Recent content by aaronspink

All those ships have already been for sale, they are releasing them into the game.

There is nothing "basically" about it. XBO IS running windows. Next major update, IIRC, XBO will be running windows 10. This was explicitly part of the development changes that went into windows 10, to enable basically XBO and PC Windows to be running on the exact same updates and code base...

HBM provides more benefit for IGP than GPU. IGPs are significantly more bandwidth constrained than GPUs are. Even moderate HBM solutions for GPUs provide more bandwidth than they need. A single HBM stack would increase the performance of an IGP solution significantly. The vast majority of...

The 25W chip doesn't need similar performance to the 250W chip, it merely needs enough performance that the TAM for the 250W chip won't cover costs. It is basically the same argument for IGP vs GPU. Every quanta, IGP sucks up more of the TAM, every quanta the GPUs require higher and higher...

Um, pretty sure Hamill jumped at the chance to work with Roberts again. And Hamill has never been poor. The man has almost 300 credits to his name according to IMDB. He gets constant voice work and seems to really enjoy it. And did people really not go into SC with it will be ready when...

That 25% is overall, and the game sales have to offset the actual console sales which retailers basically make 0% margin on. And FYI, they are making 25% margins on a $60 game if they stock in at $45, not 33%. GM is off of sale price, not acquire price (aka GM can never be greater than 100%...

Unless your friend is a major retailer, its likely he doesn't even get tier 1 pricing from his distributor. Unless he's moving very high volume he's going to be at the high end of the pricing from that distributor, esp if he can't move boxes worth of each title. He's one breakdown of costs...

These costs and margins are pretty standardized across all physical media. Major retailers like walmart/amazon/et al aren't going to touch games unless there is significant gross margins, just like with other media. Video games go into the distribution channels at roughly ~$30. Now you aren't...

The only person there will any real knowledge is basically running a mom+pop store and they get totally hosed on pricing. Those guys from the stores saying that their wands give them the wholesale price? HAH!!! Its likely the manager of the store doesn't even get the real wholesale price...

Wrong comparison! The correct comparison is: Console Royalty + retail margin + distribution margin Vs. Stream Margin And in general "retail margin + distribution margin" = 50%. So there's that. Don't know if MS/Sony are double dipping on digital distribution but its highly likely. Way...

PC game piracy is pretty much a complete non-issue resulting in basically minimal at worst loss in sales. OTOH, being able to keep more than 40% of a games selling price is a pretty big factor. You have to sell 2+ copies of a game on consoles to make the same amount as money as 1 sale on PC.

Well to put it in perspective, Chris Roberts has released 1 game where the recommended specs weren't actually available officially at time of release (they released like 1 week later). So yeah. And lets not forget his cohort in crime Lord British who also had a habit of releasing games that...

Main difference is optimization points for rank width. GDDR5 is optimized around x16/x32 where as DDR3 is optimized around 64/128. Is GDDR5 still at BL=8 or did it move to BL=16? Actual DRAM cells/arrays themselves should be virtually unchanged between DDR3/4, GDDR5, HMC, HBM, etc. And the...

no they do not. Also if you haven't killed all the dragons, you haven't finished the game ;)

No, boogie is as usual high on his own fame and completely wrong.