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Early Access to DF Direct Weekly #153 Now Available (Patreon)

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2024-03-09 12:18:30
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Trapped in a plain white room with only two plants for company, an on-location Rich dials into the next DF Direct Weekly for salvation. Joining him this week as John and Alex, discussing the shutdown of the Yuzu and Citra emulators, the latest Sony PC ports from Nixxes, the Xbox partner showcase and hints of machine learning-based upscaling from AMD. Meanwhile, John's beard attracts an extraordinary and possibly unhealthy level of attention.

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DF Direct Weekly #153: Nintendo Kills Yuzu, Horizon 2 PC Specs, Xbox Showcase, Dragon's Dogma 2

Trapped in a plain white room with only two plants for company, an on-location Rich dials into the next DF Direct Weekly for salvation. Joining him this week as John and Alex, discussing the shutdown of the Yuzu and Citra emulators, the latest Sony PC ports from Nixxes, the Xbox partner showcase and hints of machine learning-based upscaling from AMD. Meanwhile, John's beard attracts an extraordinary and possibly unhealthy level of attention. Find DF Direct Weekly as a podcast on your favourite podcast streaming service. Join the DF Supporter Program for pristine video downloads, behind the scenes content, early access to DF Retro, early access to DF Direct Weekly and much, much more: https://bit.ly/3jEGjvx Subscribe for more Digital Foundry: http://bit.ly/DFSubscribe Want some DF-branded tee-shirts, mugs, hoodies and more? Check out our store: https://store.digitalfoundry.net 0:00:00 Introduction 0:01:30 News 01: Nintendo forces Yuzu, Citra shutdown 0:28:16 News 02: Horizon PC specs released, Ghost of Tsushima PC announced 0:39:29 News 03: Xbox partner showcase drops! 0:58:53 News 04: Dragon’s Dogma 2 has unlocked frame-rate on consoles 1:09:03 News 05: Footage emerges from cancelled TimeSplitters game 1:15:30 News 06: AMD teases AI upscaling… but what is it? 1:26:42 Supporter Q1: Should I buy an OLED Steam Deck now, or wait for new portable Windows handhelds? 1:33:56 Supporter Q2: If cost were no issue, what VR headset would be best for PC gaming? 1:37:23 Supporter Q3: How does DLSS quality at 1440p compare to DLSS performance at 4K? 1:42:28 Supporter Q4: Do you think Sony will release their own dedicated gaming handheld? 1:48:20 Supporter Q5: How does John feel about being labeled as a television producer? 1:49:00 Supporter Q6: Did John and Marc get up to any shenanigans in Germany? 1:52:16 Supporter Q7: What’s the longest John has gone without shaving his beard?

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Floats Like a Butterfly, Stings When I Pee

Also, I completely disagree about the ROG Ally vs Steam Deck. The screen on the OLED Deck is phenomenal, and the OS is great, but being able to play Game Pass and GOG games in particular on the Ally is an absolute godsend. Plus, being able to just install VLC and prop it up in bed and watch some rips while out of town is amazing. I might prefer the Deck itself over the Ally as a piece of tech, but I use the Ally vastly more often, and it's not close at all.

Gustavo Felisberto Valente

I would like to respectfully disagree with Alex about the argument on preservation regarding the availability of media through official stores. This was last week’s topic although this comment also applies to this week’s discussion. In no other media we have full availability of entire catalogues of publishers. I’m a math teacher, and during my graduate studies we had to download books that publishers would not reprint. I’m not referring to old classics in public domain, but fairly recent books that were simply out of print because the publisher was pushing others that they feel “supersede” the former titles. Same for movies. Famously, the original Star Wars from 1977 is only available via second-hand laserdisc. The movie Disney make available currently is the “remastered” version of 1997 (with added sound and special effects). Another example from Disney is the movie Song of the South. This is a movie that Disney did not rerelease in American territories in home video. It was only briefly available in Europe before being out of print. I honestly don’t think all owners must make every single media available forever and in all platforms. That would be a nightmare to regulate because an artist (or a creator) may want to make their art being experienced in a specific manner or in a specific moment in time. And what would constitute media to be forever available? Should the math lecture videos I made during the pandemic be available forever? Even though I don’t want those to be available anymore for a multitude of reasons (academic, professional and personal reasons). I don’t want to support or troubleshoot the videos I made years ago, should we force everybody to do the same? Digital platforms and standards change over time. We cannot expect Adobe to support Java or Flash forever just to maintain Newgrounds games and Flash Videos available for the public for all time. However, to add nuance to this conversation, I do believe that, as a society, we should strive and fight to preserve the memory of the media we believe it’s relevant. For example, in Brazil (where I'm from) and in Canada (where I live), every single piece of media published officially in each country has to have a copy available in the national archives. This copy can be requested by scholars, historians, technicians, etc. I constantly borrow games from the Bibliothèque des archives nationale de Québec and this is another reason I will defend physical media forever! It never goes into conversation about physical media the accessibility that people can have to borrow many games from their public library without spending hundreds of money to play all these games. This official archive (via public libraries and national archives) is the collective effort of our media preservation. I’m assuming the Video Game History Foundation is doing the same in the United States. If we want to make preservation equal to availability we would have to collective regulate this via our government representatives. This ties into the brief conversation about iQue in China (the Nintendo port of Mario Galaxy to nvidia shield in China). That only existed because their government representatives did not allow the Nintendo platforms to exist there as they were in other territories. Sure, we can do the same elsewhere in the world. If we regulate all platform holders to open source their operating systems so all platforms are now open gardens, you bet Nintendo would go multi platform (so will Sony) and we would probably kiss PlayStation and Nintendo systems bye bye. As Richard pointed out in another episode, this model only exists because they subsidize the hardware cost for their walled garden software royalties. Now, going back to the consideration of public libraries, national archives and NGOs preserving media… this would even solve the discussion regarding emulation. There wouldn’t need to exist emulators “out there” for the argument of preservation because we would already trust NGOs, public libraries, museums, national archives to keep mantained hardware and dated software to reproduce these experience for the foreseeable future. No matter how much we want emulators to be used “solely” for preservation, we cannot pretend that piracy is not a major driving factor. In poorer country like Brazil, if one cannot afford a Switch but can play its games on a PC for free, they would do it. Heck, I know people in Canada that OWN a Switch and CAN afford Tears of the Kingdom but refused to do so because the game is one download away. Of course my anecdote is not an academic research on the topic, but let's not pretend these people don’t exist and are possibly the majority of the clientele (though no one can prove whether it is or not). I personally first played Pokémon via emulators in my lifetime (just like Alex confessed in the latest DF Direct). And it was not a “service” problem, as Game Boy + cartridge is so much easier to do than setting up NO$GMB on DOS back in 1998. But it was a “price” problem. Game Boy + cartridge offered the best “service” but it was simply “expensive” in Brazil. So I would play for free, of course. I asked a friend to set up the emulator for me 🤷 Music piracy did not reduce because of streaming is a “better service” but because streaming is more “affordable” than discs. I hope you understand and read this knowing that I am engaging in good faith. I hope this comment will not be reduced to “corporation bootlicking”. I know the internet is really inflammatory but I do believe this conversation is not well debated in the enthusiast space.