Is Gaming ‘Cooked’ | AI and Gaming | Culture Chat

Live: AI is pulling the hardware, the games and the money away from gamers, so let’s break down whether gaming is cooked and where it’s headed.

AMD’s CEO called it a “data center first company.” Gaming went from about half of NVIDIA’s business to about 7%, and a 32GB kit of DDR5 went from under $100 to around $450. Now AI tools are helping people decompile and port games in a fraction of the time. Publishers are answering with heavier DRM, and maybe even streaming, where the game never lives on your machine. I’m going through all of it, plus the “but China” argument behind all this AI spending.
– They moved on from gamers: GPUs, RAM and console prices
– AI and game decompiling: the Ocarina of Time remake, Call of Duty in a browser and the new Claude Code rule
– Denuvo getting broken, and the reported 14-day online checks
– Could your games move to the cloud, and what you’d lose if they do
– Where I stand on piracy
– “But China”: the AI spending race, and where China actually is with AI

Drop your take in the chat while we go through it.

They Moved On From Gamers: https://youtu.be/ajbVlOzgJ1U
AI and the Midterms: https://youtu.be/UTuNFv9BC2Y

Rippaverse: https://rippaverse.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=gaming-cooked-live

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