Yeah, I remember compressing 4k120hz video of my AI upscaled ray traced RPG play through in real time and streaming it to all my friends' phones in the 90s. Times never change.
But really, it's easy to forget the massive leaps we make every year.
Maybe I'm just getting old, but diablo 4 doesn't look that much better to my eyes than diablo 3 did. I'm sure the textures are higher resolution and so on, but 5 minutes in I don't notice or care. Its how the game plays that matters, and that has almost never been hardware limited.
That said, I'm really looking forward to the day we can embed LLMs and generative AI into video games for like world generation & dialog. I can't wait to play games where on startup, the game generates truly unique cities for me to explore filled with fictional characters. I want to wander around unique worlds and talk - using natural language - with the people who populate them.
I'm giddy with excitement over the amazing things video games can bring in the next few years. I feel like a kid again looking forward to christmas.
there was a video posted to hacker news about core windows apps taking longer to launch on new enough hardware. Stuff like calc, word, paint taking longer to start on win11 vs win 2000 even though machines have much faster everything so I think the point stands - why is everything slower now?
But really, it's easy to forget the massive leaps we make every year.