Shad Connelly writes: Last February, Blu-ray was crowned victor in the high-definition disc war. With HD-DVD out of the way, Sony and the other Blu manufacturers sat back and waited for the new format to catch fire. Instead, it went cold. Now, the moment of truth has arrived. With lower prices and advanced technology, it's make or break time for Blu-ray. So which will it be?
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!
This is getting completely ridiculous.
At least wait until Christmas and then we'll see how things go.
Blowing up
With the new releases it is clear that BR is growing faster than DVD did in its early days... and he declares this as "going cold". How daft can you get? Maybe he is getting paid to be daft.
The author isn't saying Blu-Ray is dead, he is stressing the importance of the crucial Holiday buying period. If Blu-Ray doesn't see a significant increase in sales, support may start to dry up. If you look at music, it is obvious that music on DVD can be much better since you can easily get more data on the disc. As we all know, this didn't really take off. Instead people went with convenience and the smaller MP3 standard. Consumers clearly wanted portable media instead of high definition sound. The same will most likely happen to movies. We will see our movies stored either on a home server or stored in subscription or pay per use servers in the future. Music looks to be going the same direction.
Personally, I prefer having the hard media, but convenience will most likely be the future in movies like it is in music.
-Death
... why do people not talk about HD satellite when do comparisons and stuff? Around where I live almost everyone I know have dishes and are willing and waiting for the HD sats to come out.
I know the picture's as good as blu-ray but the majority of these people are not tech buffs either, I would go as far as to say they have have never even heard the phrase "Digital Distribution". They all have satellite tv and are ready and are willing to upgrade without the hassel of internet, buying new players, and upgrading thier movie collection. All they have to do is sit on the couch pick the movie they want to buy and it's done.