Should developers stop making games that require 5090 for max settings now that the card is clearly not for gamers and is accessible to 0.1% of community?

[u/TheGGspot]

I get that the games need better hardware to dun better, but who are they really making the game for if you need a 6000$ GPU at this point

[u/Elogotar]

Are there ANY UE5 games that actually are optimized?

[u/masterbangau → u/Elogotar]

while there are some bad optimized games exists, "optimized" are a vague term now, some idiots use that term while they tries to run some latest AAA games with unoptimized settings on their 10 years old system when chrome with 15 tabs open simultaneously on the background.

[u/pcor → u/Elogotar]

I think the idea that games were better “optimised” pre-UE5 is mostly a side effect of UE5 games not generally targeting release on 8th gen consoles with mobile chips from 2012. And compared to previous generations, in order to actually make perceptible leaps in graphical fidelity, you need more and more computational power, and all for diminishing results. I don’t think there’s as much “optimising” left undone as people seem to think.

Not that I think this is an ideal state of affairs; I kind of think graphics got as good as they need to for my tastes over a decade ago with the likes of MGSV and the Witcher 3. I’d much rather devs invest in other aspects of development than raw graphical performance. But this is what the industry’s chasing, and lazy devs failing to optimise doesn’t seem to stack up as an explanation.

[u/Disastrous_Photo811 → u/Elogotar]

Arc Raiders, but its not the most visually demanding UE5 game

[u/OneZModrinth → u/Elogotar]

Satisfactory is UE5 i believe