{"id":356890,"date":"2026-03-20T23:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T23:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/356890\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T23:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T23:20:07","slug":"gamers-hate-nvidias-dlss-5-developers-arent-crazy-about-it-either","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/356890\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamers Hate Nvidia’s DLSS 5. Developers Aren\u2019t Crazy About It, Either"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a day of widespread, overwhelming pushback, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang<\/a> doubled down and said gamers are \u201ccompletely wrong<\/a>\u201d about DLSS. (You know how much gamers love being told that they\u2019re wrong.) But developers at Capcom and Ubisoft say they didn’t even know what the tech demo would look like and, according to Insider Gaming<\/a>, found out about it the same time everyone else did and were just as surprised. (Nvidia, Ubisoft, and Capcom did not immediately get back to our request for comment.)<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the reaction from gamers is understandable,\u201d Marwan Mahmoud, a game developer at Incrypt, wrote in an email to WIRED. \u201cSome games started relying too heavily on these technologies instead of focusing on proper optimization. From a developer perspective, it feels a bit different because you see DLSS as a tool that helps rather than a core solution.\u201d<\/p>\n

The problem for many people, developers included, is the one-size-fits-all approach of a technology that can adjust visuals across various game types.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe artist has a style, the artist has an art direction that you’re going to give him, and that’s something that AI kind of doesn’t respect all the time,\u201d says Ra\u00fal Izquierdo, an indie game<\/a> developer in Mexico, \u201cMaybe I don\u2019t want my characters to be yassified.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bates agrees, saying he doesn\u2019t think every game needs to be photo real. And that sentiment is also echoed by game developer Sterling Reames, who has worked at Striking Distance Studios and Zynga. \u201cPeople just want better games,\u201d Reames wrote in a message to WIRED. \u201cThat\u2019s as plainly as I can put it.<\/p>\n

At GTC, Nvidia ran its demo on its most powerful consumer graphics cards, two GeForce RTX 5090s<\/a>. Had Nvidia made its selling point for the tech that it saves resources, thus enabling older hardware to deliver more impressive graphics, there may have been something to that.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat’s the point if you’re not going to do it on weaker hardware?\u201d Izquierdo says. \u201cIf this were done on an [RTX 2080 graphics card], for instance, I think I would be thinking differently about it. OK, this is for the betterment of gamers\u2019 experiences and everything, not just for selling graphic cards.”<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Nvidia\u2019s demo, and GTC writ large, was a flex of the company\u2019s power in the AI space<\/a>. The reaction, Bates posits, is more about humans dealing with not just crossing the uncanny valley, but what happens when we reach the other side.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now it’s pretty clearly a thing they are forced to do to demonstrate their prowess as an AI company,\u201d Bates says. \u201cBut the truth is, this is going to be the default in a few years, and nobody is even going to think twice about it. It’s Jensen’s world, we’re just living in it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a day of widespread, overwhelming pushback, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang doubled down and said gamers are \u201ccompletely…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,15761,213,61,60,233,21620,80,14799],"class_list":{"0":"post-356890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-console-games","12":"tag-gaming","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-nvidia","16":"tag-pc-games","17":"tag-technology","18":"tag-video-games"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}