DVD Talk Forum - Ultra HD and console Gaming

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Originally Posted by K&AJones (Post 12379326)

One reason why I stopped PC Gaming was exactly for this reason...video card and chips were being upgraded faster than the games themselves. It was like someone buying a new car only wanting to buy another new car 6 months later...and prices kept going up, up, up...."The Pixel Craze" was getting out-of-hand...and out-of-wallet. but if people have the $$$$ then more power to them.

Just because manufacturers release new graphics cards and cpu's yearly, doesn't mean you have to upgrade. I'm still using an i5-2500K that I purchased back in... 2011? My GPU was a 7970 that I also had for many years, until I recently replaced it with a R9 290X. I didn't even really need to replace it, since I could still run most games at High/Max settings, but I did so because it was basically no cost to me.

It only gets out of hand if you let it get out of hand. There's no need to upgrade yearly, or even biyearly.