Now that Nvidia's 3000-series cards are about to drop, 8K gaming is fast becoming a viable possibility. I am not talking about
Cyberpunk—where it will probably still be unrealistic, and not too beneficial anyway—I am talking about strategy and tactics titles, where it will be very feasible and extremely beneficial. Scroll up the thread and see Linus playing
Cities: Skylines and
Anno 1800 at 8K on 65 and 70 inches respectively. They're the highlights of his videos, and though last year all this was both insanely expensive to acquire and very complicated to set up, this year it should be getting far more accessible.
As for the latest prices, here's what a quick search on Amazon Germany gave me:
https://www.amazon.de/Samsung-Q950R-Fer ... 07Q75KPG7/€4,900 for 75 inches of Samsung 8K goodness. Still a lot, but not entirely out of the realm of possibility.
As for the technical difficulties in setup that Linus struggled with, here's the issue:
https://www.pcmag.com/news/what-can-you-watch-in-8kWill Greenwald wrote:Even if your PC can play games at 8K, you're going to have an issue hooking your PC up to any display that can handle 8K. No graphics cards currently support HDMI 2.1, which is required for 8K, so you can't just use a single cable to connect your PC to an 8K TV. Instead you need to use DisplayPort, and the DisplayPort 1.4 in current graphics cards is limited in the kind of 8K it can transmit (both in frame rate and bit depth). Like HDMI 2.1 devices, DisplayPort 2.0 cards with 8K support should start to come out next year.
Nvidia's 3000-series cards will definitely solve this problem, so you shouldn't have to go through Linus's struggles to get 8K working, if you do end up dropping five grand on a TV. That said, it IS possible to get older cards working, so if you have something like a 2080, you should still be fine if you put in the technical effort required.
I think PA at 8K on 70 inches right in front of your face will be like being there. I have talked somewhere about how incredible the game looks in first-person, and I will talk about it in depth in further installments on my VGART essay of the game: it looks like the craziest sci-fi movie you've ever seen, and a world away from tiny icons floating above a tiny sphere that is the normal game on normal displays. With a massive 8K screen you should be able to zoom in below icon level, so that you're seeing the actual units as opposed to just their icons, while still retaining enough of the battlefield in view to properly run strategy and tactics. It should be unreal, and that's why I will be keeping tabs on the world of 8K gaming and reporting every development, until things are cheap enough for me to jump in. I hope to be able to do so in early 2021, but we'll see.
If anyone reading this is loaded, I advise you to jump in asap, and then let us know about it. Trust me, you won't regret it! There's basically no info on 8K gaming on the internet, and that's a great sadness. We need pics and reports from the front lines, and we need them asap! Think also of the productivity gains from all those pixels! Just think of it and jump in!