Next Gen has arrived, PC gamer also need an upgrade. Xbox Series X specs will be the minimum requirement for next 7 years

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goopy20 said:

Barkley said:

Raytracing won't be mandatory for a long time, you will be able to turn it off for years to come.

Over 50% of hardware surveyed in November by Steam had a GPU at or below the GTX 1050 TI in power. The majority of PC Gamers do not play on high settings.

Ray tracing will be mandatory when all multiplatform games will be designed with consoles in mind that support it. And yes, you can turn it off. Hell, I bet they can get any ps5 game to run on a iphone if they really wanted to. However, it will be a seriously limited and watered down experience. All the OP is saying is that the minimum requirements will go up big time next year. Meaning, most pc gamers will need to upgrade if they want to play next gen games in the way that the developers intended the games to be experienced on consoles. 

That being said. The RTX 3xxx gpu's will probably be out before these next gen consoles launch. 

Except that's not how it works. It's always the lowest common denominator who decides. And if not enough PC hardware is fir for Raytracing, it won't be mandatory as it would cost way too much potential customers if they tried to force it.

Besides, we don't know yet which Raytracing system will be used and what for. Without knowing these, your statement is null from the get-go.