Fudzilla: Despite Microsoft’s best efforts and a lot of hard work, the Zune has never really lived up to the expectations the company had for the product. Now, we hear that it just might live to get another chance, but this time as something a little different.
Sources tell us that deep within the development labs at Microsoft the company just might be looking very seriously at the possibility of molding the Zune platform into the first Xbox portable gaming platform. When you first hear this, normally your reaction is likely to be… “What are they thinking?” – but after some additional reflection, it might make a lot of sense if you think about it.
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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!
Here is the thing, yes it can be reworked but it doesnt need to at the moment. The Zune HD still has a VERY good ammount of power inside but its Microsoft that is the problem, it is a GREAT mp3 player and with Smart DJ and Divx support its great. Sadly after the 2nd update...nothing. No Zune to Xbox Support, no Xbox Live apps or games, just nothing.
They simply need to re-launch the Zune HD with a good ad campaign this time.
MS should not be thinking this at all. Let win phone 7 do the portable gaming.
Have Nokia, Samsung, LG and HTC and the rest make cell phones running the OS that plays games.
With the Tegra Quad core coming out soon, console gaming on hand-helds and phones will become more of a reality.
http://www.engadget.com/201...
Why waste millions creating hardware when you can get others to do it and license out the OS?
I think the Zune looks pretty sharp. It's just that the iPod has taken most of that market and it's very entrenched.
I doubt this is true, but I think it could make sense for Microsoft from a business standpoint.