The GT300/Fermi Thread

[Stevethegreat]

What's worse is how wrong it is the "but Graphics is not everything" crowd. Historically Graphics IS almost everything not -so much- by making games shinier but mostly for allowing newer possibilities, new styles of gameplay, storytelling. Whole genres were born because of innovation in graphics, FPS, modern RPGs, Strategies, Realistic Rally games and so on and so forth.

There is no telling how much more could be invented if there was initiative for game devs to utilize the sheer power that we now are *only* sitting on. Few years of console domination and the stagnation in innovation is unparalleled, in no other era gaming did have so many sequels, it almost became like holywood, well -no- the whole scene is even duller.

I'm not a big gamer anymore due to real life reasons, but I would love to see game devs for once trying to be innovative by using new technologies and eventually becoming good users of it but I don't see it coming anytime soon. Game developing increasingly becomes the Luddite of an industry that it once led.

It is sad how gaming applications and the hardware created to support it were in fact pouring in so many other fields, from cinema to medical imagery. The stagnation in the 21st century's genre which was not meant to be is not only sad but actually stops innovation which we are not able even to imagine from realizing (who had thought of 3D GPS, 30 years ago, or body rendering, life like effects in movies and many others - in all those fields we would comparably, still, be in the stone age). Not to speak about new genres of gaming-entertainment-culture which would "shyly" emerge by now. But that's not happening and instead we're about to get the 7th Call of Duty in a short while.

The future is shaped by software not hardware, hardware is a necessary ingredient but far from sufficient. Kudos to ATI and nVidia for continuing creating wonderful hardware, shame to gaming industry who are not using the -aforementioned- hardware, thus burying the future...