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Hi everyone, it's Rich here, armed with all of the information gleaned from this week's #content meeting. Lots going on, plus we had the chance to discuss how we're going to tackle the Xbox 'E3' event on Sunday - we likely will produce a DF Direct Special for that (otherwise we'd be waiting a week for content to go live publicly, which wouldn't be a great idea). We'll also be picking out specific games like Starfield for longer individual videos. 

But the show doesn't start until Sunday, meaning there's a week of work to wade through first.

* Rich (ie me) is polishing up benchmarks of almost the entire range of available budget '1080p' GPUs, from RX 6600 to RTX 4060 Ti. This includes the new RX 7600 which is profoundly uninteresting, but it also includes Intel Arc A750/A770 - both of which are very interesting. I'm weighing up two videos (7600 review, Intel revisit) or just concentrating on the Intel cards with a 7600 insert or two. Thoughts?

* Tom is working on Street Fighter 6 on consoles! We spent some time this morning on discussing new angles beyond the demo coverage we've already done, as most of the aspects seen in that video haven't changed.

* Oliver is working on Diablo 4 on consoles and should have worked on that wrapped up pretty quickly. Beyond that, there are a number of options - possibly a last-gen Diablo 4 video, possibly No Man's Sky on Mac (with bonus PSVR2 #content) and possibly a Forspoken PS5 revisit as that has dramatically improved.

* Alex is finishing up a video looking at PC titles some way off from their launches. He's revisiting the likes of Returnal, Dead Space, Forspoken and The Callisto Protocol to see to what extent, if any, these games have improved since we initially looked at them. Or didn't, in the case of Callisto on PC. Beyond that? Street Fighter 6 on PC.

* Don (yes!) returns for our PC analysis of Diablo 4!

* John is working on embargoed content, but is also producing written reviews of the Viture One XR glasses and the Innocn 48Q1V OLED monitor - fans of 48-inch OLED TVs looking for a more PC-orientated monitor based on the same tech may like this one!

* Will has the day off today, but is still working on the Ryzen 4800S (ie Xbox Series X) CPU review - and has been helping out in general more recently with adapting video content for Eurogamer articles, something we both handle but don't often discuss!

As usual, do let us know of anything you think we should be covering, or think we should know about but in the meantime, I hope you have a great week!

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Anonymous

On SF6, I would be very curious to know more about loading times, latency and that story "Dolby Vision on Xbox" (you must be fed up that I ask for it lol). On the 48Q1V, I'm curious to know John's feeling about that size. I think I've only heard Rich and Alex talking about it. I myself am about to buy an LG oled specifically for editing from my Macbook Pro and I still can't believe 48" isn't too big. 42" seems far better (and already big). There's another topic I'm getting more and more interested in recently as I just bought a Macbook Pro M2 Max: those softwares that make PC games compatible with Mac, especially Crossover. Their compatibility seems to improve every week (recently with Direct X12). Is it becoming a viable solution for gaming on mac? What's performance cost, what's the input like, etcetera. (Andrew Tsai' youtube channel covers those news pretty well. But he's no DigitalFoundry of course haha. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ-hl32h5CokBhlGu95C1Xg)

Anonymous

Very curious about the update port report from Alex, but especially excited for Don's second DF-video with no doubt it will be as good as your first one. Also, a high-profile title (higher than DI2 at least), so hopefully it will also get significant higher views :) Excited for when you might make your first appearance at the DF-weekly :)

Anonymous

Would love to see a No Man’s Sky Mac video from Oliver. That port seems to be the first offering more MetalFX upscaling modes than just quality and performance modes, so could be interesting to dig into.

Anonymous

Creating a separate video just on a “profoundly uninteresting” card seems like a waste of effort, so I vote for an Intel video with 7600-related asides.

Anonymous

I'm with Tim on this one. Lots of 7600 reviews out there. Definitely feels like its a better use of time to do one video with the 7600 in the benchmarks for comparison.

Anonymous

It's been 2.5 years since the launch of this gen of consoles. Maybe a revisit to what the same $500 of the cost of the consoles gets in building a PC now? Can use both RX7600 and A750/770 SKUs in the analysis.

Anonymous

Since Street Fighter 6 video will be closer to launch I assume, I was wondering if the team will take a look at Amnesia The Bunker, Frictional Games has been using an in-house engine for years, and I would love a tech-review about their latest iteration of the engine.

Anonymous

Topic for DF direct, but the system requirements for Silent Hill 2 remake list a RX6800XT or 2080 as recommended specs, with a dizzying high of 60fps on medium and an esports-ready 30fps on high. Calling it now: it's going to be Gollum bad on launch.

Anonymous

Good point on that, but the minimum requirements also call for a 1080 or a 5700xt, which would imply that the minimum to make it run is also unexpectedly high, which is worrying, given that Lumen and Nanite should be something the user can toggle and greatly reduce GPU stress. With the more optimistic look there, it would be nice if it turned out that the requirements are just that high because this is the new FEAR, but in that case, we might be looking at a really challenging console port. I guess on balance, the recent trend with TLOUP1, Forspoken, Callisto and Redfall has conditioned me to be wary of unexpectedly high system reqs, but either way, either the consoles or the PC are going to have a rough time running this.

Anonymous

Note the recommended specs also state that a 6800XT or 2080 + High settings = 1080 x 30Hz. Hmm... 1920 x 1080 @ 30Hz in 2023? What is this, 2009? Without further details, something in that equation doesn't add up to me.