Sean Hollister
The Mario vs. Donkey Kong demo just hit Nintendo Switch.
Guess I know what my kids and I are playing tonight! Looks just our speed.
(They sure as heck aren’t playing Sony’s stealth-dropped free Silent Hill.)
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PHYSINT is the working title of Hideo Kojima’s new not-a-Metal-Gear game.
In case you missed the tease at the end of Sony’s State of Play, Kojima revealed he’s got a “next-generation action espionage” game in development — and then the entire livestream ended by zooming out to show the “PHYSINT” logo you see below. We checked, and it’s not trademarked, despite the TM sign you see. Thankfully, we didn’t have to wait long to find out what it means.
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The Asus ROG Ally is getting AMD’s Fluid Motion Frames — the Lenovo Legion Go might too.
The tech works on DX11 and DX12 games and adds fake frames. It is not a silver bullet for low-perf handhelds: it can add so much lag AMD only suggests it for games running 60fps or better.
But this Filterless video shows it’s more nuanced than that. In the right games, you could save considerable battery or add noticeable smoothness. The ROG Ally will get it “as soon as possible”; Lenovo is “looking at how to properly implement” it.
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Ayaneo’s underpowered Steam Deck competitor is now on sale for just $299.
No need to crowdfund — you can just up and buy it right here for its Early Bird price. There’s a lot to like about its design. But it’s unlikely its old Ryzen 5 4500U will even approach a $349 Steam Deck LCD in performance. I tested the very first Ayaneo, which came with that chip, and the Deck beat it soundly.
Also, it will no longer come with any flavor of SteamOS. It’s a Windows machine now.
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Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
PS5 and/or Xbox sales may have just peaked.
Sony shipped 10 million PS5s in just five months last year, and Xbox hardware sales were up 3 percent last quarter. But AMD, whose gaming business provides their chips, is forecasting a “significant double-digit percentage” decline in gaming revenue now that we’re in “the fifth year of what has been a very strong gaming cycle.”
We won’t hear from Sony again till Valentine’s Day, but Microsoft just confirmed: next quarter, Xbox hardware revenue will decline year-over-year.
Microsoft has internally suggested the next gen of consoles might arrive in 2028.
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AMD says its MI300 AI accelerator is “now tracking to be the fastest revenue ramp of any product in our history”.
While that doesn’t quite tell us how well AMD’s competing with Nvidia in the AI gold rush, AMD CEO Lisa Su says she’s not sitting back: “The demand for compute is so high that we are seeing an acceleration of the roadmap generations here.”
She confirmed Zen 5 CPUs are still on track for this year, with server chips in second half. Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, MSI, and “other large PC OEMs” will begin putting Ryzen 8000 notebooks on sale in February.
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The PC slump is over.
Last week’s Intel earnings suggested the tide had turned, and AMD’s Q4 and FY23 agree: PC sales are getting back to where they should be.
It was a crummy year for Ryzen CPUs, losing $46M on 25 percent lower revenue, but things changed last quarter: AMD chips sold 62 percent better YoY for $55M in operating profit. Radeon GPU sales were up too.
Meanwhile, Microsoft saw “PC market unit volumes were at roughly pre-pandemic levels.”
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