The price chart that Nvidia doesn't want to see.

I wonder what major PSU companies like Seasonic and Silverstonetek have to say this new pcie 5.0 connector for top class RTX 4000 series cards.

They'll probably be happy. That means more PSUs sold.

Steam just got an overhaul to the stats leaderboards and I'm not sure I like it lol

Here's the full rundown of the changes

Official Steam News - Steam News Hub (steampowered.com)

Looking at DLSS 3 frame generation, there is the question if these dlss-generated frames are predicted and displayed before a new frame is traditionally rendered (actual frame prediction) or if a new frame has to be rendered first and the dlss-generated frame is interpolated between two existing frames (that would imply an additional lag of 1/2 frame time bc the rendered frame has to be delayed). Experts are arguing how that frame generation is really working but this slide implies an actual frame prediction with no added lag.

Wouldn't surprise me at all.

Whenever AMD goes out of their way to greatly benefit gamers price wise with their graphics cards, all it takes is for Nvidia to half ass fake apologize for one gen and everybody runs back to them for the next few gens or more.

If I were AMD, unless I had an unlimited supply of non stop silicon available, which they don't, I'd just keep doing what they're doing with Radeon. Offer a competitive product and charge slightly less while making bank on however much they were able to sell.

Well, AIB's have much more negotiating power with AMD than they have with NVidia, so AMD needs to give them a higher share to keep them happy. The question is here how much this negates the cost cutting measures that AMD did with the 7xxx GPUs, but I guess there's still some wiggle room left. I expect the new GPUs to release with prices comparable to the 6x50 releases, which would still undercut NVidia  by quite some margin.

Just Tuesday I was on Mindfactory and found the 6700XT for 440€ (bit more expensive now at 465€), and the 6700 non-XT for 400€. Considering the 6600XT/6650XT (which is actually cheaper than the 6600XT now) is only 30€ cheaper than the 6700 non-XT, I consider that one a better buy right now.

I like it the new graphics will take a bit of getting used to but there is much more information on it and the old current players chart is basically there by clicking most popular and it has some additional info on it.

The new Top sellers including all a games revenue and tracking f2p games is a good move as units sold becomes less and less relevant as the only factor determining a games success and having a tab to swap between Global and different countries rather than changing the url is a nice QoL :)

And now, the Friday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

Cyberpunk 2077 is now pulling in more than 1 million players per day
https://www.pcgamer.com/cyberpunk-2077-is-now-pulling-in-more-than-1-million-players-per-day/
Nearly two years after its troubled release, Cyberpunk 2077 may finally be hitting its stride: CD Projekt said that the game has drawn in more than a million players, "new and returning," every day this week.
"Each day of this week Night City has been visited by 1 million players, both new and returning," the Cyberpunk 2077 Twitter account revealed. "We wanted to use this opportunity to thank you for being with us and playing the game. Thanks, Chooms!"
>> So, how many come because of the anime and how many from the Nvidia news?

Fanatical has a new Star Deal: Intravenous, with a 62% discount during 48 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/intravenous.

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GAMING NEWS

Here are the PC graphics settings for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Multiplayer
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/here-are-the-pc-graphics-settings-for-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2-multiplayer/
The PC multiplayer beta phase for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is currently under way, and below you can find its PC graphics settings. And, from what we can see, this new COD game will support both NVIDIA’s DLSS and AMD’s FSR 1.0 upscaling techs.

SCORN will be the first PC game to support DirectStorage
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/scorn-will-be-the-first-pc-game-to-support-directstorage/
The H.R. Giger-inspired first-person game, SCORN, will release next month and according to Ebb Software, it will support DirectStorage on PC.
When asked about DirectStorage support, the developers responded and confirmed that it will be supported on both Xbox and PC.