Saying whatever makes the investors happy.

I’m glad we have someone to carry all of our rocks and stones.

Especially when high and ultra don’t look that much better than medium and low.

At this rate I won’t be able to replace my 2080 until 2080.

They don’t want us to own our own hardware. We already don’t own (most) of our software or operating systems, even.

At this point it’d be all of them, but unless you’re running a data center buying drives by the hundreds or thousands there’s not a lot of impact you can make.

This is great news. Hell, just the other day I was trying to mod Megabonk on my Legion Go running SteamOS. I’m sure someone will be able to get Vortex running just fine on it eventually, especially if there’s a native Steam Deck/Machine version.

Tossed SteamOS onto my Legion Go last week, and the performance is sooooo much better. I was beginning to wonder why they used such a sharp resolution screen on it because Windows wouldn’t run games very well at the max resolution.

Nintendo says otherwise.

There’s other open-source bits of software to get stuff working like I expect it to, so I’m not too worried.

My plan for the weekend is to install SteamOS on my Lenovo Legion Go. Supposedly it runs stuff a lot better than Windows so I’m looking forward to trying it out.

They aren’t bad, they just aren’t doing anything out of the ordinary. Ubisoft keeps pumping out effectively the same game for every iteration of Assassins Creed and Far Cry. Activision is the CoD machine and has been for some time. EA is… EA. Microsoft refuses to make a good Halo game because they won’t leave their developers alone long enough to see what they can come up with before mandating that it has to be X, Y, and Z.

It’s no wonder that smaller, usually indie, developers are seeing such success. Sony’s been doing well because the games they’re publishing are legitimately good experiences, but that’s only going to last so long before they get tired of spending oodles on singleplayer games and not seeing the returns they want.

Everything’s turned into a live-service game because they’re the only thing that actually generates any kind of consistent return on investment, and everything fancy in those games is out of reach for the common person struggling to get by, so the entire game is held up by a small group spending WAY too much on them.

…Bethesda Fallout. Obsidian Fallout is a different beast entirely.

I am if it finally kills EA. The irony for them to be bought and then shortly killed as they’ve done themselves to so many other developers would be too good.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, The Last Caretaker, Squad, anything using UE5 and Lumen.

Indies, too. Not just big publishers/developers using UE5.

Do you blame them? So many games these days force ray tracing. If your card can’t do that very well, then that game runs like crap.

How else you do you imagine them being able to track your purchases across platforms?

That was Valve more than it was Sony.

Sounds like a sunk cost fallacy. Invest all this money into so-so games, gotta keep doing it or else it’s all for nothing.

Well, I can say for certain a whole bunch of devs were/are out of a job specifically due to the merger, so she’s certainly correct on that point. Prices… one could argue the tariffs and general iffyness about the economy are driving those.

Well, when those 12V high-power connectors inevitably melt, I’ll be one of the ones replacing them. And all the 0402’s that get popped.

As an example of how this tech can be useful: sometimes, games just hitch for a quick second. Can be any number of reasons why. Even on a ‘perfect’ system, it can happen. Such is the case with my PC and emulating android to play Destiny Rising. No matter what, it just likes to hitch occasionally. By using Lossless Scaling’s frame generation, it’s buttery smooth. I don’t notice any input lag (base FPS is 60) so everything’s all good.

I also use Lossless Scaling on my Lenovo Legion Go a lot. Just helps things look that much better.

Probably because the suits don’t play games, so they have no clue what makes a game good or not. All they have is data, but data without context is just numbers.

Been using it on my Lenovo Legion Go for a while now. It just keeps getting better.

Yep, can confirm.

I’ve extensively used my OG Legion Go. Even done a few simple hardware mods to put a bigger SSD in it. I love the thing, and the only real complaint I have is that there isn’t enough RAM.

Wonder if my lifetime membership will stick around.

Yeah, my 2080ti can run everything sans ray traced stuff perfectly, though I also haven’t had any issues with Indiana Jones or Doom: The Dark Ages.

Yarr matey!

Every time I think I want to upgrade my 2080ti, I see another article like this saying how nVidia is just gonna keep making things more expensive.

It’ll have to happen if only because developers won’t be able to afford the hardware either.

…I may or may not have linked that very video to a couple of friends a few years ago. We’ve played every weekend since.

That’s one hell of a poorly kept secret.

Tell that to the Halo Anniversary games.

Gotta be better than Oblivion’s regular combat.

If you think this armor is impressive, wait until you see me out of it.

NGL, I spent more on Destiny 2 crap I’ll never use than actual new games, and I’m depressed by this fact.

That’s me and my Legion Go. Got a dock, wireless keyboard and mouse, swapped the backplate for a new one and got a full-size NVME adapter for it, although the last one is mainly just for keeping the wireless module cool as the SSD heats up a lot. However, the new backplate has extra cooling vents for that, too. Next is adding a heat sink to the new SSD.