Daniel Pina

[Daniel Pina @PinaJr]

@carygolomb @JezCorden Everything leading up to the PS6 is reminding me of the OG XBone:

- Pushing an ecosystem change (digital) against its audience
- no lending or 2nd hand market
- 1st party titles failing consistently
- expensive hardware
- hubris in general ("play x360 if you have no internet")

[Daniel Pina @PinaJr]

@carygolomb Not just handhelds, though.

We're going through times of immense scarcity and overpricing in gaming PC hardware, so there's more people than usual hodling older hardware and/or less RAM/VRAM while windows just fails at managing HW resources.

[Daniel Pina @PinaJr]

@MeyerRants @mooreslawisdead @Dervichter @RockstarGames @Sony Cartridges. They should just be using cartridges or some form of SD card with some security layer.

Disks are ancient now. They take up a lot of space and they're slow.

Yeah there's NAND shortages now.. but they can't last forever. I hope.

[Daniel Pina @PinaJr]

@SebAaltonen AI hardware providers will be fine, but that's not the bulk of the AI craze.

[Daniel Pina @PinaJr]

@carygolomb That plus overclock. That enormous heatsink with enormous fan are leaving a lot of headroom, especially with the low power APU with iGPU disabled.

[Daniel Pina @PinaJr]

@HighTideZS @carygolomb It's just the product segment of the GPU AMD sold them. It's a RX 7600M.

[Daniel Pina @PinaJr]

@carygolomb @_NIXNE Besides, PC becomes physical the moment you decide to transfer fully usable installation/execution folders into a pen drive.

[Daniel Pina @PinaJr]

I used to buy consoles because they supported physical media.

Then, I'd sometimes buy digital games for those consoles, but only because I already owned the console.

I won't own digital-only consoles, so now I won't buy neither physical nor digital for consoles I don't own.

[Daniel Pina @PinaJr]

@Bosslogic Irony being that you can backup you PC games in any kind of disk or solid state, and they'll just work.

So in a way, PC is actually the most freely physical platform you can own.

[Daniel Pina @PinaJr]

@carygolomb @xMBGx @Sony I've owned Playstations and purchased their games for ~20 years now.
I don't think I'm getting the PS6.

Sony is way too handsy in customers' access to their libraries for me to trust them with all my games. And to be honest, no one should do so, at the moment.

[Daniel Pina @PinaJr]

@carygolomb @XXIV_Concept I guess the root of the problem is the margins that Valve set out to make originally, which they didn't lower even after RAM and storage prices went crazy.

$750 wouldn't have been a good price even in Q2 2024 when all this hardware was already widely available but more recent.

[Daniel Pina @PinaJr]

@carygolomb It shouldn't take too long. You just have to wait for Valve's Q3 sales results.

[Daniel Pina @PinaJr]

@carygolomb If it's not making use of RDNA3/3.5's dual-issue through WMMA, I wouldn't count on this version being significantly more performant.

[Daniel Pina @PinaJr]

@carygolomb Showing >90% theoretical bandwidth is awesome.

[Daniel Pina @PinaJr]

@SebAaltonen @TheAhmadOsman People are talking wonders about Qwen 3.6 27b dense for coding. Fits nicely into the 5090 and Pro 9700.

[Daniel Pina @PinaJr]

@carygolomb Check Frank Azor's reply. False alarm.

[Daniel Pina @PinaJr]

@carygolomb cTDP goes all the way down to 8W. I wonder how it compares to Van Gogh at its 11W sweet spot.

[Daniel Pina @PinaJr]

@carygolomb More like look at the size of those bezels.. It's still 7".

[Daniel Pina @PinaJr]

@LucasSWGirl No option for "casually wait for streaming"?

[Daniel Pina @PinaJr]

@SebAaltonen @philosophymeme0 The dilemma doesn't state how many people get put into the decision maker role.
10 people after you and it's at 16B people, more than the total number of people. What happens then? The game ends and everyone survives? Does it stay at max population until someone presses kill?