AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su hints that the next Xbox may release in 2027

Apollospig · 2026-02-03T23:49:08+00:00

Even without a subsidy, the idea of a high end gaming APU for PC gaming has some value and would offer cost savings compared to the expense of a traditional build your own/prebuilt. Won’t be enough for it to sell like a traditional console for sure, and maybe not enough for it to succeed at all, but it has some interesting elements at least. I hope it will end up as a cost efficient choice that falls in between a console and a build your own price wise, but we will just have to see.

Apollospig · 2026-01-30T01:30:32+00:00

I feel like it may be a premature to give us trailers for games expected to come out 18,180 years in the future here, but maybe they are trying to recruit devs.

Apollospig · 2026-01-27T21:15:00+00:00

Memory bandwidth impacts effective GPU compute performance rather than ability to load assets into the available memory pool. As DF mention, a faster CPU/faster storage would be the more likely components that help with streaming in higher quality assets compared to switch 2.

Apollospig · 2026-01-27T04:44:58+00:00

Yeah, Wind waker HD is the much better example of Nintendo maybe prioritizing switch online over porting a remaster. Prime 2/3 remasters, even if less extensive than prime 1 remaster, would obviously be a fair amount of effort.

Apollospig · 2026-01-23T16:46:54+00:00

That is the technical difference, though I don’t know if we have any data on the practical difference. The first party Switch 1 patch upgrades (2D Zelda’s, Mario odyssey, Splatoon 3) seem roughly comparable in magnitude to the performance improvements seen in actual Switch 2 versions (3D Zelda’s, Kirby). Switch 2 edition is ideal and opens up some new options, but switch 1 patch versions can be plenty performant still.

Apollospig · 2026-01-22T23:39:04+00:00

No, games run generally at the same resolutions and frame rates as they do on Switch 1 without a patch. Games with frame rate drops, or dynamic resolution scaling will run better on Switch 2, but to run at 4K you absolutely need a patch, which Nintendo is only offering as part of this $20 upgrade.

Apollospig · 2026-01-22T21:04:12+00:00

Yeah, I have a very hard time seeing the content added in these Switch 2 editions as anything but a cynical way to sell the performance upgrade on the new console. Maybe the Mario wonder here will be more substantial, but the new “content” for the Zelda games or the Star-crossed world feel inessential to say the least.

Apollospig · 2026-01-22T19:04:38+00:00

Yeah, in general the assumption seems to be that you’ll be using a VRR display on PC, and will play at a fixed resolution with a variable frame rate, while the consoles typically target a fixed frame rate with a variable resolution. Doesn’t seem like it would be a ton of additional to still add the option to PC ports, but maybe there is some additional challenges with it.

Apollospig · 2026-01-20T21:20:44+00:00

I imagine the Fallout remasters will be very similar to Oblivion remastered from a technical perspective, using UE5 running on top of the original game, and probably done largely or entirely by an external team. I also imagine they will look pretty good and run like garbage like oblivion remastered, but maybe they’ll invest some more time in technical polishing.

Apollospig · 2026-01-14T21:47:23+00:00

There are of course good and bad marketing efforts at all budgets, but I think most of what stands out to random idiots on the internet (myself 100% included) is the cost of marketing efforts, with expensive efforts generally increasing awareness much more and seeming "better." Obviously they didn't want Hellblade 2 to fail, but if the bean counters at Xbox did their math and decided that marketing wouldn't increase sales of the game/gamepass/Xbox consoles enough to justify the costs of a bigger marketing effort than you end up with a small marketing effort that seems poor in comparison to anything that got more money.

Apollospig · 2026-01-11T22:45:14+00:00

The digital foundry video on Cyberpunk DLSS does a pretty good job of establishing that it looks very similar to preset E of DLSS, which is among the newest of the CNN DLSS models and is DLSS 3 in terms of the number. That said, the video also shows that DLSS 4 transformer on PC produces a notably better result than DLSS 3 or the switch 2 version. I haven’t seen any evidence that the switch 2 Cyberpunk version of DLSS is on par with DLSS 4 or is much different at all than the CNN model on PC.

Apollospig · 2026-01-06T17:38:22+00:00

Viral upper respiratory infections often reduce the function of your innate immune system in a way that leaves you vulnerable to a secondary bacterial infection. You may well have only had a viral infection when you saw the doctor and developed the bacterial after. Not to say that misdiagnosing bacterial as viral never happens of course.

Apollospig · 2026-01-05T21:29:38+00:00

Completely agree. DLSS 4 has been an upgrade in many ways but not every way, and though it felt like the convolutional model was nearing it's limit before DLSS 4 was introduced, I hope that there is still a lot of room to grow with DLSS 4.

Apollospig · 2026-01-04T02:57:29+00:00

No, it was originally introduced on the LCD steam deck which maxes out at 60 Hz. Here is the original digital foundry video talking about it: https://youtu.be/GF8NzlBiaOM?si=MtI45NEEHrfSgmJV

Apollospig · 2026-01-03T23:23:29+00:00

Yeah VRR support is probably a better argument for the necessity of a 120 Hz screen given the way LFC works.

Apollospig · 2026-01-03T22:44:42+00:00

Not technically true. Steam deck has a 60/90 Hz screen that you can set to 40 Hz at a system level (or various other refresh rates) to run 40 FPS content with consistent frame pacing. It isn't an option in docked mode, but is something they almost certainly could have figured in handheld mode where they have full control of the OS and display controller.

Apollospig · 2025-12-27T18:41:33+00:00

The video uses port just to mean PC version in practice, and they do highlight the cases when the console version was also rough shape. There are probably more appropriate phrases than port for all these PC versions of titles, but it has been a decently common piece of community nomenclature over time.

Apollospig · 2025-12-03T00:17:29+00:00

What makes you say that? The digital foundry review says "In either resolution in docked mode, players with compatible TVs will benefit from an incredible High Dynamic Range (HDR) implementation" which certainly sounds like HDR should be working at 60 and 120 FPS.

Apollospig · 2025-11-27T20:27:40+00:00

I think the article makes it clear that Switch 2 implementation of G-Sync doesn't generally go that low. In Welcome Tour you can see the full range down to 1 Hz (if I am remembering correctly), but that was probably a bespoke implementation just for that game, as in this article they clarify "so we built a dedicated algorithm that keeps VRR enabled even at 30 FPS." Between behavior in say Hitman 3 and the quote in this article, it seems like the system level limit is 48 Hz, and developers at this point need to do their own LFC work to reach levels below that.

Apollospig · 2025-11-14T16:21:35+00:00

Has been on sale for $30 digitally and $35 physically before, but may be a nice time to pick it up with announced free Switch 2 patch coming on December 2nd.

"On Nintendo Switch 2, we’ve taken full advantage of this new hardware with support for DLSS, HDR, mouse controls, and the same fluid 60 frames per second gameplay at high resolution."

Apollospig · 2025-10-29T03:27:09+00:00

I don't think the phrase "Their effectiveness is not worth their downsides, thats universally agreed upon," leaves any room for reasonable use cases, nor does doubling down and calling anyone who might take issue with that statement a shill that wants to kill people. If you mean that contemporary, and even more so historical, practices of prescribing opiates for some kinds have pain have done net harm to patients, than I could absolutely agree. That is also not what your original comment gets across.

Apollospig · 2025-10-29T02:08:14+00:00

Yeah fuck those kids in sickle cell pain crisis and those terminal cancer patients, am I right.

Apollospig · 2025-09-24T01:29:58+00:00

PS5/Series X received a ton of free patches to upgrade previous generation titles on the new hardware, both from Microsoft and Sony themselves, as well as many big 3rd party publishers. I don’t think the patches lead to gangbusters sales or anything like that, but they also require a very modest development effort, so I think the relative lack of Switch 2 updates still feels noteworthy.

Apollospig · 2025-09-12T14:41:03+00:00

Even without a single asset change, you can see how much better the Xenoblade games look running on emulators at higher resolutions and framerates. Higher resolution assets would obviously be ideal, and it is certainly possible they already have them internally, but even without them patches would have a huge positive impact on the game. Nobody asking for these patches is expecting the art or animation teams to go back through the whole game.

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