John from DSOGaming writes: "During a presentation at Gamescom 2018, DICE’s developers confirmed that Battlefield 5 was running with rock solid 60fps at 1080p with NVIDIA’s real-time ray tracing features enabled. This is perhaps the first game that runs at 60fps with NVIDIA’s real-time ray tracing effects as Shadow of the Tomb Raider had major performance issues and Metro Exodus targets 1080p/60fps for its final release."
The PlayStation Mid-Year Deals promotion has a bunch of games worth checking out that are priced at $4.99 or below.
The Nintendo Switch 2 has proved to be a success the world over, however, one nation which is particularly keen on the Nintendo’s latest platform is naturally Japan. Recent sales data has shown that…
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yeah nothing is gonna dethrone nintendo in japan, especially if there's a handheld involved.
Wow… Nintendo is champ in Japan, but the speed of sale is remarkable.
Proves that console gaming isn’t dead yet not by a long shot.
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I guess the resistance against always online and digital only consoles is BS. The people have voted with their wallets.
What are you talking about? Switch 2 is neither always online nor digital only.
Nintendo can literally block your Switch 2 console from accessing their online services at any time. When that happens, it becomes a brick. You won't even be able to play those games that use game key cards that are not installed on the console. Some users who have been blocked tried factory resetting their system, and when they tried to boot it up with a new account, they are stuck.
Speaking of game key cards, the majority of third party publishers have opted to use those instead of loading their full game on those cartridges. Imagine having a library of game key card games and going on a long trip but not being able to play a particular game because you need to connect to Nintendo servers to download the game first. It is not like the old days where you just plug in and play.
Game key cards make sense for large games like GTA, Red Dead, or COD, but I don't see why publishers who have games with sizes less than 32 GB need to use that option.
If you try to mod your system it could get banned from online play like every single system since the ps3 and xbox
The Epic Games Store wants you to join the FDI in this week's free game.
Real-Time Ray Tracking is a good idea, that's just not ready yet.
Everyone is pushing for 4K gaming, and here we have GPUs that are able to push out 4K @ up to 60fps on the vast majority of games, being knocked back down to 1080p @ 60fps, for a better simulation of lighting and reflections.
That's a huge power draw on the theoretical GPU performance, for a visual touch that will more often than not go completely unnoticed by the vast majority of gamers. It's a nice stepping stone toward more simulation realism in games, but this will likely be a minor implementation in the PC market and very rarely in console games outside of indie titles on PS5/XB4, until it becomes a viable solution 5+ years later, which will be in time for next-nest gen.
Cool, but 4k 60 with Raytracing is still far away it seems.
PC back to 1080p, does that means consoles back to 480p?
the fact that you could even do ray-tracing realtime is a feat on its own. i don't think anyone was expecting 4k high refreshrate with ray-tracing in realtime render, and if you were well... you gonna be disappointed for awhile.