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Penny Arcade - Comic - The Name Of The Wind
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Penny Arcade - Comic - The Name Of The Wind
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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Basically both the PS5 and the RTX 3080 video card got bought up by bots yesterday before anyone else could get their hands on them, and now they're being flipped on Ebay for an insane amount of money.
Demon's Souls Remastered is the only one that really got my attention. The others look good, if I can get a PS5 I may pick them up (I strongly suspect Sony didn't put all of them out at once, they'll be doing staggered releases of more into the market to keep hype up and to throw off botters), but that's the one that I'd be preordering if I had also gotten a PS5 preorder.
But also I just want to see if I can actually play Bloodborne without massive frame drops. Probably not, but it's worth a shot.
Early adopters get fucked, time and again. Sometimes worse than others (PS4 early adopters got off pretty easy), but there's always bitter, bitter tears as the biggest blows landed in the console wars are by the manufacturers on their fans (while the other fans laugh and cheer through the swollen lips and black eyes their manufacturer gave them).
Personally I predict a PS3 repeat here. They're not launching as expensive as the PS3, but they're still above the price they dropped it to to free it from the era of the, "lolsony," jokes.
Also, the hardware of the consoles is probably the least important thing, I think. In the age of digital downloads and store platforms and whatnot, and when increase in visual quality is almost negligible gen-to-gen given that the greatest limiting factor is in artistic man-hours and program sophistication, the consoles themselves are little more than a means of advertising each company's store. Come to the grand re-opening of the Microsoft Games Library! The Sony Games Library circus is in town, with a brand new tent!
IIRC, Epic did a whole tech demo showcasing how the crazy-fast read speeds from memory on the PS5 will allow them to save significant amounts of work-hours. If I understood it correctly, the point was that a large amount of the work that goes into high-end graphics is spent on compression, so that a whole level (or equivalent gameplay area) can be loaded into the RAM at one time, but the PS5 (and quite possibly also the new Xbox) can read their storage so fast that Epic's new engine can load things dynamically, allowing developers to cut out that entire step.
Basically, your larger point about diminishing returns on tech is a fair one, but this particular hardware generation will have a new development that should actually help to address the usual problems with advancing graphics.