deck. Meanwhile most of the competition is operating on “bigger numbers mean better product”.