This was a thing for a bit in the Xbox 360 era, but disappeared as quickly as it appeared. Wasn’t there some Nvidia thing that also tried to do this on PC?
Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_3D_Vision
Allowed it with any DirectX game apparently.
Lack of NSA funding to run their man in the middle platform that everyone likes.
And there’ll still be too many damn streaming services.
Yeah, PS5 games are made with the assumption that they’ll have access to a 5GB/s drive. It makes sense that they might actually benefit from that. I saw a test of Ratchet and Clank running on a HDD and the main difference was the portals that mask the load times were comically long.
And it’s true the difference in price isn’t that great any more. Personally I’ve got an older SATA in my PC and a NVME. I try to install to the faster drive where I can, but since my PC actually has a worse CPU than my Legion Go S, I’m not likely to see a lot of benefit from it. I suppose you’ve got a better chance of picking up a used SATA drive on the cheap if you really need to save money.
I know they are. For something like database work, they’re amazing. Now go an look at some game load time benchmarks.
Because I can guarantee you they’re nowhere near that much faster for 99% of games. Once you get off spinning rust, CPU speed remains the number one factor in load times. Because nearly everything is compressed and has to be unpacked and processed into the right formats by the system before it can be used.
Picking whatever comes up at the top from googling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeS88O4rWB8
Just scanning though that video I can see the biggest difference is like a second.
DirectStorage was supposed to be able to make game loading faster on faster SSDs, but as far as I can see that hasn’t really happened. The PS5 does actually get noticeably slower if you cobble a slower drive into it, although not really enough to break anything. The decompression units in that hardware are actually pretty good, and can keep up with the faster SSDs.
A 2TB Drive is just over £100, even with the crazy memory prices lately. I’ve got one in my PS5 ffs. A bog standard SATA drive will do practically the same load times as NVME. It’s all about the access time.
Devs should abandon HDD completely. Look how much space they saved here by not wasting it on duplicated resources.
If you’re still using HDD for games in 2025 then what the fuck are you even playing at?
Even the consoles abandoned that.
It’s an obscene price to pay for a GPU no matter how fast it is.
Yeah, the last batch never did either.
It’s going to be priced like a PC and most PC gamers unsurprisingly already have one. You can already stream that to another room in your house with zero lag.
Steam Deck does well because it adds portability into the mix. Something PCs have always struggled with.
That would be scalpees.
Yeah, seems powerful enough for anything pre-HDMI at least. If it’s newer than that, I probably still have the actual hardware plugged in…
Plus surely the browser libraries like CEF are in danger of being unsupported in 32 bit land at some point, if they’re not already.
I saw the Legion Go S for £399 at Costco as well, with 4 times the space. Is there any downside to that one over the Steam Deck? I think it’s marginally better performance and a slightly bigger screen, but is the compatibility as good?
Well it requires a verified source for the data. I don’t see why it excludes open source at all.
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.
I don’t know why they’d think I’d capture 600MB/s of uncompressed video though.
Since the torrent sites are crammed with full quality 4k Bluray remuxes and WebDLs direct from Amazon, there’s clearly easier and better ways of doing this than putting encryption in a cable.