Graphics cards are literally the only component which are stupidly priced these days, just about everything else PC wise is well priced for the performance you get, as for GPUs I think spending just over a grand on a 4080 is stupid when a 4090 is quite a lot faster and "only" maybe £200-£300 or so more.
Hint: It will perform better than PS5 if you have a decent mid range or more PC.
You got a benefit from an SSD for your whole PC for over a decade before consoles even got any, regardless of not having direct storage, which sped up system startup/shutdown, application loading, game loading & level loading.
The next revolution it seems will be in silent (or near silent) solid state cooling like the new Airjet coolers.
I prefer the look/style of these than the newest one tbh.
My issue with a new one: It's gonna be the same gameplay, the graphics will be new and fresher.. Not a bad thing for those who like it, but for me it's gotten stale. Diddy Kong Racing did the single player at least, far better in my opinion.
Completely agree Retroman, most games today are simply better looking versions of the same stuff, recycled over and over. When they do something new, like for example Half Life 2 did in 2004 with the physics and very interactive world, it was fresh and exciting. Now many games take what came before and update the graphics and that's about it, or sometimes have less stuff than in the previous games even.
A new Conker would be nice too, and a new Diddy Kong Racing would make a nice change as well over the standard racers like Mario Kart.
Interesting device but if you have a decent gaming PC it will perform far better (obviously) so unless you take it out with you often it's kinda a waste, unless you play in bed, and that's awkward given its size if you're playing lying on your side at least. The last handheld consoles to be able to do that comfortably were the Vita and 3DS.
Games on good sale are cheap enough via Steam usually anyway, or via a key site to activate on Steam.
Hadn't played any since MP1 and played the newest one, it's really good. The other ones with the shared carriage I wasn't a fan of that I'd seen online though.
I think 1 or 2 of these is enough per system as long as it has enough mini games, replayability, maybe some unlockables and a good selection of boards/maps.
I liked the style of the original Oddworld games, Alien Trilogy was a little underrated as well IMO.. Basically a lot like Doom but with aliens. There were a lot of great games on the PS1 though.
Yeah I wouldn't imagine it being all that great even though I didn't try it, the successor should likely have more decent hardware to do it at least reasonably half decent, for first party titles anyway. Probably still wouldn't be a patch on a decent PC VR headset like a Quest 2 or 3 though.
Current gen is already hitting against limitations of their hardware, as per DF and Hardware Unboxed's recent videos.
Nintendo will likely be fine as long as they stick to first party games that aren't too demanding, third party titles that are demanding will likely run not too good tho, since they're already hitting limits of PS5 & Series X, while games still mostly run decent, they are starting to have more locked frame rates, dips, or even lower resolutio...
Already tools being made for generating landscapes, this "ban" if it even exists, won't last.
I heard the game has poor performance on PC even if you have decent specs, don't know if it has been patched since. Also heard it's short.. But yes, it does look atmospheric, also an interesting time to release this given the ongoing legal drama in the USA at the moment over possible UFO/alien materials. Can't believe there's an actual bill on the government website.
More options is always better, it's also a bonus for those who own a decent PC as well as a PS5 already.
"With the new CPUs current gen are rocking"
They're not new, however they aren't really "weak" either, it's just they have clock speed limitations compared to desktop due to console formfactor. The chips are also 2 generations behind now and we've had decent IPC advances since then. Any demanding games will show the limitations of the consoles. It's just common sense, and it's what always happens with consoles.
Can't stand boring ass games with garbage turn based combat, I think Worms was the only game type I enjoyed that had turn based combat.
Lack of kb & mouse is another issue.
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If you put an SSD in the PS4 it did load stuff a bit quicker IIRC, I think DF ran some tests on it, it had bottlenecks though so it didn't perform as well as if you had one in a good PC.
As for the cooling comment, yeah the new Airjet coolers (no fan) currently work best for hot running SSD's, but they will be used for basically all aspects of a PC or console in future when they can scale 'em up, there's already talks of using t...