The Importance of Boosting Hardware on Consoles

This week, the team take a look at the specs required to run Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart on PC and discuss how crucial DirectStorage is to the future of PC gaming. Meanwhile, the AMD Starfield partnership sees specs reveals turned into an awkward marketing exercise that confuses gamers. Classic cut content is coming to Halo: The Master Chief Collection, while Rich reveals initial results using the world's first full HDMI 2.1 capture card.

00:00:00 Introduction

00:00:48 Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart PC requirements drop

00:29:11 Halo cut content returning to Master Chief Collection

00:35:40 X68000 Mini retro device has issues

00:38:26 Limited Run Games shows off new and old titles

00:47:02 Leaked document details Sega of America’s struggles

01:05:40 What’s up with the new HDMI 2.1 capture cards? And can’t PCs record 4K120 internally?

01:12:10 Does console software receive system-wide performance boosts over the course of a generation?

01:15:42 Why has Nvidia, besides the Switch, checked out of consoles?

01:23:24 Why was the Digital Foundry Twitter account in a Twitter Spaces event on UFOs?

01:26:32 Do you have plans for more conference commentary videos?

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