And even then they massively fucked up by ignoring all the ddosing for years. It gave us Northstar but it’s a paid fucking game, come on man.

Probably with a different AI that’s trained to spot that. Realistically, they won’t.

Cities XS

PC builders aren’t interested in prebuilts. If this provides 90% of the experience of a prebuilt at 50% of the price, it makes sense. We don’t know the actual percentages yet but you get the idea hopefully.

My point was that many prebuilts are so shit, that it’s easy to make a comparatively good product. I mean ffs some of them don’t even run their CPUs and RAM at advertised speeds.

Laptops are a completely different breed that this thing isn’t gonna compete with, not at 800 bucks, not at 200.

Prebuilt PC market is fucked, it could be 800 and sell like crazy, if the experience is good

Also some of those old steam machines were comically expensive, in part because all the different vendors wanted a cut, in part because some of them made new cases

edit: found a spec sheet for the cheapest version of Bolt II, for almost $1800 you got a gtx 760 and i5 4590, 16 gigs of ddr3, 120gb ssd + 1tb hdd. All of it air cooled. I don’t remember new hardware prices back then but it seems steep. And it’s far from the most expensive one.

edit2: on the other end of the spectrum, for $400 (without an OS) you could get ibuypower’s SBX with an athlon x4 840, 4 gigs of ram and an r5 250X

Steam deck has customization you can buy with their points, I could see them getting some extra game sales that way

I was talking about reddit. Lemmy, at least the instances i was on, needs manual approval

And of insanely easy account creation. You didn’t even need an email.

it’s not simple because of the hardware/architecture and OS being different.

This generation of consoles is the closest ever to PC in terms of hardware. Same with OS support. It’s a lot of work to get games past Sony’s reviews and stuff, and you gotta do it with every update, I think that’s why most smaller devs don’t bother. On top of having to support a big and inexperienced audience.

They also advertised some stuff wrong. Like their AA solution only having 2 static images as a comparison.

90% of players don’t even know which graphic option does what. source: pulled it out of my ass

The curse of Lumen is also in it’s default settings, apparently. It has tons of noise and delay in every indie game I’ve tried

Dynamic lighting already exists. Look at Phasmophobia, it’s probably one of the heaviest Unity games because it uses it everywhere. Basically every light in that game is able to cast shadows, and it’s got a lot of lights. Doesn’t have any of the RT noise or lag too.

edit: it doesn’t come cheap though, they had to do some downgrades to port it to consoles. Interior candles for example, they’re no longer interactive.

SR3 was awesome if you weren’t already a saints row fan, otherwise it was a sidegrade, sometimes even a straight downgrade. The world itself is a bit flat in comparison, there’s no dynamic time of day, npc interactions are worse, and the map design isn’t as interesting. Character customization took a hit too. If only SR2 got a proper PC update from it’s now-found source code…

They could record their own farts and Gamers will gladly eat it up. GTA 6 is too big to fail.

Yeah, that one. If you look through his posts he will occasionally show good takes. Not necessarily for the best reasons, but still. More than 0

Same, picked it up on a whim a few months before the shutdown, couldn’t put it down. They got the tone perfectly, and the map is really good, and their progression system actually requires you to play the game. It felt magical, like a NFS World sequel of my dreams, the only downside was trying to set up steering properly.
Then i tried the crew 2, and haven’t tried it since, just doesn’t feel as good.

It’s very easy to mess up imo, or people are pickier with them (or both). Warframe clicked with me, but playing BL2 I just wanted to complete the story as fast as possible and get out. Hard to pinpoint without playing both side by side.

Nah, Sweeney at least has good takes every now and then, can’t remember any from this guy

It’s very unfortunate that all of this shiny new tech is often only present on the latest GPUs, this is a good exception to something that looks like a forever rule.

I understand there were big changes between RDNA 3 and 4, but if you look at GCN and it’s support thru the generations this trend still seems greedy as hell.

Makes sense, blurays are at like 50MB/s read, at least you could keep the disc and share it

I think that’s a bit too big to be just the OS, they have like 50GB of built-in stuff (share factory+astro but you can uninstall both). It’s probably something sensible like 60GB but they’re playing it safe by doubling the reserved space. It’s Sony after all

You lose some because 825GB refers to 825.000.000.000 bytes, divide by 1024 (bytes in KB) and you get 768GB usable space. In the early days of ps5 there was 667GB left over after OS and stuff

You can still get modern games on a bluray, but people started valuing convenience in the moment over everything else. That’s why digital-only consoles got so huge, on top of being cheaper.

I mean… you can still use physical media for games, just prepare for it to be awfully slow unless it’s like a tiny indie game or something low-fi. As for the console makers, they still offer non-digital models. Idk who’s “they” in this instance.

edit: even better, it was pointed out to me it doesn’t have to be slow if you copy the contents of a disc to internal space

Yeah, make kids play half-dead MMOs that will get shut down in two years, I went through that and turned out fine! /s

Didn’t they try something similar in 2042 but on their own servers? edit: portal

Or they’ll just copy Respawn

Not having DRM is better for piracy. So in a way they’re helping “true preservation” more than other platforms that allow DRM.

the same way they were 10-15 years ago

So with more crunch and no unions? It goes both ways, it’s not a monolithic culture where passage of time simply makes things worse

Good, the last time I tried their radiator didn’t want to touch the die

Exactly, it’s an awful treadmill. EA as a whole was at nearly 60% profit last year. Coupled with layoffs, it seems they’re trying to keep that infinite spend as potential as possible lol

I just hope something good comes out of recent ex-rspn teams.

Afaik they’re still using awful third-party servers, lag compensation is still aggressive as fuck, they tried to “fix” visibility by slapping a bandaid in the form of healthbars, and the anticheat thing was another bandaid instead of a surgery. Overall it’s kinda stuck, all of the old issues are still there.

They have a shitload of new cosmetics though, if that’s your jam. Funnily enough, they were so greedy even esport orgs didn’t want to keep working with them. Rspn offered a one-time payment, orgs wanted a percentage of sales. Mind you, it’s a fairly big esport that advertises the game for them (btw played on better servers than available in-game).

Imagine making billions (with an S) off of one game and still calling it a miss. Chasing infinite growth is so dumb.

ER has a 60 fps cap and it sold like crazy, nothing surprises me anymore

Been using TS as a backup for years, can’t complain.

Hah, no way. It’s valve, they’re allergic to that

Depends on the use case. And even at 1080p there are quite a few games that use 8gb or close to it. Ghostrunner and LOTF (2023) come to mind. Although tbf, I played the first one on my RX580 8G (I think) almost maxed out and it did fine.

But if you’re buying a card now, especially at new modern card prices, you want to have at least a bit of future proofing.

My RX580 was so far ahead of it’s time! /s