Broken Silicon 261: Nintendo Switch 2 Performance, PS5 Pro, AMD Zen 5 | Spirit of the North 2 Devs (Patreon)

The Creators of Spirit of the North 2 join to discuss next gen consoles and game development!

0:00 Founding Infuse Studio

8:56 How Game Development has changed over the past decade

12:47 Game Developer Layoffs

26:14 Has AAA Development become bloated?

32:58 Scaling Studios with Success & Game Design

47:41 PC Minimum Requirements - How are they Decided?

51:23 Nintendo Switch 2 Performance – Enough for AAA?

1:02:28 Console CPU Limitations

1:10:05 PlayStation 5 Pro Ray Tracing, Performance, PSSR

1:23:41 Ray Tracing as the Default - What Perf. is required?

1:33:29 What specs should the PS6 have?

1:37:43 Do Devs get excited for new tech, or does it just cause more work?

1:47:09 Spirit of the North 2

Check out Spirit of the North 2 on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1778840/Spirit_of_the_North_2/

Infuse Studio: https://infusedstudio.com/

Taylor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tayler-christensen-61ab4351/

Jacob: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-sutton-0970794b/

Jacob's Presentation about porting to Switch (Tom asked a q1uestion ~27 min): https://www.youtube.com/live/BWclTpZN9YY?si=s3Y_4w3L5fAT3ThK

MLID Switch 2 Leak that's been corroborated: https://youtu.be/SibxVnw3LwY

MLID PS5 Pro Leak that's been corroborated: https://youtu.be/2nzlJAsTDo0?si=AAb9mtb9VFQxqYHf&t=1869

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_Games

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gtx-titan.c1996

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/96879/sonys-upgraded-playstation-5-pro-console-features-spectral-super-resolution-pssr/index.html