iTWire writes:
"Everyone knows that the battle between Blu-ray and HD DVD is the most boring battle since VHS and Beta, and won't be won by either format, but will instead be won by downloads direct to hard disks."
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!
Bluray is killing HD-DVD.
It would be a war if HD-DVD even struck back once, but.. getting outsold 9:1 isn't really.. a war anymore.
I think Most Bluray people are getting their favorite movies on Bluray, and buying regular/downloading HD-DVD rips.
Not one person has died over a disc format. Both of which will be around for years to come.
"but will instead be won by downloads direct to hard disks"
I can't wait to download 25GB+ of data over my average 2MB broadband connection...
Thanks, but I'd rather buy a disc so I take films around to my friend's places, instead of the entire sodding machine.
The war is almost over. However, two companies can screw customers up (again) and keep the whole thing running and the consumer confused, this 2 companies are Warner and Microsoft.
An awful lot of people on this site are under the incorrect impression that Blu-ray has won and they consistently state their >opinion< of this as 'fact' when it is actually only an >opinion< and, on this site, that opinion is usually fueled by their allegance to the PS3 rather than any actual advantage offered by the format. For these people, consider the following:
1. The install base for HD DVD doubled in the month leading up to Christmas and a large chunk of those new players were not active until Christmas day and the abundant Blu-ray BOGO sales won't last forever.
2. The gamer effect: As it is, gamers that bought the PS3 at $600 don't all buy Blu-ray discs. Gamers that waited for the PS3 to be $500 are less likely to buy Blu-ray discs than the early adoptors. Gamers that waited for the PS3 to be $400 are even less likely to buy Blu-ray discs. My point is that the trojan effect of the PS3 is diminishing as it gets cheaper. As the PS3 gets cheaper, more and more people are buying it because they want to play games, not movies. Early adoptors justified the expense of the PS3 with it's ability to play Blu-ray, a factor that is less and less important each day to new PS3 owners. Gamers that are price conscious are less and less likely to buy the more expensive high def media.
3. The gamer effect part 2: Inversely, gamers that waited to buy the HD DVD add-on are 100% guaranteed to buy HD DVD discs. Any gamer that buys the HD DVD add-on regardless of how inexpensive it is or how inexpensive they waited for it to become is 100% guaranteed to buy HD DVD discs. In this way the trojan effect of the PS3 will be further diminished as time goes on. More and more 360 gamers will be tempted into buying an HD DVD add-on as it gets cheaper. Every gamer that buys an HD DVD add-on is 100% guaranteed to buy HD DVD discs. As the HD DVD add-on gets cheaper, more gamers will consider buying it. As time goes on, the percentage of gamers that are interested in HD media on either the PS3 or the 360 will balance.
4. The consumer effect: The early adoptors who are less likely to be swayed by price have already made their purchase. The people left who haven't bought into a format are more price conscious. With each and every day that passes, price is becoming a more and more important factor. HD DVD holds 15 GB per layer vs 25Gb on Blu-ray but this design difference is there to leverage the massive infrastructure of DVD. A difference which means HD DVD players will always be cheaper to manufacture and HD DVD discs will always be cheaper to print.
5. The consumer effect part 2: Blu-ray early adoptors mostly paid between $350-$600 for their player. HD DVD early adoptors mostly paid between $200-$500 for their player. In the next six months we will likely find Blu-ray players in the $200-$250 range and HD DVD players in the $100-$150 range. A Blu-ray owner who paid $350-$600 has a good chance of going format neutral on a $100-$150 HD DVD player. An HD DVD owner who paid $200-$500 is much less likely to do the same on a $200-$250 Blu-ray player.