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I got a pre-order in with Target.

Begun the compression wars have.....

I want this!

And I just got the email from gamestop. I said yes, lets see what happens. Still have my amazon preorder in case.

John at Digital Foundry has a pretty technical deep dive into how Moon Studios brought Ori and the Will of the Wisps to Switch. I think a lot of folks assume that 2D games like this are easy to make and lack the technical prowess of 3D games, so they should be easy to port to a less powerful platform like Switch. This video makes a solid argument that that’s not the case. I wonder if the Series X/S patch will be available at the consoles’ launch. It would be a blast to replay this one.

By the way, if you want a real world example, Warframe’s new update moves the game over to use the Oodle tech.... Yes, the pictures are identical. That’s the point. 15GB shaved off with no discernible hit to texture quality. Now combine that with a blazing fast I/O architecture that can decompress texture data at 8-9Gbps. When developers wrap their heads around optimizing that, they can start to swap in and out high quality assets in-game at will with minimal stress to the GPU. It’s pretty exciting stuff for all platforms, frankly.

So in Sony's corner you have Oodle + Kraken. In MS's corner you have BCPack + Sampler feedback streaming. Check these threads out:

After about 15 tries I won the race on Classic difficulty. I hereby swear that I will never play that damned thing again so long as I’m on this earth.

Flipping the "old" thing got me enough to buy my big pile of 7th Continent, my 7th Citadel pledge (so far anyway...), a big dish of lasagne, popcorn + Alamo popcorn seasoning. I count that as a win. No interest in the new one

I have no idea what any of that means.

I saw this and wondered how many cars I have in mine now. Five hundred eighteen, apparently. I’m the Jay Leno of Forza Horizon 4 at LCVG.

And HeroQuest. And a new Thing game. And a few more that are lower key. Market is way over crowded.

Bought. Nice to know it will be there waiting for me someday.