NOOO My New Console!!
TechLinked
·TechLinked
·2021-05-05
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1,316 words · ~6 min read
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- It's freaky Friday. - [Man] Wow, watch out!
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- So, you tried and failed to buy one of the next gen consoles this week.
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And you failed, and you tried and failed. Well, don't fail too bad
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as those evil people who were able to hit the order button
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like one millisecond before you did, are having their own problems.
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Some Xbox Series X units are making a clicking noise that reportedly has something to do
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with either the hard drive or the fan. Well, some PlayStation 5 owners
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are experiencing a storage glitch which can corrupt game installs
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and even brick the entire console. That's what they deserve.
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- [Man] (laughs) - 'Cause they're not me. - [Man] Aww! - Neither of these issues seem widespread enough
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to cause a real crisis, not like Bendgate or something,
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with most fans reportedly... Wait, fans as in people?
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- [Man] Yes. - Okay, most people fans reportedly having a quote great time.
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But Nintendo meanwhile, isn't worried about its competitors.
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They've just released the Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros, a tiny clock that doubles as a handheld
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with three playable games. Super Mario Bros one and two,
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as well as a juggling game called Balls. - [Man] Sounds way better.
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- I'm keeping my voice like this. Oh, and the Switch sold 735,000 units in October,
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Sony and Microsoft, just so you know, making it the second-highest selling console ever
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for the month. For all Octobers. - All Octobers.
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- It's surpassed only by the sales of the Wii in 2008. And the Switch doesn't even support ray tracing.
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You know? - [Man] Throw it in the garbage. - A big fuss was made over
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AMD's Smart Access Memory Technology when they revealed it at the Radeon 6000 event last week.
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But now NVIDIA says they're going to have their own version up and running soon.
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You guys, smart access memory, SAM, S-A-M,
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allows a Ryzen CPU direct access to a Radeon GPU's memory,
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which can improve performance. Some enthusiasts have pointed out that the feature was actually already included
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in the PCIe spec. So technically it wouldn't be that hard
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for NVIDIA to implement similar tech. The GPU wars are only set to heat up from here, guys,
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with rumors pointing to NVIDIA's unannounced RTX 3060,
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launching in January with 12 gigabytes of RAM. - [Man] Whoa!
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And images popping up of its sister card, the RTX 3060 Ti, hello!
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- [Man] Hey. - Sadly, none of them can run Spider-Man: Miles Morales.
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So really, what's the point? - [Man] Throw it in the garbage.
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- Well, they could run it but they don't, it's exclusive. - [Man] Well.
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- That's what you're saying, right? - [Man] No, it's on consoles. - Yeah, yeah, but like they could, they could handle it.
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- [Man] Well you can make it. - And gamers everywhere were glued
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to their screens any different way this morning, as a potential hostage situation unfolded
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at Ubisoft Montreal, yikes. Social media clips showed police surrounding
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the game studios headquarters and then helicopter footage emerged
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showing dozens of employees gathering on the roof, holding a rock concert.
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Just kidding. Having barricaded the door back into the building.
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But things weren't as dire as they seemed, as around 4:00PM Eastern,
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police had evacuated the building with all employees reported to be safe and accounted for.
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A police spokesperson said, "No threat has been identified for now."
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It's unclear what exactly happened, maybe someone called in a fake threat,
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or there was a miscommunication, or it was just the last nice day before winter.
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But their confusion is understandable. We're all just a little on edge right now, you know.
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- [Man] Anything could happen. - Ah, Assassin's Creed have a bug, who knows?
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- [Man] Get smart. - Stop being dumb. How do you like dumb apples, dumb bum?
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- [Man] Dump apples. - Each quick bit that flutters off my tongue
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is a new height of ecstasy. I've been microdosing QuickVids all week.
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- [Man] Stop it. - After Google Photos locked some editing features behind it paywall,
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it's now revealed that next Summer, it will no longer offer free unlimited photo storage.
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If you want more than 15 gigabytes, you're gonna have to pay for cloud storage
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through Google One, whatever that is.
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Pixel phones are also getting a downgrade. Future Pixel devices won't get any special photos perks,
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but current Pixel owners will still enjoy unlimited high quality photos,
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which already was a downgrade. 'Cause they used to get unlimited... - [Man] That's true.
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- Yeah, you know, what were they called? - [Man] Original quality. - Original quality.
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PayPal is bringing its support for cryptocurrencies out of Beta.
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Now all PayPal users will have the ability to buy, hold and sell cryptocurrencies in the U.S.
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You can't use PayPal to buy anything,
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like product-wise with your cryptocurrency, but you'll know it's there.
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And that's half the fun of crypto anyway. Just something to have and to hold on.
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- [Man] Its just like Pokemon. - Apple isn't the only one to shift
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using its own proprietary processors. Perhaps because the M1s performance numbers
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are looking so great. Amazon has begun shifting away from using NVIDIA's GPU's
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in some of its own servers, to using its Inferentia chips.
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And Google is still working on its own mobile chips for our future Pixel phones.
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And honestly, I'm thinking to make my own chips too. There's gonna be a ton of great DIY recipes online,
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they're gonna be like Doritos, except with green finger dust,
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because they're gonna be hemp-based, which is better for the environment, and you know the war on drugs is a failure.
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- [Man] Whoa, what's going on with you? - Oculus has already pushed out the 90 Hertz update
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that it promised to the Oculus Quest two, meaning that both standalone and desktop VR titles
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can use the higher refresh rate instead of the 72 Hertz,
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the headset was previously locked to. So you can send data to Facebook even faster than before
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while enjoying an admittedly pretty sick headset,
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if not for the Facebook thing. (both men groaning)
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- I'm against Facebook but I love Instagram, you know. And remember when TikTok potentially being banned
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was the biggest thing in the world? Yeah, apparently the Trump administration forgot too,
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because the app was supposed to have its reckoning this week.
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The deadline for determining its fate, has instead being extended by two weeks.
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At which point, I'm sure everything will be completely calmed down,
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and we can deal with it properly. - [Man] Back to normal. - You know, clear minds.
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- [Man] We'll be fine, two weeks.
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- It's time to clear your mind because this episode is over.
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Come back on Monday for more. It won't be me, I'll be at home with my baby, by myself.
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I call it babysitting even though it's my own kid.