What if we find a compromise? Instead of getting rid of discs entirely, perhaps Sony could make them smaller. Like some kind of… mini-disc? 😛
There’s plenty of money out there in the economy, we just keep letting private equity buy up everything and funnel it to billionaires while enshittifying the entire world of commerce.
But aside from that you make a good point, if no one will invest in a new studio then that’s a pipe dream. And yeah IIRC the ID folks were regular leaders at conferences like SIGGRAPH so yes this looks bad for the industry 😞
Well the one potential silver lining to firing an entire team at once like this is that hopefully they can turn around and start their own new gaming studio free from the corporate overlords. In which case we all win.
At least, until the leaders of that studio get greedy and sell out and repeat the shit cycle all over.
Look for benchmarks on games you actually play (or at least similar ones). That’s way more useful and practical than the artificial tool scores.
I just did a web search for a popular GPU model + “benchmarks” and the very first result was a Tom’s Hardware page showing how it scores (in frames per second) against a 17 different models and 14 popular games with common resolution/quality settings.
Forget brands, forget series. Look up benchmarks for the things you actually want to run (games? video editing? raw compute?) and find the best bang for the buck on that. And of course find a motherboard to match that CPU and your other needs.
I’ve run Intel, AMD, even IBM PowerPC for many many years and they’ve all been very reliable. The difference just comes down to performance for the job.
I saw Weird Al when his tour hit my city last summer (finally! I’ve been a fan since I was a kid). Yeah I don’t actively follow his stuff anymore but he and the band are still great. Fun show even as an adult.
He actually closed the set with a cover of You Can Call Me Al. From what I understand that’s a regular thing 🙂
I mean I love space, from sci-fi to more realistic. I played a lot of Kerbal Space Program. But I don’t love grinding. I did plenty of that in Warframe but only because the core loop and mechanics feel good and the unlockables are kinda fun. Absent that kind of engagement, no way. KSP requires planning maneuvers but at least there’s time warp and no threats except your own mistakes.
What’s so good about Elite Dangerous? I hoped to enjoy it but bounced off pretty quickly.
There’s an interview with two Valve employees (maybe by Tested? I forget) where they were very clear that this is what RAM they were able to purchase. Otherwise they would simply have to produce far fewer Steam Machines overall. Not very good choices to have when releasing a product…
EDIT: Nope I guess it was n fact Steve from GN doing that interview, clips are in this video, and Valve corrected the statement to say that all machines are shipping with a single 16 GB RAM stick. Damn.
TL;DW?
Gamers Nexus is great but I don’t always have an hour+ for their videos 😐
Let’s see your recommendation, smartypants. The closest prebuilt I’ve heard about is from HP and more powerful but $1500+.
Multiple outlets have tried / are trying to built their own equivalent to the base model and they’re all ending up close to the same $1,000-1,100 price.
Should be called Middle-Out? That was the algorithm IIRC. Pied Piper was the name of the startup.
Either way, funny shit.
I’ll confess I did this once – with Duke Nukem Forever. My old best bud and I played the fuck out of Duke3D back in the day (including building our own levels) and 3DRealms cockteased everyone for well over a decade with their supposed ‘ultimate’ title. So when it finally released I HAD to play it. And of course there was no way it could live up to the hype. It was an inconsistent mess and I powered through it in under 2 hours. I guess I’m glad I played it but it wasn’t even remotely revolutionary… At beast or was like a collection of fan mods bundled into an ‘official’ title. Not at all worth the asking price. I have no desire to revisit any of it so overall I don’t feel like I ripped them off; if anything I feel like they disappointed me majorly as a fan.
I played it so others don’t have to. Yeah, that’s how I’ll spin it 😂