those absolute fucks had the gall to put the steam deck dpad in another device
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Real excited for that Steam Machine, depending on price.
Not sure how hard it will be to crack open, but Digital Foundry said the m.2 ought to be user replaceable, so it may just be cheaper to grab the 512 and upgrade later. All depends on price, I guess
the Gamers Nexus video has Valve saying entry level PC and not console priced, which implies a $600+ floor, which is guy_tugging_collar.gif
on the other hand, where else am I going to get a 4L PS5
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itās a ~110W RDNA4 which implies like 18tflops which is slightly better than a PS5 Pro so if they manage to match that price point theyāll be doing great
you misread
itās RDNA3
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oh dang thatās too bad
OK so they probably wonāt beat a PS5 Pro on performance (not a huge difference, more like slightly under rather than slightly over) making it more likely itāll be cheaper than a PS5 Pro
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this came out the other day, for you Kingās Field heads out there
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will this be another lunacid or one of the actually good onesā¦we shall see I guess
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Why canāt I just buy the Steam split controller standalone? Machine seems to have potential. Shortened to SM?
I had just assumed Where the Winds Meet was going to be some wuxia Sekiro-like but reading more about it now I donāt really know what the hell it is exactly. a free to play mmo but itās supposed to play more like a single player game with co-op, you can go to jail for vandalizing npc property and hire a player lawyer to get you out??
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I was interested in this as well, when I thought it was going to be maybe a sort of cross between Gujian 3 and Breath of the Wild. Then I read that it was a free to play Assassinās Creed thing and kind of checked out. If itās also an MMO thatās probably even less my kind of thing
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2rv83LgXiN0
I could see myself going in for one of these at the right price point.
Iām curious how exactly the Steam Frame is going to work as a standalone device.
It has an ARM processor and Steam VR games are pretty much all x86 binaries targeting very beefy PCs. I canāt see those running well on any ARM device.
Are they hoping devs will make ARM ports?
It can stream games wirelessly from a PC. According to the PC Gamer piece, the streaming is surprisingly smooth and high resolution too. Thatās probably how they intend for backwards compatibility to work.
Yes, but what Iām curious about is the standalone part.
DF covered the frame as well.
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x86 ā ARM translation is getting pretty mature. also, a lot of GPU instructions donāt need to be transpiled at all. between Apple and Valve and Wineās investment in this area lately, the overhead is pretty minimal. that said, I expect the headset itself to be specced more or less like a Quest when not streaming, so I think performance will be just OK
also, ARM IPC is pretty much comparable to x86 these days (even snapdragon is only like one generation behind Apple at a time now) and most games have relatively low CPU requirements relative to how powerful modern CPUs are. what this device will do is put Windows solidly in last place for x86 ā ARM translation behind Mac and Linux.
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Do you think though that existing VR games for Windows that target relatively high-end hardware will ājust workā with this though?