Recent content by cheapchips

The biggest threat? In what way? (I'd say the biggest threat is always the "what are we doing building hardware?" question)

Indeed. Other alpha's / early days MMOs have been some of my best and most fun gaming experiences. I might have been unlucky, but for want of a better phrase, everyone seemed like miserable sods.

I'm probably not giving this it's due but I did bounce off it. Tried speaking to a few folks and no one was very chatty. I'd joined several hours after launch, so people had started plots up. The most well established seemed to have benches and a few boxes. I wanted to have a homesteading...

Meta's bodged version of Android seems like an awful future for VR OS. :)

We have at least a couple of anecdotes of execs at ABK outside of the game teams themselves enforcing stupid decisions. So probably.

Is that CPU enough to run the equivalent of 16 Zen 2 threads at 3.4Ghz? The NPU, 16Gb and SD card slot aren't useful for Series S compatibility. They're only worth it if it plays PC games too. Just in general, power consumption is a huge challenge in reaching Series S performance.

Wonder with the Sea of Thieves crisper PS5 shadow resolution, like with HiFi Rush, is something to do with UE4? Both titles run on that.

Sadly only stuck on EU servers. Some dumbasses who still think it's 1942 voted our piddly island out of that useful economic party. :)

Look like I'm invited to the Alpha, assuming I have time to play. I'll be on the EU servers though, so please don't be offending if I don't request to group up. :)

The announcement was declared as a partnership with Epic. While that could easily be interpreted as marketing guff, taken at face value it's more likely they'll contribute to Epic's solutions for existing features like Lumen, rather the branching off on their own.

Anyone who's likely to complain about the PS5 extra drive install is unlike to know that they even expand their storage in the first place. :)

Presumably CryEngine still? Certainly has that look.

I really liked that idea. Haven't played animal crossing so it was a new idea to me.

Always seems like a real shame with Xbox cards. The whole point of the chip it used is that it's dirt cheap. In the end, volume wins!

They're not fast enough for Series S compatibility. If Microsoft are not doing that, then it's a confused device.