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It’s Time To Stop Giving Xbox Boss Phil Spencer A Pass
"It’s time to acknowledge that Xbox boss Phil Spencer is making bad decisions."
kotaku.com.au editorial
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How fucking hard is it, just make a 2000's era FPS drenched in nostalgia? (Angry Aspro is here apparently)
Perfect Dark reboot is in ‘a very rough state’“It doesn’t sound like it’s really come together in any way.”
Horse dead, stop flogging:
New The Office Series Confirmed for Peacock Along With a Brand-New Setting
https://www.ign.com/articles/the-office-spin-off-confirmed-for-peacock-along-with-the-new-setting-a-newspaper
Perfect Dark should be an easy game to make these days. MS buys up lots of IPs, but doesn't seem to know what to do with them once they have them.
I was thinking along the same lines this week too. Would I be better off not following the industry as closely as I do? Probably. I started learning who these executives were and the artists with my first gaming magazine subscription to EGM in 1992. I remember reading interviews with Miyamoto, Yu Suzuki, Yuki Naka, Howard Lincoln and Sega's Tom kolinski. I can't blame the internet for my expanded hobbyist knowledge because I had that before I even had the internet. That knowledge is simply a byproduct of the passion we have for games; most of us just want to know everything about them we can. The good and the bad, often to our own detriment.
Brains are stupid...
11 hours in and 25% complete? Wow, this game is going to be a lot longer than I originally thought. I'm still having a lot of fun with it, so I'm happy.
https://hothardware.com/news/nintendo-switch-2-specs-leak-ram-upgrade-twice-storage
Nintendo Switch 2 spec leak points to major hardware upgrade
https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/nintendo-switch-2-spec-leak-points-to-major-hardware-upgrade-4525503
(LEAK) Switch 2 hardware shipments show system RAM, storage
https://www.resetera.com/threads/leak-switch-2-hardware-shipments-show-system-ram-storage-other-console-information.866529/page-3
Nintendo Switch 2 leaks hint at 'near Xbox Series S' specs
https://www.sportskeeda.com/gaming-tech/news-nintendo-switch-2-leaks-hint-near-xbox-series-s-specs
Haven't read everything, watching a video now. 12gb ram confirmed, components are specified. 256gb HDD 2gbs/s.
Magnet joycons confirmed. Dock has fans built in, looks to be running at high clocks docked.
T239 confirmed.
Haven't read the articles but headlines are suggesting switch 2 will be xbox series S level.
The specs appear bigger and faster than what digital Foundry showed in their older video.
By way of a comparison, the original Nintendo Switch ships with 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM, so this is a hefty upgrade, and points to serious ramping up of processing power and a scaling up of resolution output.
While 256 GB of UFS 3.1 internal storage might not sound like a huge amount for a portable device, meanwhile, it’s a massive ramping up compared to the original Switch’s 32GB. This points to a significant scaling up in game file size, again pointing to a significant increase in resolution.
Perhaps the most interesting tidbit here is that the Switch 2 could feature a built-in microphone, whether that’s in the body of the console or the controller. It’s not a quirky feature on a par with the 3DS’s 3D display or the Wii’s motion-controllers, but it might suggest that online social play is a focus for Nintendo’s next console.
1536 CUDA Cores, 48 tensor cores, 12 RT cores
Ampere architecture with features backported from Ada
8x ARM A78C
File decompression engine
12 GB LPDDR5X RAM 7500 MT/s
256 UFS 3.1
Handheld: Right above PS4* before DLSS
Docked: Between PS4 Pro* & Xbox Series S* before DLSS with more modern hardware than the former
RAM: Slower than PS5 & XSX|S in the speed department, but more capacity than XSS. Should have 10.5-11 GB of RAM available to games going by the Switch 1's RAM allotment for its OS.
Storage: UFS 3.1's max speeds should be a hair under XSX|S (2.1 GB/s vs. 2.4 GB/s), still plenty fast even if not maxed out.
Lines up with what Digital Foundry & NateDrake heard about decompression techniques & fast load times of the BotW tech demo (respectively for each source).
* = Not only is the Switch 2 ARM-based rather than x86 like the systems compared, it's also Nvidia vs. AMD. There are plenty of factors at play to where it's not an apples-to-apples comparison. Plus the native Tensor cores of the Switch 2 will allow for DLSS, letting the system punch above its weight & decrease the size of the gap between it & the XSS. Nintendo could throttle down the SoC to the floor, but I'm not sure it'll be a doomsday scenario since this is a custom chip to begin with.
This leak feels very credible. Could that mean a fall release?
I'm suspect they are shooting for a Spring 2025 release like the original Switch.
I think part of it is that back in our days, with the early internet, gaming was still niche so if we wanted to talk to likeminded people, you'd end up talking to enthousiasts online. The kind of people enthousiastic enough to want to go deeper in the rabbit hole. I doubt people playing COD know much about who makes the games.Also, I probably spend more time reading and posting about games than I do playing them. Especially now with smartphones, it's easier to fold reading about games in my busy schedual than actually sitting down for a longer stretch to paly them.
As I drove through Australia for 6 hours today I wondered what reaction my post would get and sort of regretted it, hoping it did not come off as holier-than-thou, especially because I'm one of the pigs covered in muck I'm talking about.
You guys are spot on and I agree with your sentiments and experiences.
Robio, I did reflect on how the ven diagram for wrestling fans and video game fans are broadly overlapped and I've observed (because I am not into wrestling) how most of the wrestling discourse is about what happens OUTSIDE of the ring, not the actual events. The ration seems like 90% outside the ring.
And, as I've discussed before my not being a wreslting fan is purely due to lack of exposure, not a choice I've consciously made. When I arrived in the States in 1989 I was not aware of it at all, and sort of always felt left out of understanding the zeitgeist.
That is fascinating and rings so true.
It totally should. And when in doubt lean into the cheese. It's not like people will be paying for it (it will be on Gamepass). Even if it was a four hour tribute type thing, just shit it out and it's another thing they can put on the banners to promote Gamepass.
It seems 100% real, its based on shipping information from Nvidia and other component suppliers. They even got the fan serial number parts and memory module supplier and parts etc.
Still seems like spring 2025 though.
If this thing has an OLED version day one it will be perfect. And I think it needs two micro sd slots, one isn't enough.
That’s definitely good to hear.