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He's not wrong... too many copy cat clones of whatever just recently got hot. I can't even begin to count the trends, and most of them are just filled with garbage. A result of corporate money wanting to chase "safe" investments, not fund anything groundbreaking or innovative. And the more...

There was a point when I was neck deep in MMOs that I would be running 2, 3, or 4 subscription accounts simultaneously (for the same game), at like $15 a pop. And wouldn’t blink an eye at that. I still contend, in my younger days, all my money I spent on MMOs was much less than had I spent even...

Well, for whales, I don't think they are wrong. It's just that's a small subset of players who outlay a disproportionate amount of the cash. But yeah, they enjoy being at the top of the game moreso than actually playing the game.

I'm kinda in this camp, except for a different reason == how many 12VHPWR lines is the APU gonna require? No way that's happening in a console form factor where people will complain about it needing external power bricks and sounding like a jet plane. Physics is a bitch, and I don't think there...

That's when the hurricane/landslide/tsunami/earthquake/Taiwan invasion/Tariffs/bed bugs/walkout/famine/plaque/alien invasion will happen and hit 2 of the only 4 factories capable of making this stuff in the world. At the same time.

Already starting to see some of the blow black from license plate readers tracking cars, and the loose legal requirements on obtaining that metadata. One side saying there's a right to privacy and data like this should only be obtainable with a warrant, and the other side saying your license...

Work already put them in all the work trucks. It yells if you raise your hand up - thinking you are yawning and need to pull over. It complains if you have a drink from a can, thinking it's gotta be beer. It complains if you change lanes too aggressively.

I think at $1k, console gaming goes entirely to Nintendo. That, or the Xbox S edition makes a comeback. I know inflation is a thing and stuff costs more, but hitting that 4-digit barrier, when consoles used to cost half that... I don't think it will do well. Just look at how the PS3 did when it...

Why can't we use AI for something useful - like programming traffic lights so I don't have to sit at a red light, with a bunch of other people also sitting at the red light, and absolutely no one is moving at all? Seems like some of that "climate change" money and revolutionary "AI compute"...

It's not about gamers. It's about shareholders.

I was just being a smartass but all you guys jumped on it literally hah

9000 this go 6000 employees one month ago The carnage with the gaming studios is legendary: https://www.polygon.com/analysis/610779/microsoft-layoffs-perfect-dark-everwild-mismanagement Last year they shuttered 4 studios, including one that had a breakout hit This page hasn’t been updated...

I would not be surprised if this is the case at all Also It takes a ton of resources to put together a card that’s not going to sell big numbers - mostly it’s just there as a halo product and bragging rights. Even at the margins it may get, I think AMD knows they likely wouldn’t be able to...

It was always a matter of when, not if, with Microsoft I feel sorry for those involved, and hopefully it’s clear now - if you get acquired by Microsoft, if you get any buyout cash or severance offer, take it and run. If you don’t, get your resume polished up and start hunting immediately

Good question. Once I moved the Start menu back over to the left, the only way I can really tell W10 from W11 is the random list of trash that pops up if you hit Start

I'm so out of it I can't even find where to enable it in the current drivers

You may not be fond of those games, but I couldn't presume to know if ~they~ are fond of them or not. I assume so, because they keep throwing money at them. Fond covers a broad spectrum - doesn't necessarily mean they have to be good games. Some people are fond of them because of nostalgia, or...

Money always talks. Just tell a dev they get free support is often enough - throw in a bit of "optimization help" and it usually seals the deal.

It's all about the games. No one really cares about hardware specs. And Nintendo doesn't let other platforms play their games.