How FUTURE PROOF does your Gaming PC need to be?

Is Future Proofing your PC a thing of a past? NO, but it's getting A LOT easier, at least for GAMERS.
As a recent convert to PC gaming and the custom PC building community... I'm intrigued by the history of the whole ecosystem. This video looks at the upward trend of Minimum System Requirements over the last 23 years.
**DISCLAIMER** : This is a very small dataset that I've compiled, so don't read TOO much into it.

We know there's myriad factors that contribute to PC Game Developers decisions and I DO NOT know them all, but I speculate on some of them here. As always I'm no expert so take everything I'm saying with a grain of salt.

This IS NOT some huge revelation... I just wanted to share this trend I noticed with others.

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[sabbathian]

Problem is with lack of time and also lack of effort put in by developers in order to optimize the games. This is especially true with big game studios that are just looking after money and not creativity and optimization.
I tried Remnant II few days ago on my 3090, and it is impossible to get decent FPS without DLSS... sure, game looks nice, but it is nothing spectacular. On the other hand, I am playing Warhammer 40000 Boltgun on my Phenom 925 system with GTX 760 at a stable 85fps...

[Sams]

spent close to 9K on a gaming rig .. 13900KS, 4090 Founders Edition, 128GB DDR5 5600MT, 1600W BeQuiet Dark13, ASUS ROG Maximus Hero Z790, Soundblaster AE9, Gen 5 M.2 Crucial 1TB x 1(running at Gen 5 speed). 3x2TB Samsung 990's, Samsung OLED G8, 2 other lower end monitors, and much more... And yet Diablo 4 crashes my computer almost always with in 5-10 min of play! Mind you, I can pass the 3DMark stress test at 98% and OCCT Stabiltiy .. but Diablo 4? ...

[DBDRFzero]

2 Words: Console Gaming. People forget that the PS5 and Xbox Series has 10+ VRAM, I had to upgrade my RX 580 because I know that 12 GB VRAM will be the new minimum.

[antemasq]

You can explain the upswing by Ocamz razor, there is a simple trend going on: these new games are just older games/engines reskined and made to run on newer potatos like the switch/phones

[edmundbenz]

Maybe we'll just wait for the quantum computers.

[hardcorehunter]

poor optimization on the PC killed future proofing. Also if you have to replace a gpu every 3 years which can be like half the price of your PC just to play something that can be played fine on console; there is a problem.

[bismarckrathod]

I'm not going to buy anything until 2025. I know it's hard to keep up now