Recent content by Brian_B

Peaked with D2

The AI/Datacenter market is crazy right now. It races until it hits the next constraint: Chips, Power, Water, whatever hits next. I read somewhere that while nVidia has sold a metric buttload of AI chips, only a handful of those are actually installed and working - the rest are sitting in...

I’d leave Windows before I left Steam

nVidia quit well before RAM shot up. In fact, I’d argue nVidia quit PC gaming when they rolled out the RTX branding

External sources - Netflix, Amazon, Tubi, etc. It was basically just a wrapper around your subscriptions, like Roku/Fire/AppleTV do, only they charged an additional sub for it. I think they were trying to work deals with the streamers to include their subs in with the Plex sub, and their...

Usually - not always, but usually... If you purchase the base game on one platform, all the subsequent purchases need to be through that platform to apply to the game. There are some exceptions, it depends on how you do IAP/redeem in your game. But most developers don't let you mix and match...

I'm willing to bet Microsoft ~does~ have some sweetheart deal with Valve. Most of the large distributors do, I'm sure, and the details of such are probably locked behind NDAs. Even Apple has a discount for "preferred" distributors/developers. That said - why shouldn't Microsoft pay them? No one...

Wonder if this is just some clever binning and not actually new silicon

The start of the death knell.

They were trying to integrate external sources as well, and be sort of streaming hub, but that didn't work out for them at all. Then they went and locked external streaming behind the paywall, and that's pretty much where I thought they could get bent.

hahahahahahaha .... ah ... hahahahahahahahaha

10/10

I think this is very true. Also missing out on the folks that purchase it on both platforms. I can see why a boardroom may think that keeping things exclusive and locking you into the ecosystem would be better profit. I also think they are wrong.

I mostly gave up on OS customization when it would keep getting broken in standard updates, and every major release threw out the old design and changed all the rules anyway. Now I'm lazy and just throw everything on the desktop and pray someone doesn't decide to clean it up for me. I haven't...

I was already thinking it was overpriced at $100