DLSS and the like is getting so good at that a 720pGPU can be upscaled to 4k graphics. It's only a matter of time before FauxK is the only 4k available, and raw 4k goes the way of the dodo.
Maximum Overjew, his wife's face is 50% nose.
For what purpose? It's the smarter choice to release on PS4 for any dev that likes earning money.
Man, slightly short of PS4 performance really wouldn't cut it for me with a new console anymore, no matter the games.
Alright, i did not take that in consideration. I do not use it when playing on my desktop but i use it in some games when i am on my girlfriend's laptop (has a 3050 in it), most recently in Like a Dragon: IW.
DLSS isn't magic though - rendering at 4K60 even with DLSS set to performance is beyond even the 4060 for some games right now. There's a performance cost to the upscaling as you go up in resolution even if the internal res is only like 720p and it's especially pronounced on systems with constrained VRAM bandwidth (like the Switch 2 seems to be).
I'd be surprised if they were aiming for 4k. 1080 or 1440 would work just fine, imo.
I'm a raw pixel supremacist, but I think Nvidia, and now Sony, are walking into a trap with software that can upscale images. They're using it as a shortcut to get to '8k' affordably, while ignoring the past they're all too quick to leave behind.
I don't believe it's the future because it will be killed the second it threatens high-end hardware sales like SLI did. Until that point, it will run headlong into expensive hardware, like a PS5pro or PS6, and decimate it.
I was too much of a poorfag to own even one good graphics card back when SLI was a thing, didn't know that what let to its downfall was it being too efficient. Always thought it was the other way around, performance gain from a linked card being to little to justify the purchase of an identical, expensive card.
At the time the cards were expensive as we were tipping into the 4k realm, but the idea showed promise and set up the idea that 2-3 cheap cards could be linked to give equal/slightly less power than cards 5x the price. This backed Nvidia into a corner; why buy a new card when you can raid the second-hand market - the revenue of which Nvidia sees none?
I remember barely getting Crysis running by adding another 8600gt to my existing one.
SLI needed work but the idea is proven technology. Linking computers to make more powerful computers is/was the basis for networking computers. It's how botnets do what they do.
Top-tier post, i didn't even know we were close to dipping into 4k back then, at that time all i was using my PC for was playing Diablo 2 and general piracy, i was a pure consolefag apart from that.
SLI's problem was that communication between cards was too latency intensive. You'd see higher average framerates but the 1% lows would become absolutely atrocious, leading games to feel like they were a stuttery mess. There's no real way to fix this other than moving the components closer together, which is what they do on modern GPUs now (multiple smaller processing units separated by an interconnect on the same package). SLI is a dead-end technology and anyone who thinks it was just unfairly dropped is living in a fantasy.
This only works if your workload isn't latency sensitive. Real-time processing is not amenable to distributed systems.
This is what i dimly remember from reading about SLI and its issues back when it was a thing, people complaining in forums how they bought a second card and stuttering becoming a huge problem.
That's what baffles me the most about the PS5 Pro. The only games that need so much power are games that aren't optimized or use lazy tech to make their games "better". Ray tracing doesn't make a game play any better. Alan Wake 2 probably has the most ray tracing in the world and the gameplay is worst than its Xbox 360 counterpart. The biggest game changer they have is the SSD and they're cheaper than HDDs at this point.
We know that they tell people to stop making games for the PS4. That is basic knowledge.
I don't know if that's true. The only way to play Capcom's Marvel Fighting Collection on PS5 is to play the PS4 version meaning PS4 is the default platform games need to aim for to cover the most ground on their platform.
turns out when you remaster a game that didn't need it and make it worse than the already existing game, nobody will want to buy it.
I didn't even want to buy the non-remastered version. It was bundled with the PS4.
I presume they were brave enough to tell Sony that they would skip the Sony platforms entirely if they overplayed their hand. Sony does not have the monopoly they once had.
