Yeah, but all those people buying wonky 2GB “PS4 equivalent” GPUs ended up pretty quiet when games later in the generation started using more and more VRAM.

The PS4 CPU was a joke, but it could use a lot of textures.

PS5 (discless edition) did until the USD took an almighty shit.

I mean, you can download the whole thing at any time. Anyone can, including nasty cunts.

The tricky part is training it to forget all those pesky facts he doesn’t like. Because there’s going to be a lot of them.

The important thing is they’re all up to their eyeballs in debt. Teamwork makes the dream work.

Not in cooking, apparently.

Well, some lawyers are about to make a shit load of money as this drags out for a decade.

The main advantage in 4K TVs “looking better” are…

1. HDR support. Especially Dolby Vision, gives noticeably better picture in bright scenes.

2. Support for higher framerates. This is only really useful for gaming, at least until they broadcast sports at higher framerates.

3. The higher resolution is mostly wasted on video content where for the most part the low shutter speed blurs any moving detail anyway. For gaming it does look better, even if you have to cheat with upscaling and DLSS.

4. The motion smoothing. This is a controversial one, because it makes movies look like swirly home movies. But the types of videos used in the shop demos (splashing slo-mo paints, slow shots of jungles with lots of leaves, dripping honey, etc) does look nice with the motion interpolation switched on. They certainly don’t show clips of the latest blockbuster movies like that, because it will become rapidly apparent just how jarring that looks.

The higher resolution is just one part of it, and it’s not the most important one. You could have the other features on a lower resolution screen, but there’s no real commercial reason to do that, because large 4K panels are already cheaper than the 1080p ones ever were. The only real reason to go higher than 4K would be for things where the picture wraps around you, and you’re only supposed to be looking at a part of it. e.g. 180 degree VR videos and special screens like the Las Vegas Sphere.

Loads of them if you stay away from multiplayer slop.

I think game patches were even charged to the developers, which is why a lot of them were loath to patch minor bugs.

Ron Howard narrator: Actually, they would need more.

It’s 2018 by a long way for me.

They took out most of the “rargh, Kratos smash!” angst of the previous games and gave us a heartfelt tale of a father and son. The viking setting is a great change of pace. The gameplay is obviously different, but not in a way that’s worse. And the optional post game enemies are a real challenge. Sigrun especially is on par with anything I’ve faced in the Souls games.

I did have to suffer some of the worst pronunciation of Icelandic I’ve ever heard in my life. It’s almost worth it to see my wife wince every time somebody says Niðavellir in GoW Ragnarok.

I canned Humble when it became apparent that I was just buying next months free Epic games.

Really, I think multiplayer should be free (it’s not like multiplayer games don’t nickel and dime you on top of that anyway) and the game subscription peeled out of it. I’m only interested in the “free” games anyway.

Well, it got you a better experience than whatever it was Sony were doing at the time, which was a weird ethernet adapter, and seemingly every game reinventing the idea of how online should work.

I don’t think it ever needed to be charged for, it just needed to be designed.

I only ever paid for it once they started giving away games with it. Multiplayer alone wasn’t worth it to me.

Yeah, if the Xbox Series S/X could have played my Steam library at that price, I’d have bought one in a heartbeat just to use as a gaming box.

But they’ve already hinted that the next one will be a lot more expensive, and at that point you might as well just buy a PC…

Ratko Mladic has let himself go.

What we’ve learnt over the last decade or so is that it’s a lot easier to generate bullshit than it is to verify it.

Except you have to provide your own beef mince.

I think I’ll stick to lasagne.

They didn’t flee to America. They were recruited.