GPU owners are having the same paranoia that Android owners used to have back when companies only offered 2 annual Android updates. People pretended that this meant their phone became unusable. Meanwhile here I am with my 6 year old Android phone with a 4 year old OS and everything still works perfectly fine.
Again this argument. It's not about games not working, it about present and future purchase decisions. In other words it's not about your particular needs and perception,
it's about the needs and perception of people around you. This will influence sale numbers and ultimately change what is available for you as well.
I'm getting more annoyed by the tone deaf reaction in the forums than AMDs clumsy handling of the situation. AMD is selling newly branded Z2 APUs with RDNA2 IP, they were launched this year. The Z2 Go was released in
January 2025 and the Z2 A was announced in
June 2025, just a few months ago.
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Moving on to your Android analogy, people wanted more guaranteed Android upgrades because they demanded more value for their money, especially as the price for flagship smartphones kept creeping up. A higher security update coverage was also mandatory and expected given how many companies aimed to make mobile phones the go-to device for payments and bank interaction. In the past we had less Android updates because it made financial sense, and then we got more guaranteed updates because the market changed and it made financial sense.
The GPU market is also undergoing drastic change, prices are going up each year and upgrade cycles are slowing down. AMD thought they could ride the wave of change and utilize old IP in newly released hardware to cut costs, but they also wanted to stick to the old support model based on IP age. You can't have it both ways.