I greatly appreciated their ports from the previous releases. Some of the big names should take notice on how properly release older titles to modern systems.

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Quoting: jonorokAs excited as I am to hear this, it's insane to me to think I played The Witcher 3 at 1440p at 55fps with an fx8350 and two R9 380s in Crossfire, ultra settings (Hairworks disabled, of course.) To think a 7900xt would hit 37 fps just for Ray tracing at the same resolution... I mean, I haven't experienced "RTX ON" or whatever, but surely the payoff just isn't there?

Like someone said elsewhere: ray-tracing is Nvidia's way to convince people that they need to expend over a thousand dollars on a graphics card, just to play a game on maximum settings.

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The more things change, the more they stay the same. This thing will burn trough chargers without any remorse. 45W on a gaming handheld?

For over 30 years Nintendo had proven that most consumers buy handhelds for the price and the battery life first, then came other considerations. Every Nintendo competitor bet on more graphical power to lure consumers away, and every single one lost badly.

Now that Valve's Steam Deck is the PC handheld to beat, what every competitor do? More price, more power. And what is worse for MSI? They are coming last to the market with hardware that is worst both in power consumption AND gaming performance. But hey, more competition is better right...

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Why the RX 7900 results were lower than the RX 6700 ones?

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JJR probably was the PC's most successful "mascot platformer" from the early 90's, before people went crazy on FPS games. But if you consider how bad most western platformers were, the bar wasn't too high tough.

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If it had a single player mode where I could fly any aircraft without any restriction, you know, how sims used to be, I would agreed to pay AAA money for it. But to be forced to do stupid stuff to "earn" the right to get a better fighter, or to pay a lot of money for temporary access to those? No thanks. And still had to deal with cheaters and kids on the multiplayer? I rather play IL-2 1946 with its old bugs.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: CatKiller

QuoteNaturally, thanks to Valve's Steam Play Proton, it's likely all of them will be playable on Linux / Steam Deck on or shortly after release in some form.

Given that a lot of Sega's PC games have been released for Linux already it's not out of the question that they'll work on Linux/Deck without Proton.

I guess we have a different definition of "a lot". Going by their publisher page, it's pretty rare actually. The last was Two Point Campus, 2022. Before that were Total War games from Feral, which they no longer do for Linux, and before that Two Point Hospital in 2018.

The majority of their Linux titles were either Feral, or all those retro emulated games in the SEGA collection. I really don't see any of these titles having Native Linux support.

Streets of Rage 4 have a Linux native port, although looking at the Steam page it is distributed by Dotemu.

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A definition of "indie", that only includes it being independent from a big parent company, have a major problem: Star Citizen is developed by a independent studio. And labeling a game with over half a billion dollars in funding by a small army of developers as "indie", makes no sense to me.

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Quoting: elmapuli think the only solution is use an sarcastic label such as "shit games" no company would like to associate thenselves with an negative term...

You underestimate what those big companies are willing to do, when they smell the scent of money in any new market. Big example is the music industry. Any new trend, not matter how ridiculous it is, will be embraced by big labels if they think there is good money in there.

Indie once was synonymous of low budget, almost free games. Now they sell things that look like a indie for almost the price of a AAA game.

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Quoting: BumadarI do wonder how the intel dedicated gfx card development is going, will they continue there efforts and have a follow up for their current generation or is it going to die silently, I not heard much about it, anybody knows ?

My guess is that they slowed down releases of new hardware until their drivers can catch up. The brand is already damaged enough that launching new models will result in more cash loss.

I also don't think they will give up, since they are seeing Nvidia profits in the GPU market and sure they want a slice of that pie. But they also have to start from somewhere, even if the start is problematic as it is right now. They received a lot of goodwill from the community as a alternative from the current duopoly, so that is also encouraging.

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