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I could be horribly wrong, but with a disgruntled console market and SteamOS’s success on the Steam Deck, a plug and play device along with a controller could be very successful at capturing departing console users and it would really give a kick start to linux gaming.

I know there’s lots of people who want to try PC gaming, but are not sure how to or are scared to do so, a Steam Machine would be the perfect device for them, they could just plug it into their TV and be gaming in minutes, just like the simplicity of the Deck.

I think Steam Machines would be successful now.

I also don’t find myself that interested in the games from major studios because they’re generally just not very good.

The next Witcher and Civ VII come to mind. I’m sure their GOTY editions will be great!

Just thought that was funny :D

Tried 6, ended back up on 5. I prefer the simplicity of 5.

Cant wait to try this in 6 years when the full game is released for a reasonable price!

The point is, hardware is powerful enough for native 4K, but instead of that power being used properly, games are made quickly and then upscaling technology is slapped on at the end. DLSS has become a crutch and Nvidia are happy to keep pushing it and keeping a reason for you to buy their GPUs every generation, because otherwise we are at diminishing returns already.

It’s useful for use on older hardware, yes, I have no issue with that, I have issue with it being used on hardware that could otherwise easily run 4K 120FPS+ with standard rasterization and being marketed as a ‘must’.

Legitimate upscaling is fine, but this DLSS/FSR ML upscaling is dogshit and just introduces so many artifacts. It has become a crutch for developers, so they dont build their games properly anymore. Hardware is so strong and yet games perform worse than they did 10 years ago.

Yes, fuck all this frame generation and upscaling bs.

It’s just a popularity contest, always has been. There’s never any critical thinking behind the choices made.

Well, yeah, you are right. They only sell at a loss initially until the hardware is old and therefore cheaper.

Oh yeah, they will still have “cheap” ones, but they will make these “Pro” versions more and more expensive.

PCs are a lot easier to use than they used to be, you don’t have to mess around like you used to, just the initial setup (which is done for you if you buy a prebuilt one anyway).

But yeah, the initial cost puts people off, even though the long term savings are incredible. Ignoring the cheaper cost of games, just from the console online subscriptions over 5 years, you are saving over $400 (and the last generation of consoles was 8 years, so that’s well over $600 of savings).

I’d highly recommend anyone tries PC, you have so much more freedom than you do on a console. There’s a reason the PC market share is growing so fast.

Consoles exist to grift, now they are realising they might not need to sell the actual hardware at a loss anymore.

I agree, but people wouldn’t willingly watch that :D

The game awards is just an advertising show. I don’t understand why anyone watches it.

Like any awards show, the awards are completely subjective anyway, so it’s completely pointless to even care about them, it’s not like an old gaming magazine’s recommendations.

I know it’s easy to say, especially in your case when its a kid, but just dont buy or play games with kernel AC.

These companies only understand money.

Anti cheat should be server side.

A good example of taking something out of context :D

Because a lot of guys online are fucking creeps who want relationships and not just friendships.

And CP2077 was in development for 7+ years, what’s your point?

That they are using UE5 this time, so they can cut more corners in development and have us a nice blurry mess out by the end of next year?

I don’t buy triple A games anymore unless it is really far down the line, so don’t worry. They would have to really surprise me.

I will believe it when I see it because I don’t believe their words at all. CDPR have good PR, but it’s still all corpo bs underneath.

This is already an early trailer, so it seems they are following in CP2077’s footsteps so far.