Agreed, the best selling dedicated gaming system of the last few years is the Switch, which has less power than many phones.

So are closed source developers.

12GB seems to be the sweet spot for VRAM, but I suspect the real issue is PC devs not really giving a fuck how hit runs on less than their dev kit.

But then a lot of PC gamers seem to think a game should always run at ultra, no matter how good their rig is.

And I will die on this hill: raytracing has been a colossal waste of everybody’s time and money.

Yes, but mostly because most of the gaming PCs in Steam’s hardware survey are not really gaming PCs but just some piss poor spec laptops that can still run old games. Just having a dedicated GPU puts it in the top half.

The GPU in this is in the 7600 RX range of things. It’s marketed as a 1080p card. Can certainly hit 4K on older titles, and output 4K with upscaling.

Don’t expect miracles from it. It’s PS5 level hardware. But that’s good enough for most of us.

While singing “I want to break free” at full blast.

From the GPU specs in expecting a firmly mid range machine. Probably about the price of a PS5 Pro, but with the performance of a base PS5.

Stop trying to make touchpads happen. It’s not going to happen.

They can barely make the other device turn on reliably, let alone have enough planets aligned to let the other device access the internet.

And the DLC is just as good as the base game.

It’s 2018 by a long way for me.

They took out most of the “rargh, Kratos smash!” angst of the previous games and gave us a heartfelt tale of a father and son. The viking setting is a great change of pace. The gameplay is obviously different, but not in a way that’s worse. And the optional post game enemies are a real challenge. Sigrun especially is on par with anything I’ve faced in the Souls games.

I did have to suffer some of the worst pronunciation of Icelandic I’ve ever heard in my life. It’s almost worth it to see my wife wince every time somebody says Niðavellir in GoW Ragnarok.

No thanks, we don’t want it.

Article next year: how 20 million unsold Switch 2 consoles finally killed the world oldest videogaming company.

I’ll likely “lose” some money from my index tracker funds when it happens, but bring it on. I know billionaires will lose a lot more than I will.

Independent Hazelight please. I don’t want to give money to Trumpists or Oil-men.

I can’t think of anyone else they own (and haven’t shut down) that I still give a fuck about. Maybe Criterion still have potential.

A game for everybody is a game for nobody.

I like the fact that everybody seemed to be expecting Grand Theft Horsey, and got a slow paced Wild West sim.

I actually played Assassin’s Creed Origins right after playing this for like two months straight, and it just felt so “gamey” in comparison.

It’s been pretty decent.

Supports Dolby Vision/Atmos etc. Image based subtitles (e.g. those ripped from a disc) end up getting transcoded, but that seems the only thing it doesn’t natively support. Had trouble with AV1 but I’m not sure if that’s a general thing or that one specific file.

I use an nVidia Shield for it. There’s probably cheaper ones, but you tend to get what you pay for, and I’ve got a few 4KBR remuxes that even that struggles on.

It’s a shame because their original Tomb Raider trilogy remaster was really good.

And by “new textures” we mean “just run it through a slop machine and don’t even look at it”

Like a Dr Strange game from the PS2 era.