PCs and Steam: Thread 01

[eastyy]

Sony keeps using different assist studios with each title so it seems like a lucky dip of experience everytime

Iron galaxy is a such a strange studio, looking at what they have done they very prolific with Seasons 2 and 3 of Killer instinct not to mention Rumble verse and a load of ports also acting as an assist studio. I always got the impression that if they have the time and budget they can do well but if not the ports sucks

[fishbowlhead]

Naughty Dog games are always hyper focused to the hardware their created for, there was always going to be teething issues with this one, ND engines just won’t slap and paste onto PC nicely. I’m sure it will be ironed out eventually though.

[hudson]

For those Vampire Survivors fans. A very decent clone set in space is available for £2.49 on Steam. Works great on Steam Deck too.
Time Wasters

[briareos_kerensky]

Asus reveal the ROG Ally, a competitor to the Steam Deck.
The Ally features a 1920x1080 at 120hz, lower noise compared to the Deck, about 60g lighter, and will be powered by a Zen 4 CPU and a RDNA 3 GPU. So far only one SSD size has been announced, 512GB, and no word about RAM. Curiously enough, the battery will be compatible with the Deck, and it will only run Windows.
No price given.

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[huxley]

What do we think on price £599?

[briareos_kerensky]

Sounds about right, and Asus don't want to go higher than that.

[MartyG]

No chance, this is going to be £800 min, I'd suspect with a 1TB it'll be hitting £999 - it's ROG branded.

[Neon Ignition]

£350 or any 'Steam Deck' beating device is selling a lie

[huxley]

Are Asus just doing this to take claim for the most powerful handheld? Either way steam will get game sakes out of it.
I imagine you could instal steam OS on this somehow.

[briareos_kerensky]

No chance, this is going to be £800 min, I'd suspect with a 1TB it'll be hitting £999 - it's ROG branded.

Reading around seems Asus is very well aware the price point is make or break compared to the Deck, maybe they are willing to take the risk and go for lower revenue.

[nonny]

£350 or any 'Steam Deck' beating device is selling a lie

This... Valve can afford to hit the price point and recoup costs via software attachment.

It doesn't matter how powerful these handheld are, if they're twice the price they're out of the running and appealing to a limited customer base.

Honestly I think the only thing that'll beat the Steam Deck is it's next iteration.

[MartyG]

Reading around seems Asus is very well aware the price point is make or break compared to the Deck, maybe they are willing to take the risk and go for lower revenue.

Not unless they want to bleed money on it. It's not like ASUS can supplement the costs by creaming a percentage from Steam sales, or other such software marketplaces. This will be expensive (go look at the price of the GPD Win 4).

[fishbowlhead]

I see Cyberpunk is getting dlss3.0 update. The full rayracing looks insane.

[dataDave]

I see Cyberpunk is getting dlss3.0 update. The full retracing looks insane.

I don’t think DLSS 3 will make it look any better than it does currently, but it should boost frame rates by about 10% thanks to the AI-powered Frame Generation. I believe all this fizz will add at least a couple of frames worth of latency as well, so it’s not all roses.

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.pcgamesn.com/ghostwire-tokyo/update-free-spiders-thread-denuvo-drm

Bethesda adds Denuvo to Ghostwire a year after its launch to coincide with some DLC