iPhone killer: Can the Tocco take down the Apple?
First up in the battle royale of phones is the Samsung Tocco. Touchy, tiny and with a slightly pretentious name, on paper it could take the 3Gesus phone down to Chinatown.
Omar writes: "With the Horizon Festival coming to breathtaking Japan, you’ll need the essential gear to prove you’ve got what it takes to become a Horizon Legend as you cruise, drift and explore an open world full of spectacular driving experiences. That’s why we’re happy to announce the newest Limited Edition Xbox Wireless Controller and Wireless Headset collection, featuring inspired designs from Forza Horizon 6. The bright cyan and lime colorways celebrate the Horizon Festival’s recognition of iconic cars and hit music, with special features that are sure to impress any collector."
You can get Hall effect controllers slightly cheaper, but you'd struggle to find as feature-rich a package without some heavy, heavy sales.
Pascal Gilcher calls DLSS 5 impressive but shares the "AI slop" sentiment, explaining the likely tech behind it and why he dislikes it.
I fail to see how this is AI shhhhlllloooop. Looking at the different games they showed, this has made many of them look far better.
It's AI slop because it ignores the artists intent and changes the details ESPECIALLY when it comes to character faces. The scariest part of it is introducing it as the next stage of DLSS, a feature where the current iteration already has controversy surrounding it and for quite a lot of games cannot be fully disabled. So reasonably the precident is already set for what path this could take, and it's not good
In case you didn't watch the video then let me point just one part. It overrides the lighting. Then the question of what is the point of ray tracing cost and so on. Many of the lighting deletes shadow, including shadow on the face like eyes even chin.
Why stop at art when it comes to human input - why not just have AI play the game for us, remove human input altogether
If you don’t like it, just don’t enable it. Personally I think it looks great from the videos I have seen.
And what about when you can't? Cause there's plenty of games where you cannot fully disable dlss already, i mean we're well into an era where it's a major crutch for developers to cover up their cut corners, why would this be any different?
You are playing with people's money and allow Nvidia to scam you.
In case you didn't watch the video then let me point just one part. It overrides the lighting. Then the question of what is the point of ray tracing cost. This is all lie to raise the cost of the graphic card.
Making characters look more realistic not ok because we want the developer to decide on how the game was intended to look. - Internet
Change entire game through mods thus changing how the developers intended the game to be is ok. - Internet
Something consumers can do to a product after they have purchased it, entirely optional and can always be undone with a fresh install
VS
The leading gaming hardware manufacturer making this the next iteration of the main AA/Upscaling technique that is heavily relied upod by modern devs and is not optional in most games.
Not at all the same but nice try
At the moment you need 2 5090’s just to get an image on the screen so this is all vaporware until proven otherwise.
It's all about choice in the end. But, I would say that calling it 'more realistic' is quite a stretch. It looks like AI art, and that's rarely realistic.
All the comments I see are reminding me of how we got to the current state of gaming when microtransactions were first introduced: "It's completely optional guys, we promise! If you don't like it just don't buy it!"
I think we all know how that ended up.
I had the same exact thought the first time this was brought up in a separate article about a week ago. Took me straight back to the conversations surrounding “horse armor.” Just don’t buy it they said. Years later, many IPs I previously enjoyed are so infected with monetization schemes that I don’t even consider purchasing them anymore.
DLSS 5 and the like are the same thing wrapped in a different package. History rhymes but many of us never learn from it.
Biggest Scam. Overrides lighting and shadow. So why keep Ray tracing? It's all a scam to raise graphic card. We now see Nvidia with Microsoft downturn anything against them. Sony is next!
Samsung wins!
Samsung are the world leader in consumer electronics! Along with LG, Samsung continue to provide consumers with quality products at affordable prices. This has been so for the last 6 years, Japanese companies are not even in competition, with inferior products at extortionate prices.
Also, Apples entire consumer base are trendy yuppies with far too much money.
the only death here is going to be for samsung..... apple offers too much in terms of integration and whatnot
The Iphone 3G really is the best phone i have ever owned.
Its easy to use, and i really do recomend it to everyone, especially for those in the UK since you can get a far better deal here, than the US is getting
Obviously someone who is jealous that the Xbox 360 is superior thanks to its better games, graphics and online etc.
Anyways dont compare the Tocco its complete garbage, you all need to check out the new Samsung Omnia (i900)
Ever since iPhone came on the scene, even though touchscreen phones existed before the iPhone, companies have bombarded the market with socalled iPhone killers. But what these companies and people are failing to realize is that the iPhone should not be categorized as just a phone, but as a mini computer. Now ask yourself, why does PC dominate over Mac in terms of sales and appeal??? It's because of software, and ever since the app store launched, that opened the door to unlimited opportunities for the iPhone and people that own one. I write this while I am listening to Aol internet radio, one of the FREE apps I downloaded onto my iPhone. Now you Nokia and Samsung advocates know this: it is not just about hardware. You can come out with a much better phone than the iPhone in terms of hardware features, but just as with PC vs. Mac, 360 vs. PS3, iPhone vs. the world, it is going to take software, and the platform for devs to be able to freely develop applications for ANY of these other phones out there trying to compete with the iPhone to really compete at all. Even in Steve Jobs keynote address when he first introduced the iPhone, he acknowledged that the iPhone and what it could do required more than just hardware, it required strong partnerships with other companies to make the iPhone what it is. Bottomline, besides the iPhone living up mostly to all the hype (still no flash, stereo bluetooth) no other phone has a prayer of stacking up against the iPhone unless it offers a dev kit and an app store where free and paid apps are available, and even then you gotta have devs interested in your hardware to even get a small fraction of the apps already available on iPhone's app store.
P.S. How many touchscreen phones does this make that Samsung is trying come out with to battle the iPHone???