Sean Hollister

The first global outage this month was on Sunday, March 10th. This one’s on a Thursday, the day Nvidia adds new games; today it’s Alone in the Dark and Dragon’s Dogma 2. GFN has been down at least 50 minutes so far.

Update: At 2:28PM ET, Nvidia posted that “A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.”

ETA Prime and Retro Game Corps are seeing similar. MSI put this one on sale before reviewers could weigh in, which is never a great sign... I’ll keep an open mind as Intel and co ship updates?

The thing’s legit, and I’m kicking myself for not publishing my own pics of it sooner. (Court happens!) Here I am inside the thing, and I like this intentionally goofy one of Valve’s Lawrence Yang.

Also, it now does voice chat: I asked it a sentence in basic spoken Japanese and it knew what I meant. Both features are coming “soon,” says Nvidia’s Kedar Potdar.

That was the going rate for H100 cards on eBay, so it doesn’t sound like they’ll be cheaper. (But maybe he meant you get two? Nvidia is selling them in pairs as the GB200 “Superchip.”)

The delay before each answer is annoying, but InWorld CEO Kylan Gibbs tells me that’s because text-to-speech and other microservices are running in the cloud — future chips with onboard AI coprocessing might run them locally instead.

“Those hoping that PS5 Pro will turn CPU-limited 30fps titles into super-smooth 60fps experiences will be disappointed,” writes Richard Leadbetter — but he thinks PS5 Pro “should be able to deliver a far higher perceptual increase in resolution vs PS5 than the PS4 Pro did against its junior variant.”

Lots more nuance here, including how PS5 Pro has 1.2GB more RAM for games: