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1) Keep in mind that most games are designed 1st for console, so their CPU demands will be scaled around the CPUs in SeX/PS5 for the foreseeable future 2) % improvement is close to irrelevant in the real world in many cases. Once you hit a certain frame rate, the frame rate improvement is largely irrelevant 3) If you are looking to future proof, look at the recently released games only with your target framerate and resolution. Decide what kind of buffer you are looking for. Many of the "benefits" that are in the averages are in older titles that are realized in framerates that most monitors aren't capable of displaying (and if they could, you probably wouldn't be able to notice anyways) 4) I wouldn't buy a CPU with less than 8 cores. Game engines are likely to better support more cores going forward. If you watch the youtuber benchmarking videos they are really disconnected from real-world benefits to users. However, the Youtuber "build" videos always recommend very modest CPUs.

The sweet spot on GPUs (in terms of longevity vs. cost) for gaming, IMHO, is somewhere in the $400 range. If you care about playing multiplayer e-sports shooters at 200 fps, getting a more powerful CPU helps with that. Most of the CPU benchmarks focus on situations that most "real-world" gamers won't care about. Unless of course, you can tell the difference between 210 fps and 225 fps.

Absolutely. According to DF, the fidelity mode has increased scene density (crowds, spaceships in backgrounds, etc.) and more strands of hair used on things like Lombax fur vs. the other two modes.

The RT on PC has shadows and ambient occlusion which weren't on the PS5.

I certainly hope so -- looking forward to finding out next week!

I believe it would be "High", but I'm sure there will be a more concrete answer in about a week.

I stopped buying consoles and decided to be PC only -- my kids (and their friends) are now PC only as well.

Yes. It shouldn't really be that surprising. If you want "Ultimate Ray Tracing", you're probably gonna need DLSS 3.

You're forgetting the Youtubers who post lots of performance benchmark videos, who are trying to justify excluding DLSS from their analysis.

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I never had AC fatigue.

The original Assassin's Creed was a very basic game -- with very limited narrative components, a rinse and repeat assassination gameplay loop (my recollection is there were nine assassinations that were almost identical). Syndicate was the last iteration of the formula with a detailed narrative, a broad selection of main and side missions. My recollection was that the games assassinations (much like Unity) gave you a number of different ways to complete them. I would anticipate that they are going to start from this gameplay/narrative structure, rather than going back to the original AC game and iterating from there.

If it is really $500, it better damn well come with haptic underwear for the romance side quests.

Steam Deck sounds like it already meets the requirements.

That reads like an article from someone who failed middle-school science.

Wasn’t he just the manager of their community engagement team?

Industry consolidation is usually only beneficial to the big players in the industry. And virtually never for the end consumer.

In Canada, it is illegal for any restaurant with a liquor license not to provide free tap water.

I'm still waiting for gen 4 drives to show a meaningful real world improvement in gaming over gen 3 drives, let alone being worried that I need a gen 5 drive ATM. That said, I'm leaving my 5.0 PCIe m.2 slot open in eager anticipation that it may be useful for something.

Add in DLSS 3 support, I am very optimistic. That's exactly my thinking.

If you are OK with extremely low def textures and low poly models, and the occasional hitching while waiting for something to load [including lots of texture/environment pop-in]- it's perfectly doable.

The internet is going crazy over the fact that Sony "lied" about the PS5 SSD making this game possible because of these specs. Perhaps we should see how this game plays/looks on "low" settings before people get too excited?

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They still want their revenue from the UK. Why give it up?