The moribund PC market could use a jolt. A lull in the life-cycle of the Playstation, Xbox and Wii may do just that.
In his latest remarks about Valve's storefront, the Epic boss likens Steam commissions to "a car dealership demanding 30% of gas purchases."
A man that basically called all Linux users entitled cheaters and then said "Installing Linux is sort of the equivalent of moving to Canada when one doesn’t like US political trends" is stirring the pot again eh? Pot meet kettle.
Jamie Hore has been writing about gaming for seven years, and somehow still has not figured out how this industry works. Like, seriously. Publishers lowering their prices just because they now pay Valve five to ten percent less? Come on. That just sounds like someone who has not been paying any real attention to the same industry he supposedly covers.
And of course Sweeney had to jump in. That is kind of his whole thing. Instead of actually working on making his own company’s tools decent, he just deflects and points at competitors, hoping people get distracted long enough to forget that his so called alternative is worse in pretty much every conceivable way for the people that actually matter, the consumer.
Not to mention how unbelievably hypocritical he is when he talks about “benefits for developers.” As if his other tool, Unreal Engine, was not responsible for wiping out thousands of positions across the industry by pushing this massive consolidation of tools. Suddenly everyone is using the same pipeline, the same tech, the same shortcuts, and all that really does is make the eyes of publishers and executives shine greener at how much of their own talent they can cut, because now any cheaper third party studio can step in and do the job, quality be damned.
Interesting take, especially when you realize Epic Game Store has yet to tun a profit.
If they spent just as much effort improving the Epic Store as this guy does complain about Steam then maybe they would've set a new standard by now. Thnx for all the free games tho.
EGS really has barely changed since it launched. I don't think he has any room to talk when they've made zero progress in 8 years
Epic store has not caught up to Steam, regarding features, but it hasn't had zero progress for 8 years. Either you are ignorant or a liar, regardless you are wrong
@gerbintosh I've paid attention and the updates. It really is almost nothing in 8 years. They added cloud save is the one big one but is really just an expected feature.
Library organization is still a mess. (separating EGS monthly free games would help)
In 8 years there's no defending the tiny amount it's changed.
And it shouldn't need to be said but again, people do not need to be defending multi billion dollar publically owned companies.
I want them to do well, I would like more competition on the storefronts, so I'm going to call them out.
I was on EGS' side for a while with this kind of messaging but EGS has had years at this point and the client has barely improved it's usability at all. It's really a nuisance to look at my EGS library.
NVIDIA rolled out the DLSS 4.5 update at CES last week, adding 2nd Gen Transformer-based Super Resolution technology for all RTX GPUs. The performance scaling varies wildly across the older (RTX 20/RTX 30) and newer (RTX 40/RTX 50) GeForce RTX lineups. We tested NVIDIA’s next-gen upscaling solution across Cyberpunk 2077, Black Myth: Wukong, Oblivion Remastered, and KCD 2.
I've been surprised by this, the difference between 4 and 4.5 is very noticeable. It's almost completely or has removed that weird dark ghosting that you'd get in foggy games like Silent Hill 2... and Cyberpunk mixed with a high res texture pack is jaw dropping in ultra 4k.
Also if anyone doesn't know I recommend DLSS swapper, it allows you to inject the latest DLSS version into older games.
Quite amazing. But, this does probably mean devs will depend on ai even more for their supposed optimizations lol.
no offense to AMD, but this sort of stuff shows that they are always going to be playing catchup. I guess Nintendo can take advantage of some of these features.
With the Switch 2? NVidia can easily lock their proprietary tech to their latest GPUs and the Switch 2 will be stuck on 3.5 for 5 more years at least
4 and 4.5 are available on 2 and 3 series cards right now. The Switch GPU is based on 3 series architecture, meaning it has access to some of those features. Obviously not as much as the higher end cards, but still some.
"Better than native."
Native 4K in nearly all games nowadays is actually native resolution with forced temporal anti-aliasing.
TAA smears and blurs frames together to soften jagged edges.
Of course DLSS makes games look "better than native" because native alone without any competent AA methods makes games look horrible.
FSR 4 was a substantial improvement to AMD’s upscaling solution. It reduces ghosting, improves finer mesh retention, and particle effects. In most cases, it delivers similar visual quality to DLSS 4’s CNN model, but slightly worse than the newer transformer model.
Since FSR is open-source and nvidia's DLSS isn't, I'd personally always prefer FSR.
Frankly, I think all these differences are nice to know (and notice) about if you're playing at DF level. And I totally respect that very small need to max out performance.
But given the prices, I don't think any nvidia GPU advantage justifies paying 1000+ bucks. I don't see any game(s) exclusively (or not) available on PC that offer a fundamentally different and innovative gameplay experience.
There's never a good reason to own any products from Nvidia. They are one of the most destructive and anti-consumer companies that's ever existed.
Anyone buying and using Nvidia is only contributing to the downfall and end of gaming as we know it now.
With the rise of Nvidia all we've seen is price gouging while their products that continue to become less power efficient and their performance gains are so miniscule you'd need a 100x microscope to notice the AI upscaling. Pathetic really.
Why do you need to pay 1000 bucks for an Nvidia GPU? You can find one that is faster than the PS5 Pro at 400 bucks, RTX 5060 ti 16GB, and it has better upscaling, more VRAM, multiframe generation and RT.
Exactly. Headline says FSR looks like last gen. Implying it's years behind the competition. Article says it's slightly behind.
Examples shown, the difference are barely discernible.
I dont know about anyone else, but I've never had 2 screens playing at the same time to know the difference in performance of a given game. It's like those TV screen comparisons, virtually nobody in the real world engages does this, lol. Performance seems comparable to me. Besides Nvidia is no longer interested in the gaming products, its full steam ahead with "AI".
Yeah, but the gaving division is still 8.5% of their global revenue, and they just made 30% YoY topline growth per quarter. A 11.35 billion business is absolutely massive, and this will continue to increase. That means there's 11.35bn reasons why they won't stop the gaming business, nor lose their focus on it. It's also their pivot if things do not go as well in the AI race. By end of 2026, they have DOUBLED the gaming division business in 5 years.
FY 2025 $11.35 billion 8.6%
FY 2024 $10.45 billion 15.2% (approx)
FY 2023 $9.07 billion -7.5% (approx)
FY 2022 $9.82 billion (approx) 49.6% (approx)
FY 2021 $6.5 billion (approx) 61.1% (approx)
I've been lucky enough to get a new 5090 build in March, glad I went with Nvidia. Cyberpunk looks amazing.
