Thanks for the thumbnail link, I’ve added it

Looks more like a DSSL testing (which had dedicated cores/hardware) rather the actual potential. Also, one single title, wake me when there’s a test to match everything SteamDeck can emulate (Switch 1 too)

If is designed to work on Linux (Linux drivers), that’s all you need to distro-hop the device until the end of time

First off that’s a strawman It’s not just one guy.

If you discuss with an idiot, he can drag into his idiocy; there’s no need to defend Ross Scott, the issue is completely different level.

His (the person you reply to) whole argument is more on the line “they lose, so it mean they must be wrong” (or doing something wrong.

Picture the global politics today: human rights are failing all over and someone say “human rights advocate are losers, and I am cool by saying this”.

There’s dissonance between what people think they say, and what they actually say. @ImplyingImplications thinks he’s cool because denounce the losers while in fact he’s just saying “I don’t deserve these rights” <- he’s the only true loser because his enemies didn’t need to start the fight from the beginning (at the last with himself).

All you have listed are IP, as Nintendo one; the issue is that Nintendo’s IP can be commercially produced for Nintendo’s hardware only. PC don’t have “company IP” (and that’s one of its strength, openness), even Commander Keen appeared on Gameboy Color.

In order to keep with PC openness nature, I would suggest something that come from and to the community itself:

https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/PC-Tan

Weaknesses: Often spaces out remembering old consoles that have passed on (e.g. Dreamcast, Super Nintendo), bursts into tears from these memories as well

…but will it have AI? I mean truly random AI gimmick like Pilot/Cortana whatever. People expected their HMPC for gaming insanely performing and slick, with no bloatware at all… but only Microsoft knows what you all need is some company AI thing that drain processing power to interact with Microsoft servers and spy on you. Nobody knows better than Microsoft how to Zune their way in a new entertainment industry

We have laws to protect children, no other companies: we need laws that hit hard companies that don’t respect people (and other companies)'s rights.

Make small admission to hide a bit trick.

They never care about having a good video game store, they want a good frontend for Fortnite.

Epic is eyeing Roblox: any good game made, no matter where it is sold, will become endlessly cloned in Roblox… almost all the money spend in Roblox, remain in Roblox.

A good game in Epic Game Store? Soon or later it will go on Steam, and Epic will lose some potential money, will go on PSN, and Epic will lose some potential money, will go on Xbox Store and, you guessed, Epic will lose some potential money.

They are pushing hard for artist and coder to get stuck in the Fortnite “Roblox Wannabe” metaverse; that’s their only true goal. Lure developer, trap developers (I would say “Roblox lure child, trap child”, but it sound excessively weird)

I hope more and more indie will start taking Unity space away and turn to Godot,: foolish CEO can destroy the indie alternative to AAA status equo ( Sony, Microsoft, and Epic as their servant). But once on Godot, the engine is in fully in the hands of the people.

They see Epic Game Store as constant revitalization, together with free game: the idea is, indie developers come to EGS to have their recognition (like among us, rocket league, lethal company and many other had); once in the EGS will bombard the customs with fortnite deals… in some cases even cloning successful indie game mechanics in fortnite (it did happen with among us). Basically they want to brute force the indie gaming industry in fortnite: the “metaverse” money they all see in roblox (Facebook, google etc.)

What am I missing here?

Roblox, aka: the money Epic wants

Title fixed, no idea how could I slip that. 🫥

fixed.

Just to be clear, I didn’t mean that 20€ is the right price… honestly I think that if they put the 20$ price tag, it would be still too expensive. If you take a look here you can see the industry standard for online-only games free and paid (Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo don’t share this data; but I think Valve is the overall winner/standard for the last generations of the gaming industry)

I don’t even understand what they mean…

Something on the line “We wish we could charge you the 80$, AAA, price; hoverer, we didn’t implemented decent AI bot for you to play with/against… so we need players themselves to do the job”

TL;DR: 20€/$

It’s worth notice few things; the GPU isn’t “a part”, GPU is “THE” part. You can’t find a viable second hand market for ps5 hardware, but you can find second hand market for 3generations of nvidia RTX (20x0, 30x0, 40x0), a AMD, to get all around the ps5 potential.

You can buy an inexpensive PC with integrated GPU and play indie and AAA titles in very low specs.

Ps5 doesn’t come with AAA graphics until… well, you don’t spent AAA prices for each game. How much for 10 AAA games? 70€x10= 700€

On PC isn’t just cheaper: all your games in your library gets the push up to the additional TFLOPS (PS5 require you to buy PS5 games in order to be tailored around the PS5, not ps4). With emulation ROMS (legal if you have the original copy), you get the push up in graphics for all the games you already bought: running that old ps1 game at 8k 60fps? Can’t see why not.

It’s not a game, but a very laggy fps camera ornated with Quake II textures. That’s actually what’s in it. There are far greater example if someone wants to make good example with AI; but I think Carmack found himself trapped to speak about this because it relate his job on different angles.

A PC, supposedly being able to replace OS, would be counterproductive as it would “disturb” Xbox closed ecosystem if successful. Something locked like a modern android smartphone would be a bit more conservative, but still dangerous if successful.

At this point the most closed/safer option for Microsoft is to simply roll out a mobile Xbox (protected and customized hardware to make impossible to use as alternative). Microsoft could sell at loss, and they could decisively go below SteamDeck price and count that “sleepy Valve” wouldn’t counterattack with anything.

GTAVI will not be just a console exclusive, probably it will become an Epic Store exclusive on PC. There could be tons of useless discussion about what companies shoud or should not do; but in the end, companies exist only to the extend of their customer’s money. T2 strategy paid off, becouse their customer bougt GTAV repetedtly when came on PS3 generation, then PS4, then PS4Pro, then Epic Store and etc. etc.They sold one single AAA multiple time with relatively low effort (definetly not the cost of this many AAA games): their growth was done on their customer’s stupidity, so they now employ the same exact stratgy that works on stupid people… and make money.