At least the new version will be free if you have the old one. Wonder what the changes are.

I would guess ai-enhanced backgrounds like we’ve had mods for for ages.

I think economics would basically push things that way. If most people cannot or will not buy the latest hardware, the investment of 600 million dollars or more into a AAAA game that hardly anyone can run won’t happen.

Yeah I checked myself and Bazzite has an Nvidia version now. Installed it last night and it is working great. No Steam Machine needed it seems. The Frame does appeal to me still.

Using 1440p, I’ve not had any major issues with 8GB. It has been a bottleneck that has forced me to turn some resolution/texture settings down though. Indiana Jones is an example that stands out for running poorly, but I’m not buying a new system for that game to run better.

I’d argue it’s also for people who want sleep and resume on a PC for that console experience. I have a 3070ti system, which is older and mid now but still smokes the steam machine, and I’ll be “downgrading” to this because I consider quick resume an upgraded experience. Most games I play don’t even need that power.

Kids want to play what their friends/community are playing.

I’m not disagreeing. Epic’s 12% would still be hugely profitable for Valve.

True that text is small files, but some Skyrim saves are easily in the dozens of MB for example. I’m sure you multiply that by millions and it adds up. Surely them needing to store many copies of the game files themselves is a larger file size footprint for them though.

Lol yep they’re an extremely wealthy company with that 30%. But it seems like almost every other storefront operates under those margins for digital sales (not just in gaming). I do value the cloud saves, I think those would actually add up a bit for their storage requirements as well as hosting all of the game files in presumably many locations globally.

15%, they’d still be a multibillion dollar company

Well, I agree that the writing is really good. But the gameplay hook is what really makes it a great game tome.

I suppose so, but maybe they don’t want to grow too large. Microsoft absolutely devouring studios the last few years has not produced any truly great games. Valve clearly know how to make a good game still, when they want to.

I agree mostly, but Valve employees are reportedly paid an incredible amount of money compared to the market average, so underpaying would probably only refer to the hefty (but industry standard) 30% cut of game sales they take from game publishers.

Also, I’m pretty sure Portal 1 was in development by a studio that was bought by valve when they saw the game prototype. Not exactly “Gabe Newell making Portal”. Though I do think that was a savvy investment (Portal 2 being the better game also).

As an NVIDIA user, I would love an AMD system that supports quick resume like the steam deck. To me, that’s the killer feature that Valve has nailed with SteamOS. Raw performance isn’t a priority for me given AAA games have been shit compared to Indies the last few years.

I love that they gave him a massive bulge. Found him in a run last night.

For sure, the popular opinion on reddit/Lemmy skews towards absolutely self-hosting everything they can, and multi-trillion dollar tech companies controlling AI skews the opinions of the technology negative. I have a BIL who runs self-hosted AI though (requiring 2 x 4090s in series for his use-case), so it can be done. The tech is only as shit as the user allows it to be (environmental concerns, obviously its pretty objectively shit)

You are going to get downvoted, but you’re right. AI doesn’t need to be used for every part of the entire development process for it to be “made with the help of AI”. There are certain parts of the workflow that I’m sure is already being done regularly with AI, for example commenting code.

Mindlessly feeding prompts into chatgpt for the entirety of the core code or art would be terrible.

Cyber dopamine’s test needs to be retested for this to be true. I love gaming on Linux and also regularly use my steam deck yada yada yada but come on.

Cyber dopamine himself says he’s not a benchmark guy as well.

I like him a lot, he’s really passionate and a positive breath of fresh air online, but the guy is surely stoned nearly 100% of the time. No way I’m taking his technical tests at face value.

60-80% better frames on Bazzite for space marine 2 was just too much to not be an error.

Sorry, I should have specified Rebirth doesn’t run well. Remake could well be fine on there