Quoting: MohandevirI just don't believe in the smartphone argument... There is nothing to see there, imo. Gaming directly on a smartphone is sub-par and the screens are too small...

It doesn't appeal to me either, but you should ask Feral Interactive, I guess they've got (more information than us combined and) a different opinion on this matter...

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Quoting: BeamboomThe Nintendo Game Boy iterations were *massive*, like total world domination

Absolutely.

And before it, there were the single game handhelds...

Quoting: BeamboomI would summarise with handheld gaming being a mainstream thing - especially in Japan but also globally - all the way up until the smartphone took over that market. Then it died extremely abrupt.

I thought of it in waves. Game boy, world domination, then nothing notable, PSP and DS, nothing again, smartphones.

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Would this mean specialized OpenGL drivers could be abandoned in favor of Vulkan (only) drivers?

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Quoting: Horie.g. the only reason I know about handheld PS consoles is because when I was little a guy in my school had one (the rich f***) .... one guy, in an entire school - a big school
They might have been popular in certain specific areas... but it doesn't really matter.

Even my former girlfriend, who was not into games at all, knew both Playstation Portable and Nintendo DS.

Nintendo DS sold 154 million, more than any console except PS2:
https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/160549/umfrage/anzahl-der-weltweit-verkauften-spielkonsolen-nach-konsolentypen/ [External Link]

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First one was very good (though I don't even like Visual Novels). I'll buy it... when all episodes are out. Don't want to be left with a half-finished game.

Please all of you buy now though, so the game will be finished. ;)

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we do fully expect any of their future titles to skip over Linux support since it's not likely Microsoft / Xbox will want their next games to be supported on Linux.

I'm not sure owners always use their influence for such changes. Let's see. (But then, it would not be the first developer to stop Linux support, no matter the owner...)

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Quoting: BeamboomFrom a regular consumers point of view I believe this will be a handheld gaming device just like all its predecessors, with its unique pros and cons.

I already own over 300 games that run on it.

Quoting: BeamboomAnd what regular PC game would you want to play on this device? May I remind you that you must take into account the extreme downscale of the screen dimensions here.

Well, that's a good question and in the end would need trying. My favorite genre, point and click, comes to mind though.

Quoting: BeamboomSo I'm in on a bet on this: The market will see this as yet another attempt to breath new life into an old market segment that's pretty much died unless your name is Nintendo. It needs games suitable for a handheld, and it needs a SOLID market penetration for that to happen. And what are the odds for that...
We shall see, but I am no optimist on this one.

I wouldn't bet against you.

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Quoting: CatKillerAnecdotally, with people having done more working from home recently, they don't necessarily want to be tethered to the same machine for entertainment. Being able to do PC gaming while flopped on the sofa could be quite attractive to them.

Not on the same machine, but same monitor, keyboard, mouse for over a year now. Once in a while, I enter my private password at the working machine and vice-versa. It's one of the downsides of home office (which overall is positive for me nonetheless).

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Quoting: CatKillerOn shader compilation: Steam already downloads pre-compiled shaders if your machine has a familiar configuration. This would definitely have a familiar configuration, so it shouldn't have to compile its own shaders for games from Steam.

Downloads yes, but then you have to wait while it does the processing. Sometimes that can end up taking quite some time, if people get impatient and are able to click through it, welcome to stutterfest. It might not be an issue but it's worth thinking on.

I thought downloading the precompiled shaders would avoid having calculations on my own PC? Either way, I would hide that as being part of the game download.

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Quoting: Dea1993i use RADV with latest mesa version.

Which version exactly? Did it get the relevant fix?

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