not true. it wont be worth it anymore to implement Path Tracing or Ray tracing which is absolutely not needed for a prime gaming experience. its deterimental even because ull only get into games with a certain type of person who can afford a big machine.

Many games that come out still, and are quite successful, do not require such technologies.

It also won't be worth it to make games for next gen consoles if the prices end up being what people are saying. So in the end they'll just keep doing what they're doing right now, and not increase the hardware requirements of their games.

The extensive use of AI for producing better code (if so instructed) may even decrease the hardware requirements.

...AI may do is such a tired trope by now.

AI slop-cloning is killing small indie games too.

Is it really? Slop clones of games have been a thing for ages, I’d expext the market to be reasonably resistant by now.

Here's how it's been going:

1. Indy developer releases a game or trailer of a game. 2. Within an extremely short time (days to weeks at most) there are clones on the market. 3. These games often outperform the original.

It's absolutely not something that's gone on for ages.

It might be a novel gameplay idea / twist on a genre, and mere days after launch instead of being able to stand on its own and gather attention it's drowning in a pool of lookalikes. It's no longer distinct.

The speed of being able to slop together something like this is less than 1% of what it used to be.

HN went crazy over 2048, which was a slop clone of Threes, something like 15 years ago.

So yes maybe it happens more often now, but it’s still not new.

> So yes maybe it happens more often now

Yes, that's literally the point of the people you're responding to. Has HN lost reading comprehension, or are you arguing in bad faith?

It used to happen occasionally. Now it happens instantly. That delta is the problem.

Clones are not going to be the problem. The slopalanch will be the problem. Take a look at https://www.reddit.com/r/playmygame/. There's a new game every few minutes and pretty much zero of them are getting any attention. And this is only the beginning.

So it's easier than ever to make a game, but it's more difficult than ever to get anyone to try what you've made. I'd say that's just as bad, and in some ways worse, than having your game cloned.

For someone looking to play a new game it will be difficult to sort through all the bad games to find the good ones. And for anyone pouring their soul into a game they will more likely than not have an audience of one.

Our eventual destination is probably going to be a) pick up a device, b) ask your bot to make up a game on the spot, c) play. It sounds so lonely and depressing.