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Cyberpunk is the clearest inflection point in the diminishing returns cycle. It still looks great, runs better today than it did when it came out, and there’s nothing that’s come out since that looks like anything but a very minor incremental improvement. If you have a machine that can play Cyberpunk, you can play pretty much anything worth playing today, and Cyberpunk has been out for over 5 years now.
AAA gaming is cooked, not because hardware is getting too expensive, but because expensive hardware is becoming irrelevant. If developers can make good games for low-end PCs, and gamers are happy to buy those games, then there’s no problem here. The minimum hardware technology required for gaming may have become commodified.