EDGE - What do developers think of Project Shield, the new gaming handheld which Nvidia claims will ‘do for games what the iPod and Kindle have done for music and books’? While the device runs on Android, this is quite different to most portable devices that run on Google’s mobile OS.
WTMG's Jordan Hawes: "With the advent of NVIDIA's DLSS 5 tools, and the whole debacle surrounding AI usage in AAA gaming, is this new push an opportunity for smaller studios to showcase they are the ones vouching for artistic integrity in the gaming industry?"
They already are. Indie studios are the only developers that constantly strive to publish innovative and experimental experiences. There has been little to no art in AAA gaming, with just a few exceptions.
Indie-studios have been showcasing their creative superiority and bravery over AAA-studios/releases for a while now.
Personally. I have zero interest in AI slop in any of my entertainment, so regardless of what Sony, Ubisoft, MS, EA, etc believe the future is, I'm just not gonna touch any of that stuff.
In reality a dev having a simplistic tech statck does not really impact the end user experience. If the game is good and worth playing is what matters. In other words some cooks make care if 2 or 3 eggs were used to make a cake but the person eating it doesn't. And in the case of DLSS 5 the chef is soley responsible for the recipe and how its mixed together.
Digital Foundry : AI in gaming is a powder keg ready to explode. Does DLSS 5 light the fuse? The Digital Foundry team discuss reactions to DLSS 5 and coverage in the latest Q+A Direct.
It's been a wild ride over the last few days since we first posted about Nvidia's DLSS 5 and it's become clear that the issues raised by machine learning in this guise should have given us pause before we went live with our coverage. We posted too quickly when we needed time to process everything we'd seen.
Watch a preview of NVIDIA DLSS 5 in Starfield. Powered by AI, DLSS 5 infuses pixels with photorealistic lighting and materials, bridging the gap between rendering and reality.
The only thing keeping Starfield alive is the Star Wars conversion modpack: Star Wars Genesis
https://genesismodlist.com/
I won't lie... It's pretty awesome
I can't imagine anyone saying they preferred the look of the original. The NPCs were so bland before.
Of course, the game has definitely gotten better, but the problem for me is that you can actually see the AI filter in the game. It's like the ones edited in the AI application, which you see in YouTube videos. It seems like all the comparison shots are fan-made.
I hope they only changed the lighting, because the lighting part is what really impressed me.
I think I'm fine with the enhanced lighting that is ultimately more contrasty -- I'm not sure I agree it is more realistic or not. The models ofc look a lot better because this is Starfield we are talking about, but it looks like more than just enhanced lightning on the models. It looks like all new geometry being rendered which makes me question if this will ever communicate an artistic intent.
Hey Google, introduce Ai image prompt generation into my games so the original artists renditions aren't even recognizable. Ensure that the public believes the *only* changes are lighting, and has nothing to do with any other external machine learning. Continue to ignore actual hardware perf uplift so Nvidia's GPU prices can maintain their overpriced MSRP, while keeping Ai at the forefront. Optimization is irrelevant.
Quite looking forward to lying in bed and playing some PC games on a handheld.
I just had the greatest idea in the history of the universe and it's all because of the first comment...
Not a mobile gaming device that makes it EASIER to be IMOBILE! yourself, but one that you can use WHILE moving!
Augmented reality overlays!!!
Go jogging and the lightweight lenses and head-mounted unit display an augmented overlay of "obstacles" in your environment, from traditional hurdles to a burning fiery ring, or a freaking tiger or landmine, or Alien all of which you either have to dispatch or evade for points.
Or you could be driving and it can give you traffic, speed, weather, gps, information in an unobtrusive heads up display without you having to turn your head or really take your eyes off the road at all.
Hell, not to mention giving you a portable display unit for watching standard media, music, movies, playing full-screen games, et cetera.
I'd buy one of those.
Nvidia needs to team up with the more "innovative" members of the Sony team, the PSP people. They have good ideas, but need better implementation.
... returns from Project Glass wiki page...
Fu#$#$!!!
Well, at least someone's making it! :)
If they make it pocketable, I'll get one if the price is right. At home I can connect to Steam and play some PC games, on the go I have Tegra games and what not, looks good to me.
Like the wii in the beginning, I think we don't like it because wer're not it's core demographic. It's cool for families who share the main TV and the father wants to play some high end games on the couch mostly. I'm quite surprised how much portables are played at home, so don't understimate this device.
Besides, if they can make the cloud really work, and it looks like it, playing full pc games anywhere, together with hundreds of mobile games sound like a good bargain to me.
@deadlyfire
This device based on these specs happens to be more powerful than the Vita. So in fact it's capable of delivering far superior graphics then the PSP or Vita if developers chose to go in that direction. Have you seen the mac architecture for the Tegra 4?