Nobody Cares: Gaming Edition

[Essence Lumin]

I just read about that a few hours ago. It looks fun!

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

It does! I think I might pick it up.

 

[NyteWytch]

Knocking stuff off ledges makes for game of the year!

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Microsoft was able due to intensive research to finally speed up the boot time of the Xbox Series X by whopping 5 seconds!

How they did it? They have reduced the bootup animation by 5 seconds...

Microsoft is speeding up Xbox boot times

A speedier boot animation shaves off precious seconds.

www.theverge.com

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Because since a while using GPUs for crypto mining is not being feasable any longer, GPU prices for Nvidia and AMD on the market know only one direction since a few weeks: downwards.

But still the market is not catching on; sales numbers are not increasing. First explanation by Nvidia for that were "operational challenges."

Now Nvidia published preliminary a desastrous (and well deserved...) financial results for the second quarter fiscal. And again: revenue went down even further. Especially gaming revenue went down further than expected, it almost lost half of the revenue within one year.

To quote the report:
"Second quarter revenue is expected to be approximately $6.70 billion, down 19% sequentially and up 3% from the prior year, primarily reflecting weaker than forecasted Gaming revenue. Gaming revenue was $2.04 billion, down 44% sequentially and down 33% from the prior year. Data Center revenue was $3.81 billion, up 1% sequentially and up 61% from the prior year.

The shortfall relative to the May revenue outlook of $8.10 billion was primarily attributable to lower sell-in of Gaming products reflecting a reduction in channel partner sales likely due to macroeconomic headwinds."

Nvidia now blames the weasel term macroeconomic headwinds as main reason for the bad revenue development, and still does not their too high prices.

It's a real bad situation for Nvidia because their warehouses are full of GPUs which they cannot sell, while the next generation line of GPUs is to be expected to be launched in autumn this year. The way Nvidia wants to sell more GPUs: making them cheaper due to rebate.

NVIDIA Announces Preliminary Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2023

NVIDIA today announced selected preliminary financial results for the second quarter ended July 31, 2022.

nvidianews.nvidia.com

NVIDIA announces weaker Q2 gaming GPU sales, now working with channel partners to adjust prices - VideoCardz.com

NVIDIA Q2 revenue misses projections due to weaker GeForce sales, down 44% Q/Q NVIDIA published its preliminary second quarter result showing lower sales than projected. The company revenue from gaming market has decreased by 44% quarter to quarter, which is described by NVIDIA CEO as...

videocardz.com

 

[Ghost Pepper]

Marvel's Midnight Suns Indefinitely Delayed

According to Take-Two, Midnight Suns could still be coming out "later this fiscal year.” In other words, fans of the franchise could have the game at some point before March, 2023. The company however did not give a specific date.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

And they just added Like a Dragon to Playstation Plus. I've enjoyed what little I played.

Also Tiny Tina's Wonderland turns me into a giggling idiot. I wasn't enjoying it early on and stopped playing, I started playing again and within about 15 minutes I found a weapon that turned me into that giggling idiot. It was an SMG that shoots a stream of energy like a Ghostbusters Proton pack, it took down some flying dragons in Brighthoof pretty quickly. And I found an assault rifle with a grenade mode, and the grenades basically blow enemies into the air in silly ways.

 

[Free]

OK, why not?

Def Con hacker shows John Deere’s tractors can run Doom

A hacker brings Doom straight to a John Deere display.

www.theverge.com

 

[Tirellia]

Fifa 23: EA honours 99% discount price error on football game's new edition - BBC News

I thought EA was supposed to be more evil than Google.

 

[Noodles]

Fifa 23: EA honours 99% discount price error on football game's new edition - BBC News

I thought EA was supposed to be more evil than Google.

This isn't the first time they have had something like this and honored it.

I forget the exact details but I remeber years ago they had a glitch with a discount code, I think for $10 off anything, that you could use repeatedly, which meant many free games were got.

Something along those lines.

 

[Caete]

I'll pass.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Caete]

LOL Embracer. They delayed the Saints Row release by a year for "polish" yet still released a turd of a game and lost about 9% of their stock price when the review block was lifted. I'm sure they can fuck up SW:KOTOR just as much as their SR release.

 

[Noodles]

The Saint's Row news is so disappointing because I absolutely loved Saint's Row 3 and 4. My only real complaint was they use the same basic map, so SR4 felt a little like more of the same, though the super powers gimmick of SR 4 did make it feel like an entirely different place.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

The Saint's Row news is so disappointing because I absolutely loved Saint's Row 3 and 4. My only real complaint was they use the same basic map, so SR4 felt a little like more of the same, though the super powers gimmick of SR 4 did make it feel like an entirely different place.

yeah, and they're local to us too, in Champaign-Urbana.

 

[Noodles]

yeah, and they're local to us too, in Champaign-Urbana.

Yeah, every few months CI Living goes to their studio to talk to them.

 

[Caete]

 

[Beebo Brink]

 

[Free]

I can see the exchange now...

4yo: Hey! You died and I still alive!

Free: Yes.

4yo: You suck!

Free: Yup...

 

[Free]

Wordle is apparently trying to break math now. (I've heard the word in Wordle today was especially vexing to players.)