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human
ELIF: When a video game is in development for 4-5 years (like the Elder Scrolls series), how do they keep up with technological growth?

I read that Bethesda has been working on Fallout 4 since before Fallout: New Vegas was released.
gpt
1. You anticipate developments and design a game for hardware that doesn't yet exist. A big developer will also get engineering samples prior to their sale to the general public.

2. You don't release for hardware that is brand new, but release for hardware that is a couple years old.

So in the early stages of development your game is targeted at graphics cards that won't come out for another two or three years, but in the later stages of development your minimum hardware requirements are the current state of the art/most expensive hardware, and by the time you actually release your minimum requirements are now common hardware.