Weren’t you one of the ones around here saying the same stuff about NFTs?

The central issue isn’t philosophical, it’s business. Namely: scale and purpose. If Epic was outsourcing all of this asset creation to a studio 100% run by humans, then their IP lifting practices would be scrutinized even MORE because human IP theft already has laws on the books. Discovery certainly allows for the…

AI poses a lot of threats to a lot of jobs in the industry and poses a whole bunch of problems but I cannot stress enough that “what did you use to train the AI” and “AI produce things that are based on art they didn’t have permission to use” are NOT the avenues we need to be chasing and will only lead to a worse…

It’s unclear why they refunded?  I think I can clear this up.  They did it... for the lulz.

The Xbox has an AMD gpu. Why wouldn’t a developer that Microsoft owns work with the company that supplies the hardware for Microsoft’s console to optimize their flagship new game? I can understand the annoyance to an extent, but can’t get my head around the shock.

As someone who has an NVIDIA card, I don’t really care because FSR runs on NVIDIA cards anyway. And a lot of the reason why I got an NVIDIA card is the featureset between NVIDIA and AMD cards overlap anyway.

That would require Sony and Microsoft to use Nvidia GPUs instead of AMD GPUs. Given how both Sony and Microsoft have been burned by Nvidia in the past, and Nvidia’s current jerk behavior, I doubt that will happen.

Uhh... you do know that FSR works perfectly fine on any company’s GPUs, right? Works perfectly fine on Geforce and ARC, just like it does on Radeon. As long as it supports the Khronos Group-standardized GPU instructions.

Complain to Nvidia for making DLSS exclusive to their chips. Not the console manufacturers (both Sony and Microsoft) that abandoned Nvidia’s cutthroat corporate bullshit after one go.
(Nintendo will probably do the same after their next semi-flop console, which may or may not be their next console, but for now they’re…

Well I made it though the 80s and still enjoyed games. I think this will look superior than 80s tech, so I look forward to playing it.

The FTC’s case has just been weak from the get-go. They say MS might turn previously multiplatform IP into exclusive IP. They say MS might give exclusive content to the Xbox versions of multiplatform games. Even if all of these things are true, they are standard practices in the videogame industry. Sony does them on a…

I have both consoles and I’ve tried to remain as bias-free as possible, but my biggest takeaway from this case and listening to the court proceedings has been that the FTC’s argument is 100% theoretical whereas Microsoft is offering concrete solutions that guarantee access to CoD on PlayStation. The FTC has also done…

This comment section is genuinely unhinged. literally having people calling the root biased both for and against majors when at this point what we know is:

Except MS has a monopoly in the OS market. They don’t have a monopoly in the gaming market. Quite the opposite, actually. They’re a distant third to Nintendo and Sony. This merger won’t change that so why is the FTC freaking out? Remember that anti-trust concerns should only pertain to relevant markets and operating…

I mean, yes, but also if you’re looking into acquisitions explicitly as a way to drive up your revenue, these are things that should be considered.

Pretty sure it’s more to do with whether the game is live service or not. Games like CoD and Minecraft make most of their money from MTX/DLC. As such, keeping them multiplatform makes the most sense. That’s why Marathon is going to be multiplatform.

*cries in FF7 remake* I have it for PS4 but can’t get the expansion for it unless I get a PS5, where as the Xbox side of things I’m good to go. I was planning on getting a PS5 this fall for Spider-Man 2 but October is stacked as it is and I’m trying to do better with money.

All of this still seems to boil down to a double standard that is for Microsoft - Exclusives + bad, trying to drive Sony out of business. Exclusives for Sony - nothing to see here, move along.

Company desires to defeat competition. News at 11.

Ethan, your fanboy is showing. Here’s the stuff that you left out.  This case has done nothing but make the FTC look ignorant.