Digital Foundry Article Technical Discussion [2023]

[RDGoodla]

Steam Deck OLED looks better and reduces input lag.

We already have the news that steam deck will have next-gen. More performance is necessary for higher frame rate. If we could see new steam deck in winter 2024 using N4P process of TSMC, we may have 1.5 ~2x GPU performance.

RAM bandwidth of steam deck is 88 GB/s, can we have more than 150 GB/s in 2024?

Is it technically possible that the deck which links to TV can do some hardware upscaling?

 

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I can respect Kojima for being unafraid to make things that he likes. His games don't feel like they're made by a focus group. They really seem like something he came up with, something he wants to tell. I also think his games are awful.

Except for the parts lifted wholesale from other media (usually film).

 

[Bludd]

we need kojima making the games he makes, but we dont need every game to be like that. and they arent so thats good
i really liked death stranding dc, even though it was weird. his games have an attention to detail that i love

 

[Karamazov]

it's "gaming d'auteur" ^^

 

[mr magoo]

I can respect Kojima for being unafraid to make things that he likes. His games don't feel like they're made by a focus group. They really seem like something he came up with, something he wants to tell. I also think his games are awful.

Bravo! I couldnt say it better.

 

[Johnny Awesome]

Kojima's games are terrible, but they have a following.

 

[Nesh]

Kojima's games are terrible, but they have a following.

If they were terrible they wouldn't have had a following. They are peculiar and not everyone's cup of tea is a different thing from terrible

 

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If they were terrible they wouldn't have had a following. They are peculiar and not everyone's cup of tea is a different thing from terrible

There is plenty of tea that is objectively terrible but quite popular.

 

[Riddlewire]

If they were terrible they wouldn't have had a following.

Battered women stay with awful men.
Perhaps Kojima's fans are the same.

 

[GuardHei]

For the Avatar video, I wonder whether the "raytraced audio" thing is confirmed by the studio? I'm trying to find any source online but failed. Any link would be appreciated.

 

[ILikeFeet]

For the Avatar video, I wonder whether the "raytraced audio" thing is confirmed by the studio? I'm trying to find any source online but failed. Any link would be appreciated.

it's probably from Ubisoft directly. Alex did an interview with two tech members, so he'd hear it from the horse's mouth

 

[GuardHei]

it's probably from Ubisoft directly. Alex did an interview with two tech members, so he'd hear it from the horse's mouth

I actually found the source, it is from a 2021 interview at Ubisoft Developers Conferences
https://news.ubisoft.com/en-us/arti...snowdrop-could-mean-realtime-raytracing-audio

 

[Nesh]

There is plenty of tea that is objectively terrible but quite popular.

You can be more specific with your examples. Popular for being terrible and popular for being brilliant are not the same

 

[Nesh]

Battered women stay with awful men.
Perhaps Kojima's fans are the same.

It's a game for entertainment purposes. Making such connections tells more about those judging the games and their fans, than the fans themselves

 

[function]

It's a game for entertainment purposes. Making such connections tells more about those judging the games and their fans, than the fans themselves

Normally I'd agree, but I've played Metal Gear Solid 2.

 

[Nesh]

Normally I'd agree, but I've played Metal Gear Solid 2.

What about it?

 

[mr magoo]

1 hour 7 min :O OMG

 

[Scott_Arm]

Just skimming the vid the games look so similar I don't know how anyone could get so heated (the communities, not DF) in discussing the differences.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

1 hour 7 min :O OMG

That's a mammoth creation! Must have taken forever - well done!!

 

[Nesh]

I m impressed by how much the Forza devs improved over the years.