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Captain_Yuri said:

Yea I posted that earlier, pretty dumb of Dell. Gonna take a few generations of AMD winning for these mainstream companies to come around.

In other news...

New Crypto Currency uses SSDs and Hard Drives to mine instead of GPUs.

"According to the latest HKEPC report, an emerging cryptocurrency, Chia, is mined with storage space and miners in China are buying up hard drives and SSDs at an alarming rate. The mining process of Chia requires a large amount of free space and runs many reading and writing operations. These miners have been purchasing massive amounts of hard drives ranging in capacity from 4TB to 18TB."

https://wccftech.com/hard-drive-and-ssd-shortages-may-occur-in-the-near-future-if-new-cryptocurrency-succeeds/

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No component on PC will be safe

For God's Sake! Do they realize that the NAND in those SSDs degrades with each writing, right? And that it becomes useless and they won't be able to sell them later.

Oh, well, I guess I'll get the storage I was planning to get for my next build sooner rather than later (after all, I'm not after speed).

Captain_Yuri said:

Days Gone Director John Garvin Says Metacritic Score Is Everything to Sony

https://wccftech.com/days-gone-director-john-garvin-says-metacritic-score-is-everything-to-sony/

Personally not a fan of this direction where smaller games from Sony like Gravity Rush that can get moderate sales and score can no longer be a thing. While it wasn't a big franchise, it certainly was the game that made me purchase a Vita at launch.

The biggest problems I have with that strategy is that A) Small studios will no longer be able to learn and grow making small scale or even AA games, they'll be used to remake/remaster older games or as an assist studio. In any case, nothing original will come from them; and B) Big scale games need a lot more development time, and that means less first party games per console cycle.

Just look at Naughty Dog, they developed Uncharted 1, 2 & 3 and The Last of Us for the PS3, but the only original games they did for PS4 were Uncharted 4, Uncharted The Lost Legacy (does it count as a full game?) and The Last of Us 2.

Sony needs smaller games to fill the gap between those AAA games that get all the Metacritic Highscores.