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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2024
- One of the biggest - if not the biggest - games of 2023 launched this week. Nintendo's Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has recently a massively positive reaction. John discusses his review and shares more thoughts on the game, while digging more deeply into the eternal question - is it too big for Switch? Meanwhile, Rich drops in from time off to share his impressions with the Asus ROG Ally and A Plague Tale: Requiem gets a 60fps patch... but what does it actually do?
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:04 News 01: Tears of the Kingdom launches!
00:26:05 News 02: Sharp producing next-gen Switch LCD?
00:34:49 News 03: ASUS ROG Ally reviews drop + our impressions
00:50:20 News 04: A Plague Tale: Requiem gets 60fps patch
00:56:36 News 05: John gets a new CRT!
01:02:53 Supporter Q1: With low sales and poor software support, where does the PS VR2 go from here?
01:07:36 Supporter Q2: Could DF revisit some of the recent troubled PC ports and see how they run now after patches?
01:11:23 Supporter Q3: Why does DLSS 3 produce a smoother experience in games with high CPU load?
01:15:47 Supporter Q4: Developers like to blame specific PC configurations for user issues. Could DF emphasize that PC performance issues are often common to all configurations? - Ігри
I know Rich deserves a rest and Oliver has held his own well, but I'm glad to see the Holy Trinity of DF together again.
Hopefully Oliver can find his way out of that GameCube
Offspring woo
Me too!! They all deserve all the time off they want as far I'm concerned. Great team.
Rich literally just had a vacation.
Quite honestly, I really like them all. Simply because they’re all uniquely talented and approach subjects a little differently. From the big man Richard to Will, and Oliver, they’re all essential to the company.
I’d like to see more physics in games. We had a trend of it in the 2000s but a lot of games just ignore physics while concentrating on lighting like Ray tracing. To me, an interactive experience is more fun with physics.
Teardown is both. Fully destructible voxel environments with a fast ray traced renderer that does not require GPUs with hardware acceleration.
Looks a bit noisy at times, but it is really impressive considering you can run it on a 1050. And the gameplay is so much fun.
To me games have regressed in gameplay. Every AAA game these days is an “open world action adventure with some RPG and stealth mechanics”. Back in early 2000s there was so much promise that the new hardware will be used for better AI and more interactivity. What we got instead was just shinier graphics, vast empty/dead maps and gimmicky shit like horse balls shrinking in cold.
The only physics I wish they would stop with is knockdown/ragdoll.
If Link gets knocked over in BotW and TotK it takes FOR-EVEEEER for him to get back up. WTF?! Stop that. Get up already so I can play the game.
(Yes I am *that* impatient)
Not due to Ray Tracing. It's due to the weak ass CPUs in the PS4\Xbone. The Jaguar CPUs in them were made for low-end laptops like chromebooks. The SOCs on them were weak CPUs paired with high end GPU(PS4) or mid range GPU (Xbone). Since graphical fidelity is what most gamers want in new consoles. Sure these consoles can do physics like in Zelda but the graphics would basically look like Zelda but at a higher resolution.
Zelda is brilliant because it's using physics to take the DNA of using stuff to interact with the envrionment to solve problems from a binary state of "have item, unlock solution" from classic Zelda games to a full systemized playground. In Zelda 1 you got a raft item and crossed a river in a straight line to reach a dungeon, in TotK you can build that raft using whatever materials you want, simply build a bridge over the river, a hoverboat, you might use a rocket to fly over it, or just find another way. It's using technology to actually evolve a franchise instead of doing the same thing with better visuals.
But every game just having physics for the sake of it is not something I think would turn out that well, some games don't need to focus on it.
12:00 That face Alex gave, we know he's gonna emulate it in 4k glorry😂
That’s more likely than me assuming Jon was saying “play it whilst high”
Ultrahand sounds like a pretty silly name but it's really an homage to the "Ultrahand" toy that Shigeru Miyamoto's mentor, the inventor of the Game Boy and the father of Metroid, Gunpei Yokoi, made for Nintendo in 1966 that basically started the transition of their business from playing cards into toys and eventually video games.
That’s cool, if it’s true! 👍🏻
yo really?
@@TheCaliforniaHP yep
@@TheJML1975 it’s true
@@noahsabadish3812 love that! I don’t have tears of the kingdom yet, as I’ve only just started playing breath of the wild! But I don’t see why Ultrahand, seems to be a laughing point? But having it as a hark back, to Nintendo’s past is awesome.
MVG already did a video on the overclocking point and found that the bottleneck for performance is almost entirely down to memory bandwidth. Overclocking the CPU and GPU did not help but OCing the memory had the game at almost a locked 30 fps in the heaviest areas even when ULTRAHAND (echo voice effect) is activated. I'll be interested to see if Rich's analysis concurs should that video happen.
It must have ddr3 memory if it can handle this cartoony gfx
@@Name-tn3md The Switch has 4 GB of LPDDR4 @ 1331/1600 MHz depending on if it's docked or undocked.
Is this something you can do with a hacked switch?
@@iDriveAhondaCivic Apparently. Looks like there's some homebrew overlay software that allows you to adjust and monitor clocks/temps etc. in real-time.
@@DataLore19I saw the video! Seems very interesting. I have a launch day switch that sadly collects dust. I need to look into modding that. I was very impressed by that video.
The way John described Zelda with several layers of a hamburger then followed by Rich' facial expression, had me howling 😂😂
That's a tasty looking hamburger!
@@Notsram77 😂
His face goes through so many expressions: Burger (Interested) 3:47 Juicy (Confused) 3:50 Medium rare (Not very pleased, I think he's a "well done" kind of guy) 3:54 Sesame seeds (Now we're talking) 3:57 Singed bottom bun (Not a fan, apparently) 4:06
Hahaha
"Right, okay" 😂
I love hearing John go on a rant like this because it confirms to me that I'm in the right place. Always a comfort to be in the company of like-minded individuals. Keep it up, DF.
Yup, I've noticed John getting more and more fired up over the last two or three months.. almost like his truer self is coming out. I'm all for it - love the honesty and passion that's driving it.
@@elone3997 I'd like to get a clearer picture of what systems he grew up with, because that has an influence on those passions. He seems to have been a PC gamer for a long time, but the console side is less clear.
@@Marcus_K Interesting - I thought he was more a console guy from the original days (ie when it wasn't retro). John seems to know his PC hardware and software too so maybe your right also :) He seems more knowledable than Alex in terms of retro console gaming so I kind of got the impression he'd seen it all first time around, give or take as he's not very old mind you. What do you think - mid thirties? That would mean he was born in 1988 so lots of options!
John's tired of sweating these foos!
Phawx's video explains why the Ally performs worse when plugged.
The power profile the Ally uses tells the device to maximize power on the CPU because it assumes you will use an external GPU.
They have to revise the power profile so has to detect an external gpu being connected before using that setting.
Phawx has been a real leader in this area. Hope his channel grows in tandem with his efforts.
@@GarydeBrown Agreed.
Came here to say this. Phawx knows best. 😁
Johns passionate speeches in appreciation of gaming has really impressed me
Love the unhinged negativity that comes out of John from time to time.
Who is John here? DARK1X?
ToTK is a technical masterpiece for Switch hardware. You can fall from a sky island to Hyrule, directly into a malice hole and arrive in the depths. All in one go, no stutter. This is on 1.6GHz memory bandwith mind you, DDR3 numbers.
That scene awed me more than the PS5 Ratchet demo where he jumps worlds
It's a technical miracle
Naah if you go too fast the game will definitely hold on for a few second to load.
I think part of the reason why we aren't seeing much physics driven gameplay systems in AAA games today is ironically because of the focus on realism. Like even in a game with good physics such as Red Dead Redemption 2 Arthur can't just pull up a giant magnet and start manipulating objects or burn a patch of grass to somehow generate enough uplift to lift him or have the ability to glue objects together to make crazy machines.
Focus on realism can hold back interesting gameplay ideas. A huge advantage for Zelda is that it can go full cartoon physics and add pretty much any crazy idea developers come up with like fusing an eyeball to an arrow to turn it into a guided projectile why not!
Yeah. Gta 4’s rag dolls were more exaggerated but so much more fun and memorable as well.
@@hbala24 Yup another great example. GTA V NPCs have more realistic animations but the euphoria physics/ragdolls are nowhere near as reactive to the environment and not nearly as much fun. RDR 2 did have a good balance in this regard though.
Also GTA IV was accused of having unrealistic by some, and too realistic driving physics by others but the that's kind of irrelevant imo. GTA IV driving was just mechanically deeper, more engaging, and fun.
I thought it was the old gen CPU holding back physics and AI in games. A few years on new gen and we still haven't seen anything special in that regard.
@@Omar-Asim Nah. CPU ain't the limit here even in the previous gen. I miss the large push for physics and AI experimentation early in the PS3s and 360s life cycle.
@@Omar-Asim I mean we have barely seen actual next-gen games but it doesn't even matter as design priorities and mindset are the problem not the hardware. Switch CPU has lower performance than even last gen Jaguar CPUs yet we got Zelda TOTK. Cyberpunk was built for mid to high end PCs first and it has the some of the worst NPC AI in any recent open world game (the police can't even chase you with a car) and quite mid physics.
"Cinematic Sad Dad Games" is a brutal roast of Sony first party games.
I like to call some of them "interactive movies".
As a sad dad they always gets me good though
My take is modern rail shooters.
The Leadbetter Castle finally got revealed at Episode 111 of the DF Direct!
Nice to see Rich broadcasting live from his Penthouse suite!
Rich can't be happier in that thumbnail, he got 4 numbers up in the lotto draw.
He’s just happy to be part of the *one hundred eleventh* DF Direct Weekly
No PC crisis news.
@@bearpuns5910 The only thing better than one hundred and eleven episodes of DF Direct Weekly...is one hundred and twelve episodes of DF Direct Weekly
He won Bingo.
I bet it was the Burger talk 🤣
Thank you John for calling out the nonsense online, you are right that many comments are not only disrespectful to the developers that made the game but gaming in general.
john isn't a saint either, he throws toxicity on twitter and the youtube comments for opinions that don't align with his senses. whether it's videogames, screens, and hardware.
I think we have to remember that a lot of the comments we see online could very well be coming from 13 year olds who lack perspective.
@@overtherenowaitthere Yep, I've seen it! 😂
Loved Rich's visceral and emotional reaction to the Zelda burger. It sounded pretty good to me.
I was chewing on it while I listened and it is indeed a tasty burger
You are weird sir that was cringe af
We need more people like John. You are a legend.
You need more friends.
We need crybabies?
I just bought the Zelda-themed Switch, to start off with the new game. What an introduction to Nintendo and proper handheld gaming after about 20 years after my Gameboy, eh! I just think Nintendo and Handheld quality games should be good for long, long distance travels I soon have.
I hate how Nintendo and Blizzard too never lower the price of their software or do sales. I have stayed away from both of these companies for years now just on principle.
@@NatrajChaturvedi You have to keep in mind that Nintendo’s main business is video games, they can’t really afford to loose money out of what they produce as opposed to Sony and Microsoft which can compensate with their other divisions. Their games need to make money. It’s baffling when they re-release old Wii U games for sure, but when they pour so much work and money in very ambitious games like BOTW or TOTK, the non-decreasing prices are perfectly understandable. In this industry, you also get what you pay for…
Love it when you get the original crew back together! Rich Jon and Alex always do the best DF weekly
I love John speech about reviewing gfx in context of hardware.
I got so much love for a switch, simply because it allowed me to come to gaming while having 3 kids and full time job. There is just no other way for me to finish long games like Witcher 3 or Zelda, same time I am having a blast playing Mario and Kirby with my kids.
Great piece of hardware and great games are still being made !
That burger analogy.
The discussion on the last segment of the video was fantastic. Topical; objective; and frank.
Thank you for providing that great discussion. (The humour was excellent, too. :D)
Awesome video as always, keep up the good work. You are a huge asset to the gaming community, we are lucky to have you guys!
Asobo should just release a Plage Tale Requiem benchmark with an absurd amount of rats and just call it Ratmark.
20:00 "The hardware platform needs to be considered when judging the technical merits of a game." Poetry.
Ehhh this game can run on a phone lol
@@Playerz714 Doubt it.
Pretty low bar for poetry
It's true, but also if something looks bad it looks bad. A lot of Switch footage looks really bad on larger screens, but I assume looks just fine on the device itself.
@@Jossages Most classic video games look terrible on larger screens. Especially games that were designed for standard-definition CRT screens displaying composite or RF video signals. This also applies to old video games with very good art, like the Dragon's Lair's arcade game, Earthworm Jim, and Axelay.
That doesn't mean the art doesn't hold up. It's just not meant to be displayed on a canvas that massive. Like zooming onto an image of the Sistine Chapel that's only 500 pixels high.
Johns rant/truth at the end of the Zelda discussion is so true and valid.
A lot of people are probably trolls looking for attention but there do seem to be legit people that think low of older games. I feel tons of those people probably either got into games in the 2010s and only ever saw the big AAA games, don’t seem to care about what games truly are and what the industry has accomplished.
There's a lot of angry children who were not only not present to watch the medium grow from the 8-bit days onward, they also lack the ability to even try to understand how the limitations of hardware even to the present day push developers to make very specific and difficult decisions in order to achieve their vision.
What I think is important here is that John understands, better than most, that as interesting as "the numbers" are for resolution and framerate, they are not the ONLY thing that matters. You can tell that the people who bitterly screech about Redfail getting dinged for performance (and everything else it does wrong) while whining about "exceptions" being made for Switch titles don't actually understand this at all. They're so caught up about performance that they forget the medium encompasses more than this.
This isn't to say that performance ISN'T important, but context for that performance, and everything else about a given game, is also very important. Look at Jedi Survivor, a game that struggles hard on basically every platform even after patches, has demanding hardware requirements for PC that shut out a lot of players from the best visual quality and performance... and yet people still appear to really have enjoyed their time with that game despite the obvious technical flaws.
Nah ... I do get that Zelda TOTK is a great game. But the "best of the best of all times" according to it's ratings?!? I think it's a bit overhyped as well.
Because there really are games like that with similar elements like Immortals Fenyx Rising. And it offers spoken dialogs, high quality video renderings and a smooth experience on let's say XBox. For me the point is valid that games where criticized on poor performance on XBox One S or Series S (because of console limitations) but a 20 fps game on Switch is not? Not even slightly? The point is: Switch would not have to be so slow. Switch Oled would already been a great opportunity to upgrade the chip as well. We also have Steam Deck. So better hardware is available. But Nintendo chooses not to upgrade while games like Cyberpunk or Witcher 3 are criticized (and lost points) for not holding 60 fps straight.
It seems like Nintendo getting a special treatment while on the other side it seems to be cool to rant about XBox these days
I get John rant about old platforms and games. I really do. But Switch is Nintendos "state of the art" console of the moment! Zelda TOTK is their brand new game! This is far away from Fate of Atlantis on Amiga 500!
When Cyberpunk run poorly on One S and PS4 is was also criticized, the new generation was barely available at that time. So Nintendo should be no different here.
Love you guys and all the people behind the scenes at DF!
Rich kicking back in his chair at his AirBnB. Some great dedication during work on your holiday!
Please benchmark the 1.0 version of TOTK like you said! Very interested in the differences.
"Sad dad games" omg John, that's the best descriptive for the average modern Sony exclusive game I've ever seen.
Seeing Rich's smile ear to ear makes me glad that I decided to watch this video, instead of just listening to it. 😀
Don't worry, grumpy Rich will be back soon
The way he always made a little smirk at Alex saying T-Loop 1 😂 Hope this is a recurring joke and they keep referring to it that way
Glad to see Rich sitting on the Grand Pubah Chair.
I think totk frame rate is memory bound, not gpu or cpu related
Mvg just proved that's exactly the case
That memory bandwidth bottleneck is undefeated.
Would the memory bottleneck be an issue if the game had few polygons and pixels to render? Like, say, Mario Sunshine?
@@tcbvgames idk, but devs have been complaining about the memory issue for a while. Switch 2 can’t come soon enough
@@jay1177 Devs have been complaining about memory since the 1980s.
If devs built their games around Gamecube and PS2 specs, 4 GB of memory wouldn't be an issue.
But obviously, devs want HD visuals, complex geometry, all of the polygonal detail, expensive alpha effects, and all of the trimmings. And that steals most of the memory you need, right off the bat.
I can't think of a single Breath of the Wild fan who thinks the game would be unplayable, if it looked like Twilight Princess. But here we are.
1:17:20 shoutout to Ollie, Alex giving you extra work for the sake of impact :D
The way Alex likes to play switch games is by playing a ripped copy on a PC emulator at 4k 120 fps. No judgement of course 😊 I would as well if i had a rig.
As long as he buys the game.
My pc runs it worse than Switch. However, if we look at how much-improved cemu(wiiu emu) has become because of patreon funding to play botw, both yuzu and ryujin could have a similar boost in performance due to crowd funding.
I'm a PC gamer and already bought the physical game but in return, I'll be playing it on my PC because I can't go back to 30fps
@@hododod246 who cares you can easily buy the game, hold it for months and resell it.
@issac dragon So? Nintendo still got your money. No difference than any 2nd hand resale of game, just like selling it to Gamestop & them selling it as used.
If he emulates it after buying a copy, who cares? Nintendo wouldn't see any more money from it no matter if he was emulating or not after he sold it.
On the Plague Tale 60 FPS update: I've been replaying it in NG+ and I actually haven't noticed the rats animating at half-speed at all. It's difficult to tell, because there are so many of them at once, and they skitter around and blend together so much that it's almost impossible to notice, in my opinion.
I did notice, however, that some NPCs animate at half the refresh rate at a certain distance. The only point I've only really thought about it was in the market area near the beginning when I noticed one of the guys cutting wood was animating a bit weirdly. They come back to full refresh rate as you approach them, though.
I originally played the game in 40 FPS, but I think the game really benefits from the increased frame rate, even if it isn't a fast-paced action game. It just feels nicer to play, and for those action moments when you do need to get away from an enemy, the reduced input lag feels very nice. Overall, I think the cutbacks they made to get the game to run at a higher FPS are very worthwhile and well done. It's hard to notice them most of the time unless you are specifically looking for them.
Also, bonus, the game runs at an unlocked frame rate on 120 hz/VRR displays, and it pushes into the 80-90 FPS area almost all the time on the PS5, which is insane. Even when the rats are on screen.
Shame it looks like a switch game in this mode.
@@evostu7814 I'd love to see a Switch game that runs at 1080p@90+ FPS and renders thousands and thousands of rats at once.
30fps is absolutely fine for this game
@@environm3ntalist549 30 FPS is fine, but 90 FPS is fucking great.
@@eruannsterstill, I prefer the enhanced graphics at 30fps
Love your ramblings, John.
111th DF episode! Keep going guys love y'all content!
I had no clue about the 60fps update for A Plague Tale: Requiem. Thanks for the knowledge!
Number 111th episode, an unprecedented number. All ones, one right after the other.
00:00:30, Alex’s Lorde impression. 😂
No one ever mentions it, but isn't that first TotK trailer also running at 60 fps?
John’s rant was amazing!! 👏🏼
Watch Rich's face turn when John says juicy 😂
I'm jealous of John's new B&O crt. It's gorgeous!
modern vintage tested totk overclock and found memory overclock is all that was needed to get stable 30fps. cpu and gpu good at stock.
USB C on Turing was VirtualLink. Was there expressly for the purpose of VR headsets. Valve attempted making an adapter for the Index to use VirtualLink but the standard was just kinda bad and they couldn't get it stable. In the end, nobody used it and the port was dropped.
Lol cinematic sad dad games killed me
I was laughing at john's misadventure with his CRT...remind me of mine 5 years ago when I get a 80 kilos sony trinitron from 94, what a beast to transport, with no really safe gripping zone and all the weight concentrate on the 70 centimeter screen....what a pain I'll never forget, and all my congrats to you John 👍💪
Thanks for getting Alex a good microphone.
1:17:19 - Hit 'em with it raw, Alex! 👍
Bless John for explaining in hamburgers as a measuring unit that us in the American audience can appreciate and understand.
Alex finally letting it all out and calling out BS! Needs more publications simply saying BS on crap products!
Great video, excellent insights, opinions, and comments as always. I agree with everything you guys say. I wonder how much stutter on new games can be mitigated if DRM was removed as in certain older releases and how much DRM is affecting performance. Game performance seemed to have benefited greatly when DRM and antipiracy solutions have been removed as with many older GOG releases.
Haha I love the Zelda TOTK Hamburger analogy.
THANKS Alex for presenting Red Faction : Guerrilla for being as much as innovative gameplay wise as Far Cry 2 or Crisis..
It doesn't often get the recognition it deserves.
Yes! Until a person plays it, they truly have no idea how innovative the destruction was. I figured that would be the future of gameplay, but no one has tried anything on that scale since! Even Battlefield has severely downgraded its destruction capabilities.
@@zachstraw8832 Sadly no company feels the need to because people keep buying these movie games Sony farts out... they barely feel like video games to me.
@@CasepbX so well said omg
@@CasepbXaka interactive movies 😅
@@zachstraw8832 --- Exactly!
25:02-26:02 John this is exactly how I feel and no one else could have put that better than you could have. Thank you 🙏
Keep up the amazing content DF ❤
My guess is that they showed off the original trailer using footage captured on a "Switch 2" that will be announced next year. Also some people prefer mini LED or LCD because of the PWM issues.
I can't believe John has to explain the context of judging games based on the capabilities of the hardware they're running on. WTF?
Works of art in other media aren't judged that way, so why should video games?. The subpar Switch hardware is a problem of Nintendo's own making.
@@Marcus_K I don't judge movies from 100 years ago the same way I would judge a movie now. I wouldn't judge a mix from 50 years ago the same way as a modern recording. I wouldn't judge a first graders painting the same way as someone with a Masters degree. Context exists. I use it.
@@Marcus_Kthey are judged that way though.
@@TwinOpinion The Switch isn't 50 years old. The Switch is a contemporary system and its games should be held to 2023 standards by reviewers. It really is that simple.
@@Marcus_K It's budget, low power, hand held hardware from almost 8 years ago (the hardware was already 2 years old when the switch was released). I'm not going to directly compare it to my gaming PC. I guess we're gonna have to agree that we have different standard by which we judge games.
Rich appears to be at my Dentist's waiting room 😉
Most Type-c ports can output video, but it would take a custom firmware on the headset at the minimum to get it working.
Another B&O CRT to recommend for the *space conscious* would be the B&O MX 1500. It's a smaller model which can easily be stowed away but with the usual B&O Quality.
I’m sure it’s well known but just in case, the name Ultrahand is a nod to Nintendo’s past. It’s honestly spot on.
TOTK is an absolutely amazing game. I have a PS5 + PSVR2 and this game is able to keep me off for a while because it’s so well made. The physics and just the amount of fun is great!
But… But!! I do have a constant thought of what it would be like, if this game would’ve run on modern hardware in 4K 30/60 fps. It in my opinion deserves more powerful hardware.
As for Nintendo: I love the company… all my life. But i think it’s criminal even, that the switch still costs €320.-… you cant justify that. The hardware is soooooo old. This discussion would be different if the switch retailed for €130.- by now.
Frame Gen mod for Jedi Survivor is from Pure Dark.
Obviously it is only for 4000 series GPUs atm, but DLSS2 is expected to be added to it quite soon.
Aliasing (as an example) is aliasing no matter what hardware platform it's on, I assume it's not really a problem for Switch in handheld mode though?
Still wish the framerate was a little better in TOTK
I just want some damn anti aliasing
You always do a great job but i was a bit dissapointed about the answers regarding the PS VR2.
Both Apple and Meta will releaese their VR headsets later this year so it's reasonable to believe that Sony are saving some "gun powder" for those releases.
Sony are in a really good position right now in the VR market. There is practically no competition at all so it's not like Sony are in a rush to release more triple A vr games than the three big games they already have released after only 2-3 months.
Next up will be Resident Evil 4 and Firewall Ultra which both likely will release this year, then Sony will have released 5x high budget next generation VR games in under a year
And how are those sales going, despite no competition?
Listed bud, I want VR to succeed as much as any enthusiast, but this one was a flop, released into a shrinking market in a recession, a bit too expensive to have mass appeal, a bit too cheap to be profitable, and big lack of proper games for it. Alex is right, PC compatibility would've made so much sense bc they overestimated how invested the average PS5 user is in VR.
@@MinosML There are no official sales numbers released for PS VR2, i'm guessing you have probably only heard about those sales numbers from that one journalist at Bloomberg?
The funny thing here is, even if those sales numbers he wrote were correct, those numbers would actually be really good sales numbers and much better sales numbers than the original PS VR which is to this day the best selling wired VR headset of all times and considered a success by Sony.
Btw how can you call the PS VR2 a flop when it has just released only a few months ago? And only about a week ago it got released at the retail stores for the first time in the U.S and in many other countries in the world were you previously had to buy the PS VR2 online.
The marketing push for the PS VR2 is only just getting started.
You think it's by coincidence that Sony Pictures released the new trailer for the upcoming blockbuster movie "Gran Turismo" a couple weeks ago and then a few days later Sony Playstation released a brand new trailer with Bella Ramsey playing GT7 on the PS VR2?
Sony has huge plans for VR moving forward this generation and into the next decade. The PS5 is seamlessly built for VR in mind, the sense technology and the adaptive triggers were all developed for VR in mind to begin with before this tech even found it's way to becoming the Dualsense controllers releasing with the PS5, same thing can be said about the Tempest 3D audio engine, it was developed spesifically for the original PS VR and then further enhanced on the PS5 in preparation for the PS VR2.
About the market size of the VR industry. As of 2023 the VR gaming industry has a market size of $12.13 billion.
The global VR market is projected to reach $26.9 billion by 2027.
There are 65.9 million VR users in the U.S., which is 15% of the country’s population.
There are over 171 million VR users worldwide.
All arrows are pointing upwards, VR will likely enter the mainstream consumer market within the next decade, Sony knows this very well and that's why they are investing so heavely into VR
Humanity, which is a Day One game in PS Plus Extra is launched today, with PS VR2 support. Perhaps worth to try!
These feed my soul every week. My god I love you all.
Great job Oliver, I wouldn’t have had any inclination of issues with Rich’s audio if not for his post. 👍
Oliver is such a cool addition to DF ❤❤❤
I absolutely loved John's rant. Nothing but pure passion and knowledge. There's a reason he's probably my favourite person on UA-cam for gaming content.
I look at a switch as I do the Toyota Prius. Great little car/device, I just need more than it can provide.
That B&O Beovision TV is an awesome screen. I’ve got one :) though it’s about 30 years old and dying now :(
I have a launch Switch. Rich's comments about newer models having better RAM makes me wonder if it'll perform worse for me.
Launch Switch user here. You have absolutely nothing to worry about.
There are still dips when going in to Ultrahand and occassionally when rapidly transitioning to the "other area" but I generally don't notice. I'm having a blast with it so far.
If I made my own personal list. 20:00 this is the reason I would say mario 64 is probably the best game ever made you have to consider when the game came out and what it did at the time
First really good 3D action game
MVG did a test showing FPS drops in TotK were from mainly memory bandwidth limitations
the release was smooth…and thats why i can live with it, if a game is temp exclusive so devs have more time to polish
Thanks again guys for an awesome video to go with my afternoon coffee. I especially want to thank you all for trying to bring the stuttering issues on PC to light. It is incredibly frustrating and I feel exactly like Alex. Just an idea, but maybe collaborating or reaching out to other medium sized or big tech tubers may be an avenue to consider in bringing this to the forefront. I don't mean your Jayz2cents and Linus etc, they are disingenuous because they produce so many videos but never mention it, even when I can see it happening in the game on their own videos! You guys genuinely are awesome and my favourite channel by a mile.
How was your coffee
@Andy Pandy Just a Tesco gold roast so nothing incredible, but I enjoyed it nonetheless, cheers 🙂
@@djpquickplays1244 nice
I wonder if the Switch 2 is coming out holiday 2024 would they still be using the Ampere chip?
Using 4.5yr old tech seems strange even for Nintendo especially considering theres more competition in the handheld space than there was at the Switches launch.
They don't want to take risks this gen and releasing a new pricey Switch that get washed by the Steam deck & even smartphones seems like a big risk, especially as the Ampere chip doesn't seem a gigantic upgrade over the OG Switch, so if they can't sell the new device on power what else would they sell it on?
I wonder if this whole Dev-Kits appearing then disappearing thing has todo with a change in chip, considering the improvements in speed & most crucially battery life launching such outdated tech in 2024/25 just doesn't make sense even for a slight cost saving.
We'd love some patch update videos, compilation or otherwise. I'd also love to see some indie game content! Alex mentioned getting a lot out of that arena recently
The fact that even other /handhelds/ can emulate ToTK running on an official Nintendo handheld on day 1 and not only that, but be clearer and higher performance while doing it lol
Rich looking great 👍
TOTK few hours into my first run, WOW what a fun and good game!
New 'powers' are _amazing,_ wondered how they would replace the Runes in BOTW.
The BotW runes were too specific and niche in use, like the bomb was easily replaced with the bomb flower material in TOTK, and it's just one of hundreds of materials that can be manipulated in the sandbox. Same for the magnet only working for metal items, now ultrahand works with everything that moves.
It's so god damn good. I never felt like BotW was a 10/10 game and thought it lacked substance when you got past the great sandbox (no caves, no underground, a ton of copy pasted shrines, not enough story...), but with TotK I find it hard to score it anything less, it blows the predecessor out of the water.
@@steel5897 Yeah I fully agree. This seems like the game I wanted BoTW to be. I loved the idea of a physics sandbox where you could create cheesy, game breaking solutions. But I never felt that the runes gave enough freedom, and the most creative you could get was rolling a boulder down the hill. About six hours in and I'm staggered by this fully realized game. So good.
“As long as the force ghost of Miyamoto doesn’t stop us”
27:28 classic John voice break 😂
Regrds to Q4, plenty of PC gamers seem to also take the devs side and gaslight themselves and other PC players claiming games like Elden ring, Dead Space, Hogwarts, Jedi Survivor, Redfall etc etc all "run fine" on their system when in fact it doesn't they just fail to realise they don't perceive these stutters or problems like massive under-utilisation.
Like claiming Elden Ring is a masterpiece when it clearly isn't if it has performance issues. How can something be a "master piece" if it is technically flawed.
@@Not_Lewis Yup agree. Souls is my favourite series but every single game has large technical failings. Design wise their incredible, as a package its lacking due to technical issues
THE TRIUMVIRATE IS BACK 👊🏼👊🏼
I remember a few laptops were not getting the fastest performance when in Performance mode - it had something to do with allocating too much power to the CPU side of things - and the GPU became starved of power.
Yeah, The Phawx discovered the same weird power performance issue with the Asus
John is right on the money about back compat. If the Switch 2 (or whatever it's called) drops the ball here, it will have a rough time getting off the ground. I, for one, will not buy it anywhere near its launch date, if I can't just swap it with my current Switch, and keep playing all the games I've already bought (hopefully with technical enhancements). I would wait until it builds up its own compelling game library, if it ever achieves the critical mass to get there.
I'm 50/50 on whether it'll have BC, but I think there's close to a 0% chance they offer enchantments.
When Nintendo is in the lead & doing well, they get complacent & offer as few consumer-friendly features, prices & policies as possible.
It's why Wii U & even 3DS had way more robust features & options for their UI's & home menus, and why Switch still doesn't even have a single basic messaging system or any social features at all (or just Black/White themes since launch).
No need to add extra things or put in effort when it sells so well as-is.
A non backward compatible next-gen Nintendo console will have me wait a few years before considering getting it. It will also have me think hard about buying any more games for the Switch as I'll know they'll be tied to an unsupported platform from that moment on.
Backward compatibility is a win-win for platform holders / customers.
I don't think switch 2 will be back compatible.
I don't think it's an huge issue either since we then get a new switch 2 game liberty and u still get to keep the old switch instead of getting rid of it
@Andre you could literally say that about every system... "you get a new PS5 library and can just keep your old PS4!" Or "you get a new Series X library & can keep your old Xbox!"
Yet here we are, and they both have backwards compatibility. People don't want to be locked to old hardware that can't carry forward their library
@@corey2232 And look how that has made a 3 year crossgen period as a result. I rather just have a new system with new games ,a new generation starting day one.
Its also more beneficial for nintendo since they can just release popular switch games as 60fps remasters for the switch 2 and people will gobble that shit up like crazy.
Nintendo has an hdr movie before a game. That's just crazy to me.
Switch consoles came out in 2017 before HDR was even popular, and they'd be using the shitty, older versions of HDR if they had
21:53 "Its insulting to the GameBoy" 😂😂😂 what a sentence and an amazingly funny rant that followed
love rich's new background !
Haha, I totally get you on the hardware stuff. Respect the history and judge each system of its own capabilities. I'm playing tears of the kingdom at the moment and it's got it's hooks in, I love it. I'm also helping my son play through Luigi Mansion 2 on the 3DS. I honestly can look at LM2 and think it looks beautiful on 3DS. I just love gaming!!
I cannot support this argument. Especially when "mid gen refresh" systems exist. Then where do we draw the line? At the base Xbox One VCR? The One X? I mean they play the same games, but games with One X enhancements run extremely poorly on the VCR, but that's the system they're intended for, right? Hell, even a ton of One X games run even better on the Series X (which for all intents and purposes is an Xbox One X with an SSD, let's be real here). The same can be said of the base PS4, PS4 Pro, and PS5... So I ask again, where do you draw the line? Nintendo is getting a pass because they're Nintendo. I'm sorry, even though I like the TotK game, its flaws are unacceptable. Sure they crammed this game on to a system with outdated tech even at release, but it does not run well. Instead of saying something moronic like we should play games on the systems they were made for (cause I'll tell you right now GoW ran infinitely better on my PS5 and I'd have killed myself trying to play that on a base PS4), how about we hold Nintendo accountable and call them out? That their unwillingness to change with the times and create a much more powerful system to run their games on shouldn't be tolerated anymore.
@@danbooke2001 Naa, I'm still with John. But thanks for the reply
@@danbooke2001 - Great post. I think a fairer comparison is cost between devices.
When a Switch costs as much or nearly as much as a Playstation 5 digital version or a base level Steam Deck then it's hard to ignore the technical shortcomings of the Switch imo.
Speaking of framerate and resolution, I do feel like people are (especially in the console space) obsessed with numbers now. Sadly the PS5 and Xbox Series were heavily advertised as "4k 60fps" systems and people are focused on that.
I could be wrong but I don't think the resolution or framerate were that much of a concern for the players during the Xbox One / PS4 time.
It's a shame cause there is so much more into games than just these numbers. Of course they are important and you want the system you've paid for to perform the way you expect, but people need to be realistic as well.
Anyway, my English won't allow me to fully express how I feel about this topic but I'm glad people from DF are still able to say "Yeah, you can enjoy a game at 30fps, it's fine and you won't die".
Spot on! Understood you very well and I think it comes down to what John said, people obsessed by numbers are mostly basement dwelling immature incels who don’t even play videogames, just crunch numbers.
Frame rate wasn't a concern in the PS4/Xbox one era because the CPUs couldn't run at 60fps and to be frank, console players didn't know better. PC players who had access to higher framerates were banging the 60fps drum for a reason. Now that PS5 and series X had a taste of fully locked 60, they wont let go of it similar to how PC players won't. 30fps is certainly playable, but calling the difference between 30 and 60 "a number" is disingenuous.
I liked John's rant this time! :)
The reason companies say “a small percentage of users are affected…” or such is because of legal reasons. They don’t want to invite class action lawsuits in the US, basically.
Lying about an issue can also invite legal issues though. You also don't need a majority of users having a problem for a class action lawsuit to be made.