Target Audience for My First Game

I previously gave information about the game I was working on in this post ( https://www.patreon.com/posts/1-1-scale-open-104162095 ) .

But while working on it I noticed something. There is no game that uses the full potential of high-end computers.

I like to play a game where I drive and chill in a big open world and I want to have the best graphics as much as I can get. But I can't find a game like this.

Sure I can do that in ETS2/ATS and I can literally play at 8k resolution (4k + 400% resolution scaling) @120fps with max settings on RTX 4090 but it looks so bad. 4k @60fps is enough for me but give me the best graphics I can get.

Most of the time game companies do not target high-end computers but they like to target most of the players. As result these games have lower quality and fidelity graphics for high-end computer potential.

So I want to switch target audience for my first game to high-end computers. I want to use Unreal Engine 5 with Lumen (new global illumination tech. with lower cost, helps a lot to improve the lighting realism) and Nanite (rendering highly detailed objects with lower cost, helps a lot to improve realism and fidelity).

This is going to reduce the development time a lot. Also finally I can play a game I like with full potential of my hardware :( I hate looking at environment in ETS2/ATS.

First I want to publish the game for high-end computers, then I want to make lighter version later and publish for low-mid range computers.

It is an open world driving game with different vehicles. Simply, chill & drive. And there will be some missions like in ETS2/ATS or Bus Simulators etc.

I am going to focus on realism and a good dynamic weather system with a lot of interaction with the environment so you can feel like driving in real conditions. But it will be only for high-end computers.

Edit:

Also I am thinking about removing the sun from the game :D What I mean is weather always will be moody, rainy, snowy etc. Because using sunlight has a lot of disadvantages. Like:

- Negative affect on performance, +1 lighting calculation and shadow calculations (big)

- Nothing is moving, not dynamic enough

- Environment looks same almost all the time (conditions are always same)

- Its impossible to make a good looking environment with sunlight same as without sunlight because foliage is not detailed enough

Sure sunlight also helps to feel different vibes but if we are trying to Min/Max everything to get best possible result I feel like avoiding sunlight is a good choice in this case.

Edit 2:

I think I will focus on snowy environment for first release and it will be all snowy environment. I will try to make it realistic and dynamic as much as I can. Its not hard to guess why when you read my name :D