261. Nintendo Switch 2 Performance, PS5 Pro, AMD Zen 5 | Spirit of the North 2 Devs

261. Nintendo Switch 2 Performance, PS5 Pro, AMD Zen 5 | Spirit of the North 2 Devs

Author: Moore's Law Is Dead, Bleav June 11, 2024 Duration: 1:57:30
The Creators of Spirit of the North 2 join to discuss next gen consoles and game development! [SPON: Use "brokensilicon“ at CDKeyOffer to get Win 11 Pro for $23: https://www.cdkeyoffer.com/cko/Moore11 ] [SPON: Get 10% off Tasty Vite Ramen with code BROKENSILICON: https://bit.ly/3wKx6v1 ] 0:00 Founding Infuse Studio 9:26 How Game Development has changed over the past decade 13:17 Game Developer Layoffs 26:44 Has AAA Development become bloated? 34:56 Scaling Studios with Success & Game Design 49:38 PC Minimum Requirements - How are they Decided? 53:20 Nintendo Switch 2 Performance – Enough for AAA? 1:04:25 Console CPU Limitations 1:13:52 PlayStation 5 Pro Ray Tracing, Performance, PSSR 1:27:29 Ray Tracing as the Default - What Perf. is required? 1:37:17 What specs should the PS6 have? 1:41:31 Do Devs get excited for new tech, or does it just cause more work? 1:50:57 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

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