There’s quite a few delays in the path I describe, so there is opportunity there.
For the top tier cards nvidia used the increased efficiency to deliver a huge leap in performance. The 4090 was an incredible step up from the 3090 and 3090ti. The 5090 is mostly the same tech as the 4090, just a little more power hungry and more memory for a pretty modest performance increase. For DCS in VR it offers above average performance improvements compared to the 4090 to be fair but for other games it doesn’t matter that much, even in 4k. For 2D you are absolutely right - a mid range PC is enough - but right now even that is prohibitively expensive simply due to the RAM prices.
and stupid is that i start to see in some devs from dlcs or future sims that thinking that if your pc is not enough, go buy new ram or graphic card because its cheap, they became very very lazy in optimization and textures compressions and start to begging requirements of like +8GB VRAM and high ram for 2d 1080p non-vr use!!!
Heh, my PC is pretty ducking far from dead. In fact, it hardly produces any heat when playing DCS. Now when I run Cyberpunk 2077, it starts heating the room, but for some reason DCS just slides off the GPU.
Two years back I was thinking, why did I get 64GB RAM again…………… but might be able to get by if a stick dies. The Corsair kit has gone from £169 to now £732 at Scan.
Interesting times.
Except for the C-130 with ray tracing on. This one does heat up the room quite a bit in my experience. Other modules are pretty tame, still heats up the room over time but it can’t replace heating.
For the past 3 weeks I am thinking: “Why didn’t I get 64GB of RAM again??”
I wish I’d bought a second set of 96GB RAM, easy 1000€ profit 
Remember that little story I told you guys from Gamescom?
Well here it is in the wild.
Those absolute scumbags.
Since I started this thread I feel an obligation to post a convincing article that says AU CONTRAIRE!
GeForce Now is featured rather prominently in that article, but that or other pixel streaming services are the exact opposite of owning the compute yourself.
How about Death of the Windows PC?
Between Windows 11 enshittification, Europe seeking digital sovereignty, and Valve expanding Linux gaming to other pre-installed devices beyond the Steam Deck (3rd party devices with SteamOS, such as Lenovo Legio Go, VR with the Steam Frame, TV-console-like PC with the Steam Machine (aka GabeCube)), there is enough to be hopeful.
Handhelds have been particularly successful in recent years, and this new development in particular makes me happy.
It could use Valve’s work on x86 emulation on ARM that they’re doing for the Frame to become a PC emulator handheld. The 95 chip should be roughly powerful enough to emulate 8-10 year old PC games at this point.
It could also help advance the mainline-Linux-on-phone movement. So many possibilities.
Also add the fact that dirty trick of ms to enforce win11 only run on modern pcs, not everyone did or could did the jump, and yes its true, i believe that the percentage of last windows pcs vs all other os the golden era of master ms imperium was over since long time.
Not everyone goes to win11 for the mentioned reasons and also more and more linux turned into a good choice and more and more games and softwares support linux.