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Chrkeller on 11 January 2026
Zkuq said:
Kyuu said:

Mid-sized and emerging companies can seize the opportunity and fill the gaps left by nVidia and AMD. But it would be awkward as hell if PS7 ditches backwards compatibility with 3 generations when PS6 is fully backwards compatible with PS5 and PS4 lol. That's a massive ass library to casually delete in this day and age. A non-nVidia "Switch 3" would also drop BC with two major consoles.

Ideally, Sony should've remained a GPU/CPU designer after the PS2. But PS3's failure scared them out of the business. Now they, like Nintendo, are at the mercy of chip makers' and designers' whims.

x86 and graphics programming APIs probably aren't going anywhere and even if they are, emulation exists if there's enough interest in it. It's not like backwards compatibility has always been enabled by hardware.

Soundwave said:

Anyone who could create any kind of GPU architecture that can even remotely compete with Nvidia isn't going to focus on gaming, lol. They'll go straight to AI too and watch their stock price skyrocket. Investors don't give a shit about gaming, it's a small potatoes business.

It's like saying someone who has the ability and talent to play in the NBA will just rather play for your local men's league instead, they'd be pretty stupid to do that with that skill set. Now maybe in the 1950s or something before big ticket contracts were a thing for pro athletes, that might have been even plausible but today that would just be stupid. 

AI has forever changed the GPU game, might as well accept it. 

There could still be room for something that's poor at AI but good enough at graphics at a price that's not driven up by AI needs. I wouldn't bet on it happening, but it certainly could. It's definitely a profitable market if you can find a way to enter it, so if the AI-capable companies neglect gaming too badly, someone will fill in the void sooner or (probably) later.

Exactly.  A company that can't compete with AI but can offer a good gpu will fill the gap.  The gaming GPU market is a billion dollar industry, people like money, someone will step up.  Likely out of China.  Or heck, intel integrated graphics are getting quite strong, it could head in that direction.  I read an article, I think the panther lake, it has an iGPU close to a 4050.  

The doomsday people need to get some fresh air.  Sure things change, but gaming isn't going anywhere.  

  



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Qwark on 12 January 2026
Chrkeller said:
Zkuq said:

x86 and graphics programming APIs probably aren't going anywhere and even if they are, emulation exists if there's enough interest in it. It's not like backwards compatibility has always been enabled by hardware.

Soundwave said:

Anyone who could create any kind of GPU architecture that can even remotely compete with Nvidia isn't going to focus on gaming, lol. They'll go straight to AI too and watch their stock price skyrocket. Investors don't give a shit about gaming, it's a small potatoes business.

It's like saying someone who has the ability and talent to play in the NBA will just rather play for your local men's league instead, they'd be pretty stupid to do that with that skill set. Now maybe in the 1950s or something before big ticket contracts were a thing for pro athletes, that might have been even plausible but today that would just be stupid. 

AI has forever changed the GPU game, might as well accept it. 

There could still be room for something that's poor at AI but good enough at graphics at a price that's not driven up by AI needs. I wouldn't bet on it happening, but it certainly could. It's definitely a profitable market if you can find a way to enter it, so if the AI-capable companies neglect gaming too badly, someone will fill in the void sooner or (probably) later.

Exactly.  A company that can't compete with AI but can offer a good gpu will fill the gap.  The gaming GPU market is a billion dollar industry, people like money, someone will step up.  Likely out of China.  Or heck, intel integrated graphics are getting quite strong, it could head in that direction.  I read an article, I think the panther lake, it has an iGPU close to a 4050.  

The doomsday people need to get some fresh air.  Sure things change, but gaming isn't going anywhere.  

  

Agreed the worst that will happen is that progress on GPU for the next ten years will slow down quite a bit. However I think developers can use a few minutes to breath, games are already very expensive to make.



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Random_Matt on 13 January 2026

Nah, they are going to do this instead; lol. 8GB cards are so, so desirable.
https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-reportedly-shifts-rtx-50-supply-toward-rtx-5060-and-5060-ti-8gb-in-2026



Chrkeller on 14 January 2026
Random_Matt said:

Nah, they are going to do this instead; lol. 8GB cards are so, so desirable.
https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-reportedly-shifts-rtx-50-supply-toward-rtx-5060-and-5060-ti-8gb-in-2026

Nvidia clearly wants to sell cheap and underpowered cards, and leverage AI for fidelity.  I am on the fence.  First pass is a giant no.  Second pass, DLSS 4.5 is impressive.  So, I guess hold onto my 4090 and see how it plays out over the next 10 years.  



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rapsuperstar31 on 14 January 2026

Everyone sell your NVidia stock, show them we want them investing in gaming as well and not just AI.



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Soundwave on 14 January 2026
Random_Matt said:

Nah, they are going to do this instead; lol. 8GB cards are so, so desirable.
https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-reportedly-shifts-rtx-50-supply-toward-rtx-5060-and-5060-ti-8gb-in-2026

Hard to blame them. Why waste silicon and RAM and production capacity of valuable nodes on gaming GPUs when you can make more money off AI spend. 

Sucks maybe for enthusiast gamers, but they don't really matter in the scope of the global economy, which right now is being propped up by all of this massive AI spending. Just going to be a new reality people have to get used to, that said, I mean complaining that the graphics tech available today isn't good enough as is is pretty much the epitome of first world problems. 

The games of today look more than fine, even if they stay frozen at this level for the next 10 years, I don't think it's that big of a deal. 

If you can't express a game idea or make something look eye-pleasing for virtually any kind of game scenario given the tech we have now, as a developer you're probably a lost cause anyway. It can take hundreds of millions of dollars of budget and 7+ years of development in many cases to really push the technology we have now, I don't think any developer is dying to double or triple those figures any time soon. 

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Chrkeller on 14 January 2026
rapsuperstar31 said:

Everyone sell your NVidia stock, show them we want them investing in gaming as well and not just AI.

Comparative to investors, I doubt if every single gamer sold their stock, there would even be the slightest impact.  And investors are not going to sell their stock, when the future is likely AI.  

Gaming will likely be very AI heavy, with weaker GPUs producing a high-quality image.  I think upper end 4000 and 5000 series GPUs will be worth their weight in gold.  Hopefully I am wrong, but I think the 6000 series (and onwards) will be a sad state of affairs for actual rendering capability.

I think, happy to be corrected, both AMD and Intel have announced they are out of the high-end graphics game.  Nvidia has all but confirmed the same.

Graphics are likely going to stagnant, I think Soundwave is correct.          

Last edited by Chrkeller - on 14 January 2026

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