We have too many people who's mommies and daddies are forking out the money and all the kid has to do is say, "I want."
I mean, if you have a remotely decent job, you can afford a new GPU every year. It's not a large expense. People's Cellphone Bills, TV bills, etc. are FAR more than a new GPU every year.
I don't pay Cable bills anymore, my cellphone bill is nonexistant due to cheap alternatives, that easily makes up a GPU purchase every year.
These games are poorly optimized, look like crap, and we're barely seeing an improvement in graphical fidelity. In fact, we're seeing regressions in performance to image quality ratio a lot of the time.
And people are OK with this. Throw in one cool lighting feature over a game with horrible textures and people are excited that a a feature is branded, rather than the fact the game looks bad, and takes a ton of GPU horsepower to run.
And no, I see a lot of people with GTX 970s and 960s on here.
And they're dropping settings to play at 1080p on a 970 for these new age games. While before, these were definitely enough for games that looked better than these new games.
I'm not blaming Nvidia either. Because it's not like they're forcing people to buy these games. The market is willing to keep picking up these turd titles over and over again. We're just getting what we ask for. PC gamers are speaking out with our wallets and saying that graphical fidelity isn't something we really care about. We just want the game. The people who want the nice graphics will pay $1k+ for it. So that's what's going to happen until someone starts making well optimized good looking games in the market and starts making a profit doing it.