I mean these comparisons are always a bit redundant to me. I get multiplatform games like that on steam, I use switch for Nintendo games and other casual stuff that I prefer to play handheld and are not super resource hogs.

The only people that this would affect are the extreme edge case where you have no PC or gaming laptop or Xbox/PS but have both a deck AND a switch 2 AND you don’t care about the price difference and you really want the best handheld performance.

Yeah first thing I thought too

Ah ok, thank you for the clarification and that does make me feel better about it, though it’s still something I will admittedly always have some discomfort towards.

You’d be grumpy too if you were tied to a post by your feet

Agree with this. SSDs are cheap enough these days that there’s no point living with the disadvantages of a hard disk any more apart from in cases where you won’t notice the difference at all (i.e long term storage with not many reads and writes)

The middle one is a similar kind of configuration to my Mac studio, and if you were to put this APU in an actual build it only comes out a little cheaper so the pricing tracks.

2K isn’t EA as far as I know

I buy CDs and rip them into lossless myself unless it’s not available and then I’ll sail

Still prefer V. I think VII actually looks interesting to me but until they iron out the early issues I’ll hold off.

You must be using knuckle dusters regularly

Similar for me too, had a 980ti and then got a 6800xt a few years ago and I’m fine until about 2030 probably

I do think that as we get more and more ‘all on one die’ solutions that are good enough, coupled with the AI upscaling technologies, everyone other than the extreme enthusiast or enterprise users won’t need dgpus any more in a few years anyway.

I know it might not satisfy the highest of high end gamers but APUs are becoming more and more interesting these days for the more casual gamer. The steam deck already shows that they are viable options, and Apple silicon has massive potential if developers use Metal increasingly more. Even without it some games are running acceptably at least. I’m getting less interested personally in discrete GPUs as time goes on.

Too bad many of the people in my generation who grew up with GTA games stopped caring since we’re all middle aged now anyway.

Also the impact of a new rockstar game today is very different from what it was in the 2000s. There’s so much to play now that waiting a year isn’t that big a deal when you have a giant library of Steam games.

Heh same for me too

I mean this is probably why they’ve given up on making good games if they can make money anyway

Premonition rather than prediction really

Most sources suggest 1100s

For the hardware encoding side it used to be true before OBS introduced better AMD encoder support. I have a 6800XT and it works just fine for streaming casually, though I agree that if you stream professionally then Nvidia is the better option.

Zender, Toby Smith, and the original drummer van Gelder were the true heart of the band (though Derrick is also cool) before it became the Jay Kay show.