AMD has worked closely with Bethesda to optimize Ryzen / Radeon 7000 series CPUs and GPUs for Starfield. Bethesda’s Scott Howard says it has “AMD engineers in our codebase” working on FSR 2 upscaling support for both Xbox and PC. That could mean we won’t see Nvidia’s DLSS 3 in Starfield at launch. Starfield debuts exclusively on Xbox and PC on September 6th.
Microsoft’s Xbox chief, Phil Spencer, compared the Xbox business to Polaroid and its struggles to adapt to digital photography. In a 2019 email Spencer said it was important to have a mobile gaming strategy:
First, we are exactly like Polaroid. We are core gaming which isn’t growing it’s TAM (analogous to film photographers) while mobile gaming MAU is growing WW at a significant rate (like digital photography was growing).
We have the list of witnesses that will testify tomorrow, starting at 8:30AM PT / 11:30AM ET:
• Jim Ryan, Sony (video deposition)
• Jeff Fisher, Nvidia (video deposition)
• Phil Eisler, Nvidia (video deposition)
• Dr. Robin Lee, FTC economic expert
• Dr. Elizabeth Bailey, MS economic expert
• Lori Wright, Xbox (joint stipulation)
Lots of video testimony here and most of it will have been filmed months ago. Stay tuned for all the latest news in the morning.
Emergency services in the UK are experiencing issues today. 999 calls across many parts of the UK aren’t connecting due to a “technical fault.” The outage is affecting London Ambulance Service, Essex Fire Service, West Midlands Police, and many other services. The Metropolitan Police is recommending that the public call 101 in an emergency until further notice.
FTC v. Microsoft day two was all about console wars and whether Xbox is really in a distant third place.
