Digital Foundry Direct Weekly30 Touko 2022

DF Direct Weekly #63: New Consoles in 2024? Xbox Streaming Stick, PS+ Classics Disappoint

Much to discuss this week as the silly season brings us unconfirmed rumours of new consoles, plus a wealth of new information from Sony on its PC strategy and its future plans for PS4. Meanwhile, Windows Central reveals news on Microsoft's xCloud streaming stick, but can the technology actually become viable for all? Also - the PlayStation Plus classics emulators. They're not great and John's not happy about it. Finally, Alex has been spending 'quality time' with Steam Deck but what does that actually mean?

00:00:00 Introductions

00:00:46 News 01: TCL anticipates new consoles by 2024

00:13:07 News 02: Sony doubling down on PC

00:21:55 News 03: PS4 Cross-Gen here to stay for a while.

00:25:42 News 04: Next Xbox is a cloud streaming stick?

00:29:34 Supporter Q: What's your take on whether the big obstacle for making game streaming more attractive being the problem with Internet infrastructures, or something the streaming software can solve by itself?

00:35:42 News 05: PS Classics on PS+ isn't great

00:36:39 Supporter Q: PS Classics questions

00:50:42 Supporter Q01: If FSR 2.0 is providing comparable quality to DLSS, don't you think Nvidia is wasting precious silicon area that could be used on more shaders on tensor cores?

00:53:16 Supporter Q02: Any thoughts on DLSS, FSR, or XeSS being used to upscale streaming services like Netflix?

00:59:52 Supporter Q03: Do publishers update the versions of their games on physical discs for later print runs?

01:02:48 Supporter Q04: Can you see yourselves potentially using Steam OS on your non-work PCs once it's seen a proper release of version 3?

01:07:34 Supporter Q05: Do you think we could see cross-gen games that ditch the base last-gen consoles but work on the enhanced consoles?

01:09:11 Supporter Q06: Will Knack 3’s inevitable announcement (or release) coincide with a PS5 firmware update to enable its promised 8K output?

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