What Sony need is really immaterial, what Sony's investor's want is publicity for Sony. This is big business for Sony.Sony going for gold here. In any event, it's quite possible as a few fanboys have suggested (on other forums), Sony doesn't need the media to be successful.
lol I don't doubt. Yea I totally think Sony should do this proper. Not sure what is going on.What Sony need is really immaterial, what Sony's investor's want is publicity for Sony. This is big business for Sony.
Housemarque said:We’ve never delivered anything at this scale before. The time is drawing ever closer when our publishing partner will reveal what we are working on, with the launch coming after that.
No, it's "a fortnight" that's two weeks. "In a fortnight" means in two weeks. "In Fortnite" means inside the game. There's no clever word-play here. If it was trying to be clever, it should either say "in a Fortnite" or "in Fortnight" or something. What's written is explicitly a suggestion that the reveal is inside Epic's game with nary a hint at a two-week period.Fortnite = fortnight = 2 weeks = Feb 5th. It's a clever play on words, bonus that it's also gaming related.
Don't suppose anyone could explain or provide a link to the "magical memory paging" MS is supposed to have?
This Microsoft patent posted to era by JackAL(which i haven't seen before and don't think has been spread around much judging from google searches) seems to line up with a lot of what the Xbox team has been saying about using SSD as ram, investing in I/O and also with memory paging magic like Tom is describing it: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190042410A1
Don't suppose anyone could explain or provide a link to the "magical memory paging" MS is supposed to have?
I am unable to differentiate this from what amd described as HBCC, except it might have a nicer address translation to the storage. HBCC is handling the shaders fetching a virtual address space, whatever is translating can be anything including a custom raw storage which might not involve the CPU.Well, i posted about this patent earlier which seems to fit the description pretty well:
2 weeks is enough for the media cover, but if in 7 days later we still get nothing about the event, it may not be Feb 5.
Thing is, Sony is trying to follow what Apple's doing.Yeah, you have no idea of the availability of big media journalists if you want their bylines on the coverage. You don't give big media outlets two week's notice and expect to get coverage unless you are Apple. Big media journalists are king of busy covering tech that sells tens of millions a week/month- not each year. Videogames are niche, old and uninteresting news to most. More people play Monopoly daily!
Explanation would be appreciated by me as well. In the Tom Warren tweet, someone says it sounds like nothing more than HBCC to which Tom "imagine thinking it's just a HBCC". Not sure if Tom is someone knowledgeable enough to make that statement.I am unable to differentiate this from what amd described as HBCC, except it might have a nicer address translation to the storage. HBCC is handling the shaders fetching a virtual address space, whatever is translating can be anything including a custom raw storage which might not involve the CPU.
That's my understanding so far.
Thing is, Sony is trying to follow what Apple's doing.
I am unable to differentiate this from what amd described as HBCC, except it might have a nicer address translation to the storage. HBCC is handling the shaders fetching a virtual address space, whatever is translating can be anything including a custom raw storage which might not involve the CPU.
That's my understanding so far.
Well you don't know whether invitations went out last week or not which would make it 3 weeks, or maybe its later, or whatever. Usually these things are the worst kept secret but Sony's playing it real close to the vest this time, we'll see if that works out for them.Yeah, you have no idea of the availability of big media journalists if you want their bylines on the coverage. You don't give big media outlets two week's notice and expect to get coverage unless you are Apple. Big media journalists are king of busy covering tech that sells tens of millions a week/month- not each year. Videogames are niche, old and uninteresting news to most. More people play Monopoly daily!
Explanation would be appreciated by me as well. In the Tom Warren tweet, someone says it sounds like nothing more than HBCC to which Tom "imagine thinking it's just a HBCC". Not sure if Tom is someone knowledgeable enough to make that statement.
In 2013, it was publicly known Sony was holding an event in three events - reported at the very end of January. How do you book a venue and invite hundreds of journalists and keep it quiet? You can't. Journalistic channels are too full of lowly-paid interns who don't care about secrecy but wish to cash-in on that cache of perceived secrecy.Well you don't know whether invitations went out last week or not which would make it 3 weeks, or maybe its later, or whatever. Usually these things are the worst kept secret but Sony's playing it real close to the vest this time, we'll see if that works out for them.
That's just not true. More people play video games than don't, and consoles represent a large proportion, nearly 30% by my reckoning (43% of 67%). It's a niche, but a bloody big niche.Video games remain niche...video game consoles are toys.