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it. This is actually worse than usual.
Frosted tips. You know what else is worse than usual? The tech news today.
The leaks were accurate. NVIDIA launched the GeForce GTX 1660Ti today. A graphics
card with a touring GPU similar to the RTX 20 series, but without any ray
tracing or DLSS capabilities. Now, the Linus Tech Tips review is coming out
tomorrow, but the overall takeaway is already pretty much clear. It's pretty
close to a GTX 1070 in terms of performance, which means that the price
point of $280 is pretty good, but that
assumes that you can find a reference card because ASUS alone launched nine
different versions of the 1660 Ti. Along
with the card itself, NVIDIA released a questionable explanation for why they
called it the 1660 instead of the 1160,
telling Gamers Nexus that the GPU's designation is
TU16. And also that it's closer to 2060
than 1070 in terms of performance. 16 is
closer to 20 than 10. It's dumb. It's so
dumb. It's really dumb. And I actually have a different take on that whole
debacle in uh the video that I host that's coming up tomorrow. Don't miss
it. It's actually hilarious. The PlayStation 4 has beaten the Xbox One in
the war for home gaming console dominance. And now Microsoft may be
looking to ally with a common enemy, Nintendo. Is it is this real? Is it
April 1st? A report from Direct Feed
Games, a source of accurate information in the past, claims that Microsoft is
currently working with Nintendo to bring its Xbox Game Pass subscription program
and its indevelopment Project XCloud
game streaming service to the Nintendo
the Nintendo Switch. We're talking about playing Halo on the Switch. They're
going to have Halo on the Switch before they have it on the PC. Yeah, I'm I'm
upset. Reports are also claiming that Microsoft will announce two nextG Xbox
models at E3 2019. One of which will be focused on game streaming, while the
other set up as more of a traditional console. Either way, 2019 is shaping up
to be a very interesting year for consoles. I mean, heck, Google might
even be showing off a streaming console of their own at GDC. Like, it's enough
to make a PC gamer say like, "Oh, isn't that cute? All the console people are
having so much fun while we play all these games that cost less." Good for
them. Good for them. And Intel continues to try to build up the hype for their
upcoming discrete graphics cards. Can I get a whoop whoop for Intel? Yeah. No.
Lesser of two evils even.
Anyway, the company put out a video inviting gamers to join them on the
path, the journey, the Odyssey, which as
it turns out is a website where users can sign up to get the latest reports
first and access to amazing offers and giveaways. Intel will also be hosting a
series of live events around the world to foster interaction with the
community. And they they even gave us some useful information. Intel did
confirm some details to tech report about their discrete GPUs. There will
apparently be a whole stack of graphics options from new integrated graphics all
the way up to the highest end. And they do plan to duke it out with NVIDIA and
AMD when their products start releasing in the year 2020. But if they're going
to do that, they are going to have to build some buzz first, right? They're
gonna have to go on like a world tour and make a website. Yeah. Yeah. That's
what that'll do. Wait, are we are we are we playing into the hype hype machine
right now? Oh, no. No. Have we done it again? Oh, no. No. They didn't even pay
us. Onto the HTC has announced an upgrade to its
original Vive Focus wireless VR headset called the Vive Focus Plus. The Plus
comes with new six degrees of freedom ultrasonic controllers that will also
work with the Vive Cosmos. But the most important bit is that it will be
available worldwide. The original Focus only launched in China, and that's just
not fair. We want new VR headsets, too.
Yeah, but do we do we really? I've already got the good kind that plugs
into my PC. So now this one isn't really tech news, but
Reggie F as is this a French name. Phil's Ames. I
you know what? Forget it. The president of Nintendo of America is no longer the
president of Nintendo of America. He has passed the torch to Doug
Bowser. What is this? Some kind of joke? No. next their their VP is gonna be like
you know Jeff Toad stool like Jeff Yoshi
the mushroom the mushroom kingdom is taking over. Oh no. Speaking of Japan,
the country successfully landed its Hayabusa 2 probe on the surface of
Ryugu, the asteroid that it's been orbiting for the last couple of months.
It's only the second time that humans have managed to land something on an
asteroid. And I think that that's pretty
cool. Don't you? Yes, I should be asking what's wrong
with Singapore Airlines and American Airlines. That segue didn't work. After
flyers discovered cameras embedded in the back of airplane seats flown by the
two companies, both airlines claimed that the cameras are a standard feature
for possible future use, such as recognizing hand gestures to control
on-screen entertainment, and that they have never been activated. But like I
mean at what point do we kind of go, you know, yeah, I'm just carrying around
this duct tape and a machete for future use. A machete. They've never actually
been activated. And the second largest cable company in the US, Charter
Communications, has announced a streaming service called Spectrum TV
Essentials. Essentially bundles a broad
spectrum of around 60 TV channels into a
streaming package that you can purchase for 15 bucks a month. Wait, hold on a
second. That's just a cable TV package.
Wait, hold on. Is it No, the cycle's starting all over. No, we have to get
It's It's cable TV all over again. I have to I have to get out. I have to get
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