Digital Foundry Direct Weekly18 Apr 2022

DF Direct Weekly #57: Kingdom Hearts UE5, Witcher 3 ’Next-Gen’ Delayed, Criterion Need for Speed

With the glut of triple-A releases over, the games industry continues to lull into a state of near-hibernation - not great when you're looking to produce a weekly chat show on the latest gaming and technology news. But we have a bunch of reports/rumours to respond to! The Witcher 3's next-gen upgrade has been delayed and news is starting to emerge of Criterion's new Need for Speed. And we did get an actual announcement: Kingdom Hearts 4 on UE5... so what does the team make of all this?

00:00:00 Introductions

00:00:55 News 01: Kingdom Hearts 4 revealed

00:07:50 DF Supporter Q: What games do you hope are real from the Nvidia leak?

00:09:33 News 02: Next-gen Witcher 3 delayed and reorganized

00:16:24 News 03: Rumors of Criterion NFS in November

00:25:24 News 04: LG C2 TVs have issues

00:34:59 DF Content Discussion: Unreal Engine 5

00:53:00 DF Content Discussion: Motorstorm and PS3 emulation

01:04:08 DF Supporter Q1: What is your opinion on Deck's night pitched fan whine?

01:05:40 DF Supporter Q2: Would the Steam Deck (or other platforms) benefit from games having a native resolution UI with the 3D graphics at a lower resolution scaled up?

01:05:56 DF Supporter Q3: What are your thoughts on the upcoming technologies regarding upsampling via FSR 2.0 or Unreal engines TAA solution regarding the Steam Deck's resolution?

01:08:36 DF Supporter Q4: Why didn't UE5 release with direct storage to begin with?

01:11:08 DF Supporter Q5: How do you guys think the increased focus on CPU power in current-gen consoles will affect game design trends going forward?

01:19:36 DF Supporter Q6: Do you think we’ll ever see a FPS AI driven optimization built into game engines, perhaps to push a 30fps title to an AI-interpolated 60fps without a noticeable sacrifice to quality and latency?

01:24:05 DF Supporter Q7: What exactly does the PS5 have in hardware to support ray tracing?

01:25:33 DF Supporter Q8: Which games would you consider technological highlights on the "OG-Xbox"?

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