2020 may not be Annus Horribilis for gamers, after all. Even if the basement hiding phase has ended by now.
A brief run-down of PC arrivals:
GeForce 3000 series GFX cards got soft launched today.
Next gen Radeon arriving soon after.
Then the Ryzen 4000 series actual desktop processors.
Followed by Intel Xe graphics, with their 11th gen desktop processors.
On the console side - PS5 and next gen Xbox.
And some big name games - Crusader Kings 3 already came yesterday, AoE4 later in the year.
After 7-8 years of incremental changes, it's fun to see the new console generation drag the PC master race (lol) to a new normal.
The same cycle happens every 7-8 years when new game consoles arrive and set a higher base line. Game developers promptly write code that demands even more CPU cycles, and packs ever higher textures, to run at whatever resolution/quality is deemed normal for the time.
Quad cores, old APUs, older graphics cards - die in flames, I guess. Or at least cook more omelettes than they ever had.
The point as of 2020sep is... Indian gamers who sunk lots of money on high end components in the last 3 months - woe is you, and sucker punched are your guts.
Your PC will not give you very much more in AAA games from here on out, it's not going to "rule" the next 4 years. I did tell you this was coming. In a year's time, you'll see the full effects of this console cycle.
Next up for a solid punch - low end 4K monitor buyers.
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