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Early Access to DF Direct Weekly #62 Now Available (Patreon)

Published:
2022-05-21 13:00:05
Imported:
2022-07

Content

Is The Last of Us really being remade for PlayStation 5 and if it is, is it really coming out in 2022? Or has the news void drove journos to desperation? Rich, John and Alex discuss this, the controversial PlayStation Plus games line-up - and of course, the big Starfield/Redfall delay. Also: Hitman 3's ray tracing seems to require an RTX 3070 and DLSS for 1440p - just how heavy is this game?

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DF Direct Weekly #62: Last of Us Remake PS5, Hitman 3 RT Is Heavy, Starfield Delayed!

Is The Last of Us really being remade for PlayStation 5 and if it is, is it really coming out in 2022? Or has the news void drove journos to desperation? Rich, John and Alex discuss this, the controversial PlayStation Plus games line-up - and of course, the big Starfield/Redfall delay. Also: Hitman 3's ray tracing seems to require an RTX 3070 and DLSS for 1440p - just how heavy is this game? Join the DF Patreon for EARLY ACCESS to every DF Direct Weekly, pristine video downloads, behind the scenes content and much, much more: https://bit.ly/3jEGjvx Podcast RSS Feed: https://digitalfoundry.podbean.com/ Subscribe for more Digital Foundry: http://bit.ly/DFSubscribe Want some DF-branded t-shirts, mugs, hoodies or sweaters? Check out our store: https://bit.ly/2BqRTt0 00:00:00 Introductions 00:00:59 News 01: PlayStation Plus line-up revealed 00:11:58 News 02: Last of Us Remake set for 2022? 00:19:04 News 03: Starfield/Redfall delayed until 2023 00:24:13 Supporter Q: Is it time for companies to shelve release dates? 00:28:38 News 04: Hitman 3 RT requirements are heavy 00:35:40 News 05: Test Drive Unlimited SC delayed till 2023, no more cross-gen? 00:39:28 News 06: Portal 64 proof of concept emerges 00:44:53 Supporter Q01: How does Balanced Mode in FSR 2.0 fare? 00:50:20 Supporter Q02/03: FSR 2.0 on consoles? 01:00:55 Supporter Q04: Is it likely that tensor cores will be less important on future Nvidia GPUs? 01:04:43 Supporter Q05: Do you think we'll see FSR 2.0 implemented into emulators? 01:07:08 Supporter Q06: Why don't console manufacturers release emulators and allow for legal ways to purchase ROMs? 01:11:14 Supporter Q07: What first party Sony games would you like to see return? 01:15:55 Supporter Q08: How many games have DRS yet still fail to reach their target frame-rate? 01:20:52 Supporter Q09: What videos has surprised you in terms of viewer numbers, good and bad? 01:24:52 Supporter Q10: If you could pick one game, from any console/PC generation, to receive the full Quake 2/Minecraft RTX treatment, which one would you pick?

Comments

d0x360

It would be ridiculous if they released Last of us 2 again. That's something that should wait for ps6 then they can remaster both with a the same kind of visual upgrade halo 1 and 2 got. Imagine the lighting with ray traced global go, RT shadows and reflections. Those games would even benefit from RT 3d audio assuming Sony supports Atmos

Anonymous

one of the elements that made the original The Last of Us so great was the balance between gameplay and story. Joel is in his mid-50s and he's not been kind to his body; slithering around stealthily in the grass doesn't fit. At all. So no, a remake based on what a late teen/early 20s Ellie can do would *not* suit a 50s Joel... or an early teen Ellie just gaining her feet...

Anonymous

The question on emulation of Xbox 360 on Windows PC is an interesting one. I remember Xbox BC team explaining they initially scratched its head (well team members' own heads) in the idea of having Xbox One's 1.75 GHz 8 cores jaguar CPU handling 3.2 GHz Xenon's triple-core, two threads each, of Xbox 360. Still they managed that with some unknown magic. Or I suppose, some hyperV shenanigan. Would that be feasible on Windows using its hyperV module with for example a Ryzen 6 core cpu like a R5 3600 ? Heck, would they be so kind as to release the basic emulator so we could patch "on the fly" our own game on this possible VM ? Anyway. Who is Phil Harrison ?

Mark Smith
>>84301232

Phil Harrison, the man of PlayStation Home and Stadia fame lol.

Mark Smith

When it comes to games, I feel like the current PlayStation is more like Sony Pictures and less like the PlayStation brand that defined a few eras of gaming before the eighth generation rolled around.

digitalfoundry
>>84301232

I did hear that the hyper-threading of the Xbox 360 CPU essentially makes it more like a six-core processor running at 1.6GHz rather than tri-core at 3.2GHz, which would make the virtualisation simpler?

Anonymous
>>84301232

Ah ! I wasn't aware of that. That would make a lot of sense actually. It could also mean that some games might have been running on only three cores on the 360 and that's the reason why they're not BC right now or that they didn't work great at first.

Corbin Lee

Hearing Alex mention the Intel GPUs launching only in PRC makes me wonder if DF has any contacts there to potentially gain access to the units before broad western release? I know it’s maybe a big ask, but also obtaining grey-market goods from China is certainly not unheard of…anyway, if y’all _do_ manage to traverse that morass, you’d certainly have at least one happy patron! 🤓

Corbin Lee

Also unrelated but y’all have gotten so comfortable on camera, I love seeing your personalities shine through! Rich is a sardonic treasure and without this podcast we plebeians would never know.