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Everything sounds good so far. Reiterating that I want to see what they will do about NewDark.

Can you localize the unit and your activity to a closed room?

If token prices are unsustainable and it causes the bubble to pop and big companies to collapse, there's still going to be a number of users who want to vibe code, run agents, and do other things. They should be doing it locally with hardware that would hopefully become cheaper in the aftermath. Such as Strix Halo, DGX Spark, RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell Workstation, M3 Ultra Mac Studio or later (256-512 GB models were discontinued), etc. It becomes a matter of electricity and heat rather than tokens.

If we see cuts in DDR5 pricing, SSD pricing, and GPU pricing, then prices can come back down. 1000 USD doesn't have to be the new normal, but you obviously need the AI bubble to pop. Rough but faster pre-built equivalents of the Steam Machine, also using 8 GB GPUs, were available around 550-600 USD on sale last year (ebay ones are refurbished). Steam Machine may not be as DOA as expected depending on where you live, and if people see it as a desirable SFF gaming PC, but I heard it's shipping in low volume anyway. And there are going to be many examples of prebuilts outperforming the Steam Machine around 1050 USD, but especially at around 1400 USD which is outrageous. You can install SteamOS, Bazzite, etc., especially if you get an AMD GPU, and buy a Steam controller separately if you wish. It appears that even an RTX 5050 will outperform the power-constrained 7600M-equivalent in the Steam Machine, so it's very easy to undercut it. RX 9060 XT 8GB is much faster, and it may be possible to build with relatively expensive RX 9060 XT 16GB while matching it on price. I would be surprised if the CPU is bottlenecking much despite being pretty weak, but Valve is not promising more than a single stick of 16 GB, in other words, single-channel memory. They claimed this doesn't affect its gaming peformance but I don't see how that could be the case. The silver lining is you can drop in one more stick for a relatively cheap upgrade.

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It might not make thematic sense to put that in many missions. Unless The City has been relocated to Skyrim.

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It would be interesting if they collaborated with the NewDark creator(s) if they plan on updating any code. Probably not even necessary at this point, but who knows?

NTC should be used on everything next-gen, but it's up to the developers. You can use the old way of compressing textures alongside NTC in the same game, for example if there's some artifacts you're trying to avoid on a specific texture. Sony may also have a feature on its servers allowing the console to download only the set of textures/assets it needs. For example, a lower quality texture pack for the PS6 handheld vs. the PS6 console. NTC will work on RDNA2, Nvidia itself tested it, but it may be slow. And if you turned it off but the developer went big with it, maybe 24 GB VRAM fills up. I'm just speculating, we need to see some real world use to figure it out, and that will mostly be years from now.

I don't think NTC will be a problem. All signs point to Neural Texture Compression being frequently used by game developers targeting next-gen RDNA5-based consoles. This could include a PS6 handheld with a relatively weak (checks notes) 16 CUs RDNA5 @ 1.2-1.65 GHz, and 24 GB LPDDR5X. But RDNA5 will have massive AI performance gains over RDNA2/3/3.5. My gut tells me the 6060 will be fine for most things, as long as they give it 3 GB GDDR7 modules for 12 GB on 128-bit bus.

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