Digital Foundry : In an ideal world, Nvidia's RTX 3050 should be equivalent to an RTX 2060 - but with two gigs of much needed extra memory. We get the 8GB of VRAM with the new card, but performance isn't quite as good as we think it should be.
Microsoft just posted the third quarter of its 2024 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $61.9 billion in revenue and a net income of $21.9 billion during Q3. Revenue is up 17 percent, and net income has increased by 20 percent.
Xbox content + services up 62% while hardware down 31%... seems about right with the way they tout you don't need the hardware to play. People can play on their phones or smart tv or other means. I don't hardly play on my consoles directly since getting devices like the logitech g-cloud and ps portal. Which is to also say I have been playing more digital than physical because of these devices.
Too expensive hardware when others offer the same or more for less? Good work, Green Team.
"Despite some early successes for Xbox games on rival platforms, Xbox hardware is down by a massive 31 percent this quarter."
"Without Activision Blizzard, Microsoft’s overall gaming revenue would have actually declined this quarter."
"Xbox content and services would have only been up a single percent without Activision Blizzard..."
"It looks like next quarter is going to be a similar story for gaming at Microsoft, too."
That is crazy... so A/B/K is carrying the whole Xbox gaming.
Oh and Microsoft will be fine. Windows, Office and Cloud are growing with each pc purchase.
PSLS writes: I have traveled across the country using the Razer Kishi Ultra in airports and hotels for both PlayStation Remote Play and mobile gaming in general, and I am thoroughly impressed.
A new patent recently published by Sony wants to gather biometric data of gamers to track whether one is being harassed using AI tools.
I hope this is one of those patents that never comes to fruition.
I already dislike the fact you can pay a significant amount for a online service buy associated games and content on said service and get banned from that service over potentially a misunderstanding the bans are already handed out for flimsy reasons
I'd rather see money invested in a ban that simply removes the offensive players ability to communicate with unknown players allow them to continue party chats with friends but not with Joe blow on cod.
Take my social security and bank account numbers too! Here’s a picture of my wife and our address.
At this rate I feel Sony will eventually sell a room to play games in it where they can monitor your every breath
I want them to censor erotic content by measuring my groin temperature so i dont get too distracted while playing black ops 2.
Terrible idea. Not only do I not consent to providing my biometric data, the potential for mishandling biometric data is almost a certainty. Positive stress and negative stress can produce similar changes in biometrics. Interpreting the precise emotion a person is feeling is not only invasive but could be easily misconstrued. I hope this never comes to fruition.
The problem with this GPU is the market and as a result the price. It's not bad by any means, however, the market has killed off any chance of this being in the conversation of "the performance is decent, but the value is amazing". Instead we have "this thing is okay at best thanks to RT and DLSS, but has nearly no value because of its price".
It was never going to be a 2060 with more RAM, that would be a 3050 Ti. The performance clearly put it on par with the 1660s / 1660 ti / 1070 GPUs which by now should have become the new performance replacement tier for the $100 - $150 range of used GPUs (the like RX 570 / RX 580 / GTX 1060) were just a couple years ago. But the market is trash, the used market is trash, and as a result each GPU gets released at a ridiculous price that would have been laughed at two years ago.
In a healthy market this GPU would be around $159 which would make it an amazing value GPU. However, it has a MSRP of $249 which drastically hurts it's value, but even more insane is that it's not selling at retail, it's selling at over $400 in many places, when the 3060 and 6600XT are also in the price range, making the 3050 a complete pass.
Good luck getting it at an entry-level price.
Stuff like this just makes me happier about my lowly 3060.. i had borderline buyers remorse when I got it at it’s pretty inflated prices but since then things have just got worse.