I hope DRM-free release will follow. If they pulled off good NPC AI, it can be really interesting.

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Never really used their cloud storage, but just to point out - 35 saves for later parts of playthrough in Cyberpunk 2077 (that's manual and autosaves) take around... wait for it... 302 MB! So with such kind of limit that's not really practical to use their cloud sync I'd guess.

In the early parts of the game saves are much smaller. I guess they somehow accumulate state of the world the longer you play and grow in size significantly.

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Oh, that looks promising. I'll buy it on GOG once it comes out!

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Looks good. I hope GOG release is planned.

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Quoting: LoudTechieValidation.:woot:
Firefox has bad support for HEVC (H.265), due to patent reasons, which is the most popular "webcodec".

H.265 is DOA and will remain so. Anyone with need for better codec that H.264 should be using AV1 today anyway.

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Surprising that Valve aren't doing it yet. Though why do they need CUDA for streaming? Hard dependency on Nvidia GPUs is weird.

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Another thing to point out. The reason Nvidia are cool now with open source kernel module is becasue they moved most of their driver into their firmware blob which does remain a blob. So kernel module is just a glorified shim at this point.

So comparable to AMD their situation is still much worse. The only improvement is potentially better alignment with kernel releases. So don't think Nvidia is a lot more open source friendly now because of all this.

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Quoting: R3BiRtH2 year refreshes may make more sense for the alternative PC handhelds such as the ROG Ally, and Legion go, which aren't targeted as a standard in terms of games having settings and such tailored for it, but for the Steam Deck that makes no sense, since it detracts from the "Deck Verified" system, as well as the seemingly intented purpose for the device to be the standard "lowest common denominator" target for developers to make sure their games are ready to be supported for handheld gaming PC's. A longer cycle makes more sense for a standard to work as a...standard, which would apply to a new device which would be intended to replace what was the standard target, with a new one.

I don't necessarily view "lowest common denominator" as something good, since it can hold back games progress and not everyone cares to make their games scalable to be able to address it properly.

2 might be tight, but 5+ or 7+ years of the incumbent consoles is too long.

There is such issue as consolization of games that causes them to be limited unnecessarily due to console hardware being way behind current hardware capabilities.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeIf the latter group, it should realistically have a similar cadence of release as the console market does.

There definitely is a difference in thought processes between the people who game on computers, and those who use gaming consoles.

I've always seen that console refresh cadence as indication of lack of competition. Imagine desktop GPU and CPU makers would have a monopoly. I highly doubt they'll invest so much money in refreshing hardware as they do now. Same applies to mobile market. They'll try to market their slow progress as "it's good enough" to make that the user's expectation.

So if console market would have been more competitive, we also would have seen refresh cycles being much shorter. At least that's what I think is the real reason.

I.e. that whole "console expectation" is a marketing construct, not something inherently defined.

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Quoting: eldakingIt is far too early to release a Deck 2

Why? Desktop generation of CPUs and GPUs refresh around once per 2 years. Same happens with mobile phones. Why can't gaming handhelds refresh that way too?

Quoting: eldakinghe benefits of a standardized hardware target are negated by too frequent changes

That somehow doesn't bother desktop gaming.

Waste can be an issue, but you aren't forced to buy new hardware every time there is a generation update.

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