I sincerely hope it gains traction, too bad they castrated it by not having defined hardware specs and let 3rd parties just do whatever.
If they had defined specs devs would have to stick to, we'd see highly optimized and well tested games, something PC and console enthusiasts both want. Instead we have PC games broken out the gate with varied performance across the board.
If we could have a reference spec for PC games it would make such a box highly attractive for gamers who just want to enjoy games hassle free and know ahead of time what performance will be like on their systems
No, because the PS4/XO still must run every title that PS4 Pro / Scorpio will run, including VR. So VR is still hamstrung by the old hardware. But then this supposes VR will sell systems. No, because there are no games. We are not seeing weekly reviews of amazing VR games, not even monthly. I believe VR will hit its stride much later, now is only a gimmick. VR needs to find its killer apps.
The fact that Scorpio is a year away and the gap between PS4 and Xbox One can only widen until then makes me think that Microsoft did not see this coming, and are boasting now to hope people will wait an entire year to make any console purchasing decisions. That seems highly unrealistic.
When the 360 was released a year ahead of PS3, Sony was still boasting about the power of the PS3, hoping people would wait. It didn't work, the launched later with a more expensive system and they had to fight the entire generation for game parity and mindshare. Here we have the Scorpio coming a year later, and many speculating that by then PS4 Pro will be $300 and Scorpio will be $400, some thinking even more due to the hardware punch Scorpio is packing.
As we see now with PS4 and Xbox One though, even with the power gap between the two, third party games are still more or less the same on both now, with only Sony/MS titles pushing the hardware. My guess is when Scorpio is out things will be similar, with Scorpio games mainly having slightly higher resolution or more anti aliasing.
It seems like MS is just launching Scorpio so that they don't have nothing at all to compete with until PS5/Xbox Two are out.
Not many people have 4k sets, HDR isn't standardized, and by the time things get sorted out and these end up in peoples' homes, the next generation will be upon us and ready to fully exploit 4k. As it is now, both of these consoles will be struggling to do 30fps at 4k, much less 60fps like people want to see.
These are stop-gap consoles and as such should focus on enhancements that can be appreciated at 1080p like 60fps and additional geometry.
And I don't think this is the start of a rolling console hardware future, which would force console manufacturers to stick with particular APU vendors and perhaps be hamstrung when it comes to compatibility that would allow for hardware iterations.
Anyhow, the Scorpio, MS's console, is still a year away and the PS4 Pro is launching this November, there will be a year head start and all that press going to Sony, anyone trying to wait will have a hard time ignoring all the enhanced games.
When MS's offering is here we will already be 4 years into the current generation, and the gap between Sony and MS would have an additional year to grow. All the games for these stop-gap consoles will have to remain compatible with the older hardware, so we can't really stretch things out to another 8 year generation again.
The fact that Scorpio is a year away makes me think MS were caught with their pants down and are scrambling to have an offering, but I don't think it will have much of an impact before we start hearing about the PS5, which Sony has stated is an eventuality.
You find a set of apps that provide the functionality/convenience you want and eventually there is no more need to forage for tools.
I have a feeling the ones doing all the downloading are looking for entertainment, whose appetite cannot be permanently satiated, so you go looking for a different experience when this one's flavor has diminished.
What came as a shock was that it took so long to see such a visible high profile example of this. Of course this would happen when rigorous quotas are introduced and a job is on the line.
Thanks for the info. That's a shame for the end user, it is a lot of hassle for the average person.
That's another thing that's odd about the Windows world to me, tweaking of the GPU pipeline for a specific game, these optimizations can't be in the game itself? A driver is supposed to open an interface to the hardware, not change instructions on the fly.
If there are all these fringe cases that need to be taken care of it seems unproductive to deal with them in an individual sense instead of creating a single solid foundation. Maybe this is why Windows drivers can be so huge vs other OSes, they are full of all these kludges.
Now you know why they're deprecating Win32 in favor of UWP moving forward, because they want their phones, tablets, and consoles to leverage all the dev work put into Windows desktop apps
"it might seem like a bit of overkill for those users that only used the software to keep their drivers up to date." You're seriously expected to have multiple update services running on your PC for each different piece of hardware? That doesn't sound too effective, convenient, or secure, and a nightmare to schedule (if the given tool even supports that functionality).
Do they have to certify the auto driving system? What is the criteria? Can I just slap in my own homemade system in an existing car like George Hotz and just unleash it on the streets?
"The system will disengage if you ignore those warnings for too long. Electrek reports"
So if you're not paying attention then suddenly you may go careening out of control. I'm not judging this as a good or bad solution to get the driver to participate, but it's the reality. How many people will think they can get away with this (as a couple Tesla owners already do) and then suddenly be in an accident that the autopilot could have avoided if it didn't decide to turn itself off to penalize the driver?
In any case hopefully this works as intended and doesn't leave participating drivers in an unexpected situation.
This is a Hello Games developed, and Hello Games published game. Sony does not have anything on the retail box, no Sony splash screen in the game, it has no link to Sony except that they gave it additional promotion in their presentations, as they do with many other third party games.
I didn't read much about this game before it came out, but it seemed interesting since exploring landscapes is some of my favorite stuff to do in games. So far it seems a lot like Starflight by Electronic Arts which I loved as a kid, and I'm happy with that.
Sounds like a lot of people were promised something that was not well defined, and was partially defined by just the aspirations developers had, and then the potential buyers filled in the gaps with their own ideas of what could be. The first pre-release live streams of the game were interesting for these people because it was the first time the moment to moment gameplay was conveyed. For the last 3 years before nobody really knew.
I meant DOSbox, in the way that it would be used. I'm sure ReactOS would be run in a VM and not as a primary OS, as a method to run obscure third party apps that don't run well or at all on the primary OS. This is how people currently use DOSbox.
"detecting BitTorrent infringement he relies on "direct detection" rather than "indirect detection", and that it is "not possible" for there to be misidentification."
Even if they do have a fingerprint sensor on the other end, those can be fooled.
"Potential applications could include estimated economic output from activity in urban areas, or guiding city governments on how to improve services such as trash collections, he says."
Figuring out what to do or how to do it is not the problem, but getting people in the government to coordinate and execute is the problem. They will no doubt find the most expensive boneheaded contract that will never get anywhere.
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I sincerely hope it gains traction, too bad they castrated it by not having defined hardware specs and let 3rd parties just do whatever.
If they had defined specs devs would have to stick to, we'd see highly optimized and well tested games, something PC and console enthusiasts both want. Instead we have PC games broken out the gate with varied performance across the board.
If we could have a reference spec for PC games it would make such a box highly attractive for gamers who just want to enjoy games hassle free and know ahead of time what performance will be like on their systems
No, because the PS4/XO still must run every title that PS4 Pro / Scorpio will run, including VR. So VR is still hamstrung by the old hardware. But then this supposes VR will sell systems. No, because there are no games. We are not seeing weekly reviews of amazing VR games, not even monthly. I believe VR will hit its stride much later, now is only a gimmick. VR needs to find its killer apps.
The fact that Scorpio is a year away and the gap between PS4 and Xbox One can only widen until then makes me think that Microsoft did not see this coming, and are boasting now to hope people will wait an entire year to make any console purchasing decisions. That seems highly unrealistic.
When the 360 was released a year ahead of PS3, Sony was still boasting about the power of the PS3, hoping people would wait. It didn't work, the launched later with a more expensive system and they had to fight the entire generation for game parity and mindshare. Here we have the Scorpio coming a year later, and many speculating that by then PS4 Pro will be $300 and Scorpio will be $400, some thinking even more due to the hardware punch Scorpio is packing.
As we see now with PS4 and Xbox One though, even with the power gap between the two, third party games are still more or less the same on both now, with only Sony/MS titles pushing the hardware. My guess is when Scorpio is out things will be similar, with Scorpio games mainly having slightly higher resolution or more anti aliasing.
It seems like MS is just launching Scorpio so that they don't have nothing at all to compete with until PS5/Xbox Two are out.
See my other post for more thoughts here
Not many people have 4k sets, HDR isn't standardized, and by the time things get sorted out and these end up in peoples' homes, the next generation will be upon us and ready to fully exploit 4k. As it is now, both of these consoles will be struggling to do 30fps at 4k, much less 60fps like people want to see.
These are stop-gap consoles and as such should focus on enhancements that can be appreciated at 1080p like 60fps and additional geometry.
And I don't think this is the start of a rolling console hardware future, which would force console manufacturers to stick with particular APU vendors and perhaps be hamstrung when it comes to compatibility that would allow for hardware iterations.
Anyhow, the Scorpio, MS's console, is still a year away and the PS4 Pro is launching this November, there will be a year head start and all that press going to Sony, anyone trying to wait will have a hard time ignoring all the enhanced games.
When MS's offering is here we will already be 4 years into the current generation, and the gap between Sony and MS would have an additional year to grow. All the games for these stop-gap consoles will have to remain compatible with the older hardware, so we can't really stretch things out to another 8 year generation again.
The fact that Scorpio is a year away makes me think MS were caught with their pants down and are scrambling to have an offering, but I don't think it will have much of an impact before we start hearing about the PS5, which Sony has stated is an eventuality.
You can notice HDR 10-bit color panels from any distance
You find a set of apps that provide the functionality/convenience you want and eventually there is no more need to forage for tools.
I have a feeling the ones doing all the downloading are looking for entertainment, whose appetite cannot be permanently satiated, so you go looking for a different experience when this one's flavor has diminished.
What came as a shock was that it took so long to see such a visible high profile example of this. Of course this would happen when rigorous quotas are introduced and a job is on the line.
Thanks for the info. That's a shame for the end user, it is a lot of hassle for the average person.
That's another thing that's odd about the Windows world to me, tweaking of the GPU pipeline for a specific game, these optimizations can't be in the game itself? A driver is supposed to open an interface to the hardware, not change instructions on the fly.
If there are all these fringe cases that need to be taken care of it seems unproductive to deal with them in an individual sense instead of creating a single solid foundation. Maybe this is why Windows drivers can be so huge vs other OSes, they are full of all these kludges.
Now you know why they're deprecating Win32 in favor of UWP moving forward, because they want their phones, tablets, and consoles to leverage all the dev work put into Windows desktop apps
"it might seem like a bit of overkill for those users that only used the software to keep their drivers up to date."
You're seriously expected to have multiple update services running on your PC for each different piece of hardware? That doesn't sound too effective, convenient, or secure, and a nightmare to schedule (if the given tool even supports that functionality).
Exactly why I have 6 months worth of "fuck you money" saved up
Just FYI, it comes out November 10th.
Damn great, and love that I can use IRC clients since it his just IRC
Well I don't care for what you have to say but I will defend your right to get modded down for saying it
Do they have to certify the auto driving system? What is the criteria? Can I just slap in my own homemade system in an existing car like George Hotz and just unleash it on the streets?
Could be interesting, as well as sketching on paper/screen with the same pen, I'd at least like to try one out
"The system will disengage if you ignore those warnings for too long. Electrek reports"
So if you're not paying attention then suddenly you may go careening out of control. I'm not judging this as a good or bad solution to get the driver to participate, but it's the reality. How many people will think they can get away with this (as a couple Tesla owners already do) and then suddenly be in an accident that the autopilot could have avoided if it didn't decide to turn itself off to penalize the driver?
In any case hopefully this works as intended and doesn't leave participating drivers in an unexpected situation.
This is a Hello Games developed, and Hello Games published game. Sony does not have anything on the retail box, no Sony splash screen in the game, it has no link to Sony except that they gave it additional promotion in their presentations, as they do with many other third party games.
I didn't read much about this game before it came out, but it seemed interesting since exploring landscapes is some of my favorite stuff to do in games. So far it seems a lot like Starflight by Electronic Arts which I loved as a kid, and I'm happy with that.
Sounds like a lot of people were promised something that was not well defined, and was partially defined by just the aspirations developers had, and then the potential buyers filled in the gaps with their own ideas of what could be. The first pre-release live streams of the game were interesting for these people because it was the first time the moment to moment gameplay was conveyed. For the last 3 years before nobody really knew.
I meant DOSbox, in the way that it would be used. I'm sure ReactOS would be run in a VM and not as a primary OS, as a method to run obscure third party apps that don't run well or at all on the primary OS. This is how people currently use DOSbox.
It could do for old Win16/32 apps what DOSbox did for old DOS apps, letting users and commercial vendors run their old software on modern hardware.
"detecting BitTorrent infringement he relies on "direct detection" rather than "indirect detection", and that it is "not possible" for there to be misidentification."
Even if they do have a fingerprint sensor on the other end, those can be fooled.
"You don't use BleachBit for yoga emails or bridesmaids emails."
Why yes I do, I use it for the most benign shit constantly, because it's easy and automatic. I only archive and preserve the stuff I care about.
"Potential applications could include estimated economic output from activity in urban areas, or guiding city governments on how to improve services such as trash collections, he says."
Figuring out what to do or how to do it is not the problem, but getting people in the government to coordinate and execute is the problem. They will no doubt find the most expensive boneheaded contract that will never get anywhere.
What is the word "otherwise" there for? It simply is illegal activity.