Ah, This is Embracer. I didn't check, to be honest because I could have sworn EA has a publishing deadlock on everything Star Wars™... I guess that contract expired?
Good point on the books, but to be fair, 'Going to the movies' isn't as much as a hobby as 'Home theatre Film Enthusiast' and in the Home theatre space, $10K is a mid-range surround sound system.
As a guy who has talked with customers face-to-face and sold gaming PCs out of a brick-and-mortar store for over a decade:
There are some who "just want the best" and will 'sort by price: highest-to-lowest' and add two of the top result to cart.
I keep saying this, but PC Gaming is an...
Personally, I think listening to music in Black and White is more moody, especially more subdued tracks. Modern music is best listened to in Colour, in my opinion.
THIS will be the excuse AMD will use to disable AVX-512 on Ryzen. "it's for the environment 😢😢" and not "we don't need to compete with Intel now that they've disabled it, but needed an excuse or else we will get bad press and ruin our 'underdog image' and we can milk professional users to grab...
It's EA... Did you expect something good, with love and care put into it with a great amount of entertainment for the price?
If you did, then why? It's EA. "minimum viable product" is their motto.
For gaming in a dim or dark room? OLEDs are literally the best you can get, hands down. Nothing beats them. Motion clarity, responsiveness, contrast sharpness, literally second to none.
For watching movies? Browsing the web? Doing work? In a bright room or sunlit area? Well, they aren't optimal.
Justify? No, I hate it. But let's face it, Nvidia is testing just how much people are willing to pay for the fun shiny thing. And other hobbies show that they haven't even touched the limit. Other hobbies industries are already at their limit. If they increased prices by 60%, they'd lose more...
Audiophiles are just ONE example of a hobby where $2000 isn't THAT MUCH.
Motorcycles
Cars
RC Aviation
Film/Photography
Metal machining
landscaping
home improvement
Camping/4X4
Hunting
All of these Hobbies are ones where $2000 is a typical trip to their respective stores. Hell, I've seen...
Sony will charge what people will pay. If they don't, people won't pay. If the people do pay, Sony was justified. If the people don't pay, Sony will lower the price until they do.
That's how pricing works, BTW. If a game is cheap, it's because it HAS to be. If its expensive, it's because it...
Computers are a cheap, CHEAP hobby. $2000 is a small price to pay for any kind of motorcycle or car part. Hell, Hi-Fi audiophiles and home-theatre enthusiasts will spend waaaay more on a single speaker, of which they'll buy 5-7 of.
So yeah, the kind of money people are willing to spend on a...
literally asked Bing AI to write a press release about an imaginary company integrating AI into its products. no description of its products:
"ARD, a trailblazing technology company, is proud to announce a groundbreaking milestone: the seamless integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into...
In the end: if people keep spending that kind of money, Nvidia isn't going to stop them.
Imagine if you offered a product, and no matter how many you produced, no matter how much you charged for it... you sold every single one. Now imagine you have millions of people watching your every move...
I'm not exactly hurt about a terrible game being terribly optimised. All of the games that are great, generation-defining hall-of-fame status are usually a bit more frustrating when they don't optimise well, but also, its more rare for a genuinely good game to be terribly optimised.
While I agree that some games aren't well optimised, there ARE "medium" settings for a reason. If a 2024 game's "Medium" looks as good as a 2020 games "Ultra", it makes sense that it would run the same, Right?
But more importantly, I agree that We need more sub $300 cards. I swear, we're...
The reason SMT works so well is that it's completely invisible to the program. It's just another core. If this requires ANY and I mean ANY consideration from ANY developer aside from the OS, then it's enterprise-only.
Not really. They're losing market share, throwing out a "7999.999XXXTXXX AWESOME FAST" card that competes with Nvidia's 4080 in raster and 4060 in RT.
They aren't leaving the high end by choice. no matter what they say. Profit per square-millimetre of silicon at the high-end is ridiculously...
The 4090 is LITERALLY a cut-down die, and Nvidia sells the fully-enabled die in an enterprise-only product.
Yes, Nvidia sits on products and sells the minimum-viable-product to make their profit.
I honestly still use a 1080p TV in my living room. Don't see the need for anything more until I want a bigger TV. I love the idea of 8K for PC gaming on a massive screen in-my-face so I can get the pixel density of a small screen but the awe-inspiring field of view of a big screen, but I also...
But you see, modern companies who have jobs requiring labour and actually moving around (and sometimes even desk jobs too) they don't actually have 'employees' they have independent contractors. One benefit being when things like this happen they can say things like that.
A video about Latency and an Nvidia technology to reduce latency interviewing Nvidia team members.
Nvidia certainly had a hand in organising this. That's not a bad thing and I think it's kind-of obvious.
Like imagine going to a military base, being shown around by uniformed men and...
With how litigious Nintendo is, They probably had a 200-person legal army look over every pixel and byte of this game long before the developers even announced it and determined it was "un-sue-able".
And even if it was a blatant, direct and legally provable pokemon plagiarism, who cares? You...
I just wish AMD would increase core counts. Intel is really taking them to task in productivity.
Or at least slide their name branding up one peg. The world is ready for an 8-core Ryzen 5 and a 12-core Ryzen 7.
I agree that 40FPS is fine if you have a budget machine...
But needing an OC'd 96-core Threadripper and 4090 combo to break 60FPS on an "easy enough to get to this level normally" city is a bit ridiculous
remember, it's all about growth. And not just growth, but rate of growth. and the growth rate of the rate of growth. If your current rate of growth hasn't grown faster than your rate of growth grew last year, you're failing.
Eh, Shoddy versus "graphics aren't the focus" are different. as long as the art style and direction are good and the technology is good enough to fully realise the style, then it doesn't need to be cutting-edge.
I mean, look at Lethal Company. That game is breaking records and making millions...
Same reason why Gearbox owns Duke Nukem and hasn't done ANYTHING with it. IP is a fantastic asset. You can sell merchandise like shirts, hats, music, old games, etc. You can always produce a new product using that IP, and it costs nothing to hold onto, and you can 'estimate' it's value to...
The thing is, there's a market for highest-performance-but-still-upgradeable desktop PCs in tiny, tiny cases such as
If you're doing 3D sculpting by day and playing 1080p games by night, Yes, there ARE more powerful options, yes, there ARE smaller options, yes there ARE more upgradable...
Those are impressive iGPU numbers. I'd love to kit out an ITX retro game machine no larger than a paperback book that can play/emulate just about everything from 2015 and older.