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

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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.

Looks like they saw what Intel presented one year before ChatGPT popularized AI and they said “Woah, that stuff from Intel it’s cool… let’s also us make a pointless version!”

“I won’t kidnap kids, if that’s what you’re asking”

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.

BattleBorn, Lawbreakers, Skull&Bones and Concord; the biggest f* to AAA (and “AAAA”) industry. You crash, so the Indie rise.

Not a build, what I am thinking it’s exactly as a raspberryPi5 is, just slightly more powerful. The idea is to kickstart sort of DIY PC console, in which Valve sell you just the very bare bones (CPU/GPU/ram and only strictly necessary I/O, just like the RPI5 board) + some key license for games to test things out, then anybody can build up whatever they want, even plugging an external GPU if so they desire.

edit: also this may be of interest

What does Valve actually need: sell a x86 SoC PC for extra-extra cheap… barely capable to run 720p60fpd high quality, and extremely well optimized, videogames such as Resident Evil4 Remake and latest Doom, bundle the SoC with those games to the point it may look as you’re just buying regular bundled games but the PC to run it comes for free.

IE: 140€ to get Resident Evil Remake 2,3 and 4 for +the SoC: You just need to add the disk space (MictoSD/SSD) to download&run OS+games.