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When I first saw Unreal Engine 5 with Nanite, I thought this is it. Well it turns out there were lot of area where Nanite couldn't be used in Unreal 5.0, Luckily after 1.5 year with 5.3 seems to have added most of the missing pieces.

Which makes me wonder what else is cooking in the pipeline.

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In fact we have badly optimized games, that cannot be run 60 fps native resolution even on 4090. With not that better visuals. Yes those visuals are now much cheaper to produce, but in the cost of end users.

Nanite was/is optimized for "next gen consoles" like the PS5 which has now become the current gen consoles. Things like direct NVMe-to-GPU asset loading, bypassing both the CPU and OS, is still early beta tech on PC.

And it's also completely unneeded as you can see when running Forsaken or Ratchet & Clank on PC without it.

Those are not games that fully utilize the PS5's NVMe-to-GPU asset loading tech. Things like actually flying over a giant open world map without merely teleporting.

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