So many great games... and then purchased by EA and driven into the ground to be stepped and pissed on before used to wipe their execs *****.
Much like that Medical insurance CEO... someone deserves some high speed gene pool cleansing. Not that it would help... but it would be a feel good...
Same people that buy 2000 dollar cell phones or 1500 dollar cell phones when they drop... then everyone other **** person. For Affirm you can have this for just 37 dollars a month and it will come with name your subscription service included.
I mean I don't consider this a surprise or anything. CP2077 is a setting not a fixed story. I've had plenty of stories in that setting. Remember folks it's a computer game set in an pen and paper TTRPG setting.
We have several factors pushing us into a SOC based commoditized compute market for home use.
1. Connection speeds are getting to a point where for home consumer use there is no need to buy anything better than say 1 gig and that is pushing it.
2. Fab time to make anything is more expensive...
Many folks and honestly, Datacenter operations. When you consider spark stations are around 7k, and 4k plus 1500 in parts can build a faster workstation for AI processing...
Honestly, it's about money, and anything between tech and money is the enemy. And oddly enough in many cases... that is the consumer.
Kids today are going to grow up playing games that exploit everything about them and how they think and feel. All with the goal of extracting more money...
A bit but really that IS what I am betting this is going to turn out to be. A way to use your GPU for undocumented purposes. And personally I lean towards running a node in a multinode AI.
Trick is it has to be low impact/utilization... or folks will see it. (In temps and power draw if...