Nintendo is a pretty big international company. I guess because they're an Ltd it's no big deal... then again so is Samsung and they literally used to make weapons too and Nintendo had it's own taxi service and love hotels... but whatever.
The real news is that humans are laughably bad at terraforming anything including our atmosphere and the emissions from everything are hugely overblown never mind the unfounded impact CO2 has on the weather. Funny how the past...
If you want to get into the specifics regarding the carbon footprint of gaming you'd actually be eating about 1,000 times your weight in crow on this one.
Games generate a lot of waste especially when they don't sell at all. Think about the waste sitting on always on servers somewhere waiting to be purchased of those always online servers just waiting for you to log into to play an online match. TV and radio is no different in some ways but the transportation of tha...
True if they want to ban games all those digital distribution methods and streaming options die as well. Say bye-bye to N4G too. We'll be in the dark ages for then next few hundred to few thousand years if they're serious (because they think anthropogenic CO2 specifically lingers for thousands of years while natural CO2 only meanders for 30 or so years).
Wait I thought science was Republicans weak spot?
Hawaiians will be pretty well effed if we go cold turkey on oil.
Hawaii a utopia. 61% of its energy comes from oil. But don't take my word for it:
https://energy.hawaii.gov/w...
That's good.
If we let up the kinds of idiots that would actually ban Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony will make it into office and possibly do just that for real this time especially with all their hysteria surrounding CO2 these past couple of years especially.
@Palitera
Thinks N4G is right wing? Daily Star sure as •••• isn't right wing! 😂
I'm politically in the center and moving more and more to the right every day by simple virtue of the fact that the left keeps on tripping further left.
In The US Socialism is the left's new platform which most people even most Democrats can't get behind. The left wing but not THAT FAR LEFT news outlets have already voiced their concerns about ...
Graphics definitely have a lot of room to improve even from Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020.
I was thinking about hpw much more can be done to improve DRIVECLUB's visuals after I saw it and played it and drove around for a few hours admiring the real world and reminiscing about how glorious DRIVECLUB is... but it occurred to me that DRIVECLUB is just a great starting point and most of its realism came from it's rather accomplished GI lighting systems.
Even ...
PC has generations you just can't be bother to remember them. Nvidia has been releasing cards since 1995. Obviously not all their new cards are faster they release economy cards every year it seems. Basically they longest generations on PC are dictated by real improvements in hardware or software or both. Console generations are far easier to track but general purpose computer (GPC) hardware generations are much harder to track and can be categorized differently because of the breadth of ...
@Imalwaysright
If any of that were true then Nvidia wouldn't be doing business with the cheapest player in the industry.
I personally do to but it wasn't my favorite of all time just my favorite Nintendo Console. The most amazing console I can remember is PSP. PS2 devs did things that game devs still don't do and the hardware was incredible but not the best going by the white sheets despite that it was a great price and I didn't play anything on GameCube or Xbox that blew my mind. PS3 was insane too and despite still being useful to this day the craziest most over-the-top console was PSP. It was bas...
@Spurg
Last I checked those specs were all rumors not an official PS5 whitesheet from PlayStation.
Honestly have to agree it was their most memorable and cherished in my book and it was actually competitive in the hardware arena, sales arena, and software library even though at this point Nintendo was probably still fixing the market.
Because people would like to see Nintendo at their best for a change.
Being real BoTW - outside of allowing players to climb practically anything - offered literally nothing new. The story was also basically non-existent the world empty and quiet outside of some small battles with a few AI at a time. The world wasn't really even THAT large, but it was pretty big for their first real foray into a 3D open-world game (unless there's something I'm forgetting).
@Doink
And @T1125P
While it's true that 3D audio is not new. Raytraced audio is new. Most games already have simulated sound distortions for various things as well as multi-channel surround or stereo surround sound that works by treating one object as a specific sound source and applying audio filters to specific sounds around the player and in fact simple ray casting techniques may be deployed to check for obstructions between the player avatar and sound objec...
Raytraced audio may allow for as many channels as your hardware can support.
On consoles that might have will undoubtedly have an upper limit, but when PC gets its head in the game that can literally translate into infinite upgradeability...
Or you can just use a great pair of stereo headsets and the game will dynamically pump sound into those two channels based on player position, direction, speed relative to any given array of sound sources and distance to any s...
Headsets can't tell you where things are in a 3D space if the software pumping sound to the set doesn't know where things are.
Seriously how do you think this stuff works? PS5 raytraced audio is something developers typically already implement in their games but is never really able to be experienced due to limited audio channels and support for dynamic audio mixing. Many sounds you hear in most games are prerecorded or synthetic sounds playing back at preset volume...
I remember playing WipEout Pure on PSP and was utterly stunned by Studio Liverpool's epic use of that systems admittedly weak speakers... Then I put on headphones!
Now imagine a system that actually treats individual facets of the virtual space like real world objects... I'm pretty sure Sony will deliver exceptional results.
Oh and I tried Dolby Atmos on PC using headsets... I was not impressed by it. I was really expecting to be but I just didn't hear ...
Really some decent internal SSDs still set end users back about $200USD on Amazon right now!
So I'm very skeptical of your ability to buy a new run of the mill SATA SSD. 2TB NVMe drives still cost over $350USD on Amazon right now.
Again NVMe or a potentially even faster possibly proprietary solution is what the article is talking about. If the rumors of such proprietary solutions turn out to be true your new SATA III SSD might be too slow to load in game assets...
I can agree with the outcome but I don't agree with the cause at all. Humans didn't jack the climate up in fact while our emissions rose 720% since 1968 the world's CO2 concentration rose only 299%. Anthropogenic CO2 seems to make up about 3% of the 400-ish PPM of CO2 in any given sample (which is determined by measuring carbon 14 concentration). Yeah we can't do anything to stop any potential climate shift because we didn't start it. Remember when the ice caps started to ...
Should we be worried?
About the carbon footprint of gaming (not Nintendo but all of gaming)? No.
About the UN? Yes: https://www.unenvironment.o...