Quoting: eldakingThere is a reason Valve and Nintendo made sacrifices to reach the more moderate price points.

completely agree, its just a matter of seeing PS3 lauch price and how it affected it.
or even the last gen PS4 vs xbox one, sony was selling much more than microsoft, due to (among other things) it being more powerfull and the marketing fiasco microsoft did at the begining of the gen.

microsoft removed xbox requirement puting the price on pair with ps4, and that was not enough, then they did an price cut of 50USD, and that was enough for a little bit, the reason why that was not enough is because sony followed their price cuts.

entrey cost is very important for an gaming device to sell tens of millions of units, more than the price of the games after the initial purchase it seems.

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so...
it started! [External Link]

the oem revolution is here!

i know we had some micro consoles with linux or android before, but i think steamOS will take things to the next level, valve bet is starting to pay of.

maybe things will be like with android x windows, microsoft didnt lose their dominance on the desktop, yet android surpassed then in the user count growing in another class of device.

maybe video game consoles will be the next battleground, or maybe the desktop market will shake, i dont care the result, the future looks bright!

[edit]
ok i could swear they were a bigger company, but i can foresee companies like alienware being the next to enter this market.

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6-8 hours of gameplay

with so many games on my wish list, that is the most relevant info for me

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while i agree that games shouldnt be rated as verified if their online mode dont work, there are some games that i coudlnt care less about the online aspect of it, for those cases i wouldnt mind if they had 2 steam entries, one refering the multiplayer and other the single player, but i can see how that would be confusing for the end users and produce some issues trying to count the ammount of verified/playable games.

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Quoting: mr-victoryThis situation sounds to me like this:
"Google vs Microsoft! Round 2! Fight!!"
Round 1 is obviously the market for smart phones. And we know the winner :grin:

round 1 was google vs windows live search, then bing.
round 2 was android vs windows phone.

as for the round 3, we are years into this battle.

honesly i dont trust google anymore, they seem to want to play this game as an winner takes it all approach, android didnt helped linux desktop, stadia dont seem to help much either, and steam seem to be their last option to bring games to chromebooks to fight the OS war, their plan B.

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Quoting: MohandevirMaybe it needed a little more time in the Experimental oven?

that is why its called experimental to begin with.
its like when i used non LTS ubuntu then complained all the time.
experimental folks test it to make sure its stable enough for people who dont want to be beta testers.

well, i like valve rating system, they market Guilty Gear X2 #Reload as umplayable, and i know the issue with it is the cutscenes missing, if we depend on protonDB it would be rated as "platinum" so despite some errors, i think they are still doing better, hopefully it will be fixed soon for those games with errors, either fixed the rating or the games, i think those games miss labeled should be priority to fix, so consumers who purchased based on those rates wont get disapointed.

BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger is marked as unplayable, great, the 2 i'm waiting...

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omg, i just posted this news in a forum (facebook comunity) then i update the GOL tab and here it is...
i quoted direct from WineHQ, if is saw that you posted this before i would put this news instead.

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Quoting: CalinouThis can be done in Godot 3.x too with a two-Viewport setup:

omg i saw an video about this a few days ago, rendering the game in low-res to save processing power while render the text in high res for redability.

can this trick be used to apply FSR on one viewport (the 3D one) while ignore it on the other?
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actually you just said its possible, but have you tried?

Quoting: 3zekielit will introduce temporal artifacts, (reverse) ghosting

god... read this phrase out of context, that sounds like sci-fi...
"yeah yeah , our time machine will introduce some temporal artifacts, like reverse ghosting but we can fix that with that <lot of techinical terms for an solution>

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Quoting: CalinouThese motion vectors will also be useful for a motion blur implementation in the long run.

i hate when good news come togheter with bad news...
i mean, i didnt knew godot didnt had support for motion blur...

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the list is growing slower...
to be fair, some titles passed as verified then rolled back to unsuported in the past, so maybe valve is trying to improve their Q/A and that is why its moving slower, but still, that is a bad sign, an console need to sustain momentum.

hopefully its a temporray thing and they will double down their speed when they figure out an better way to do Q/A...

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