Chebucto Regional Softball Club

It's about time they ported their Deck performance viewer back to other platforms. It's still a bit touch and go whether it picks up some things. No GPU readout under Linux, for example, as far as I can tell, at least with an Nvidia GPU. The DLSS stuff is interesting, but it wasn't much of a secret before. They took the way they present it from the generally amazing Lossless Scaling and, if anything, I like that you can now compare their solution to DLSS apples-to-apples. I'm a bit confused about their graph display, though. I'm guessing the red line is supposed to be native frames and green is all frames? That's a bit weird, since the color coding on the text is backwards from that. As a side note, it's weird and has always been weird that Steam's performance monitor has a way better time picking up apps than Nvidia's on Windows. You'd think owning the drivers would give you the edge, but nope.

I guess "every new game" is more accurate. I don't know if they are in much of a hurry to go back to the old catalogue. Also, pretty sure by now that there's a bunch of contract blockers in the FromSoft deal preventing the ports. That's not to say they won't eventually sort them out, but that's clearly not a Sony-only thing. For the same reason I wonder if they can get Astro Bot out of the PS5, given all the third party IP thrown all around that game. We'll see, I guess. I think it's telling that you're still thinking back to ME2 when this comes up. It's such a stale debate, but people who got into PC gaming in the aughts seem to be a bit stuck in a talking point that never made sense in the first place. It's even weirder these days, given how much everybody is struggling with accessing high end GPUs and feeding absolutely insane high refresh/high res monitors with the stuff that's available and with maximum settings going all the way to real time path-tracing. Not only are consoles not holding back the high end of PC, the high end of PC is apparently not holding back the high end of PC, and it kinda sucks. Every game is Crysis now and nobody will praise me when I go "I told you so". It kinda sucks.

Hah. I feel extremely attacked. I was going to say I wouldn't do that if you paid me, but... no, yeah, I'll do it if you pay me. Certainly not for free, though. It's mind-numbing in the worst possible way.

They are putting everything on PC and they claim they will keep doing that, so... ideal outcome it is, I suppose. I do think that's better news. PC master race bros typically say consoles are holding PC gaming back, but this is the opposite of reality. PC gaming has benefitted a lot from having a set target hardware spec inherited from consoles. From controller standardization to performance optimizations, PC gaming would be much worse off without a console fixed target. In unexpected ways, too. If you remember the bad old days of PC exclusive games they either targeted unattainable hardware as a tech demo or they aimed at the garbage tier lowest common denominator, which is how you ended up with games looking like World of Warcraft and The Sims for decades. I love PC handhelds, but I certainly would hate for every PC release to be built primarily for those and laptops with mediocre iGPUs.

Man, I'm always surprised by the crap ragebait peddlers latch on to with these boring-ass investor presentations. And I always feel the need to correct the record, which only pisses me off further. So, for anybody interested, this is an investor scripted thing, they mostly are deflecting questions from investors that they don't have answers to. At one point they say the Switch 2 won't eat into their business because they have a different controller. It's all filler nonsense. The quote is somewhat out of context, in that they say there was an overly competitive market, but also that Concord didn't stand out enough to compete. As much of a non-statement as that is, it's not wrong. Surprisingly, the ragemongers gloss over much more worrying stuff in there, like the confirmation that despite increasing subscription prices they are seeing more people buy into the expensive tier, not less (and you're all ruining it for the rest of us, please stop). And they imply they will keep increasing prices, too. They also point out that more than 50 percent of Helldivers' revenue came from microtransactions now. Again, you're all ruining it for the rest of us, please stop. They also confirm they will conitnue to milk that and "maximize revenue". On better news, they pretty much confirm they are making a PS6 when somebody suggests they should go PC and cloud only, so there's that. They also confirm they want to keep making one big single player per year at least and that they are actively looking into new IP. If you read between the lines of investor presentation, they actively acknowledge that Marathon got bad feedback from playtesting and they're trying to salvage it. Although, of course, they never say that outright. This article sucks, and it made me listen to half an hour of investor executive nonsense and that makes whoever linked it not my friend, either. On this, too, you're ruining it for the rest of us. Please stop.

Huh. I mean, she certainly knew before then, given the game has been in development for ages. Pretty sure three days before launch she may have figured. That just makes it weirder that she pointedly mentioned Nintendo told her "yesterday". I guess maybe she meant they told her it's not a one-off thing and they'll go with someone else moving forward? It sure seems the movie(s) are the new North Star for this. I noticed MK World's Donkey Kong also sounds noticeably more... Rogen-esque.