Here is what could be a gaming hot-take.
Ray-tracing has been to gaming what AI is to software.
That is, something shoved down everybody's throat, that has been pushed into every game purely as a result of hype, that never solved any actual problems in the first place, and which consequences have been nothing but negative on the gaming landscape.
For the last ten fucking years, we've been making every game progressively worse performance wise and making them more reliant on this awful technology, just because Nvidia realized that the GTX 1080Ti was just too fucking good of a product in a category that was getting close to reaching a plateau, and so they sold us the solution to their own problem.
The result is that ever since then, they themselves have been trying to make anything capable of running games using it with close to little success, producing GPUs that are both massive in both size and price, but depend on even worse pieces of technology like upscaling, all in an effort to turn what was a terrible idea 10 years ago into something that is somehow viable.
They generated a ridiculous amount of hype, sold it to the entire gaming industry as "the next big thing" and all we got are games that look no better than they did ten years ago but have the audacity to run like shit while being blurry and full of upscaling artefacts on high end hardware to the point where we're now even depending on made-up frames to try and make that problem worse.
Not only did we not gain anything substantial, we've actively and very noticeably regressed! Every AAA release on PC runs like total garbage on whatever you throw at it now. We went from considering 60 fps to be the absolute bare minimum to seeing 30 fps as being a good starter point, as well as from disabling motion blur being the first thing PC players do, to now having to put up with smear made up frames as a way to compensate for the fact that the solution to all of gaming's performance problem is now to just "throw more hardware at it" and hope for the best.
And all of that for what? Nothing! Nvidia is now running off, chasing AI as the next big thing, after having made the entire gaming landscape worse. Probably to try and do it again, too.
I cannot even begin to stress how much I fucking hate ray-tracing (again, in video games specifically!) and it never in a million years would've come up as a technology video games relied on if matters of capitalistic fuckery about infinite growth or whatever were involved.
#raytracing #rtx #nvidia #gpu #graphicscard #gaming #pcgaming #hottake
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