The zune may be coming alive. The new Halo zune model currently number one selling product out of all the Game Stop products. There were reports of at least one of the zunes on Game Stop site as being defective. Others just i pod fan boy smack talk who don't even have one. But for the most part people seem to be really excited and pleased with this product. Maybe in due time when you tell someone. Hey I got a zune they wont reply and say what is a zune?
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
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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!
Im glad theres a mp3 player challenging the ipod the ipod just lacks the features that I need. The ipod honestly does not even look all that great I regret buying mine.
was a very innovative concept, it jus seems the first firmware versions were terrible. I know many people where i live where very interested by it, but its not available in europe yet, also, unfortunately its quite restricted due to drm
Many people are sleeping on the Zune. So what if it's a little thicker than a video iPod--it's features more than make up for it; 2x Bigger screen, built-in Radio, Wi-Fi, etc.
People hate cause it's Microsoft but IMO it's a good product. Most of it's weaknesses can be worked out with firmware updates.
apple has the mp3 player market and they have grasped it firmly. There is absolutely nothing wrong with zune but msoft definetly have to come harder and more innovative than wifi and built in radio. Halo 3 is not going to push zune sales no where. the zune is going to fail it was a valliant effort but none the less. Unless you come up with some technology that wirelessly beams music into ur head or sumthin cool that the ppl will eat up. and at the right price? then we'll be talkin
Why do people hate so much on the zune. Its way better then the ipod video in every way. Why wouldnt u want a bigger screen with widescreen viewing and be able to download unlimited music for 1499 a month. i never run with the zune so i dont care if its a little too big but the battery life is awesome, sometimes ill fall asleep and 1up podcasts will run all night and ill wake up and the battery will only be half gone