boldest predictions for PC gaming in 2024

We're pondering our orbs again.

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In 2023, the most talked-about game of the year was a CRPG with turn-based combat
What game are they referring to? I like turn-based games, and would always love to find another good one.
- I think baldur's gate 3

Fingers crossed for some ARM devices running PC games through user-space shenanigans. Basically emulating the stuff Proton doesn't handle - or hand off to the GPU. They won't play the newest games any time soon, but a $60 gizmo might run Hades for two hours.
- Box86 has been in the works for this. They emulate x86 instructions for the program itself, but use native ARM versions of major Linux libraries like the C standard library, SDL, OpenGL, etc. That way a lot of overhead is eliminated, especially for programs that aren't CPU intensive
  
  Box86, FEX-Emu, and qemu-user are vying for that user-space emulation... space. It's gonna be fascinating watching the winner shake out.
  Though for gaming, all of them seem to share Dolphin/ARM's primary obstacle, which is that SOC drivers blow.

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