Elden Ring is still a stuttery mess on PC and barely hits 60 fps on consoles, even the $700 one, yet it's beloved.

I have an old ass PC and a PS5 with the game on both and they run smooth as shit unless you're using raytracing, which literally doesn't even change the visuals in the game; it just makes it slower.

Stalker 2 is a busted mess. The performance issues have been fixed mostly after 3 patches, but the game itself shits itself once you get to a certain story mission. Literally nothing works beyond that point. The A-Life system does not work, scripted events are all jacked up, IDK if anyone else is getting this but every now and then I have my secondary weapon replaced with a random other weapon that I didn't even have in my inventory, sound effects don't play properly, the hud completely disappears, and so many more things that make me glad I'm only playing through GamePass and didn't actually buy the game. There's a good game under the mess, somewhere. But they should have just bit the bullet and delayed it another month or two instead of releasing what they did for the holidays.

The reason they sold so many copies though, is because pre-ordering. People bought them before they ever saw the game in action. And games like Stalker 2 are the reason why you shouldn't pre-order. Because the chances of getting burned by busted-ass shit like this is increasingly more common. Again, because people pre-order the fuck out of games.