Halo on Nintendo Switch!?
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·2019-05-06
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TechLinked 69. It's not That's not
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it. This is actually worse than usual.
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Frosted tips. You know what else is worse than usual? The tech news today.
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The leaks were accurate. NVIDIA launched the GeForce GTX 1660Ti today. A graphics
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card with a touring GPU similar to the RTX 20 series, but without any ray
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tracing or DLSS capabilities. Now, the Linus Tech Tips review is coming out
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tomorrow, but the overall takeaway is already pretty much clear. It's pretty
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close to a GTX 1070 in terms of performance, which means that the price
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point of $280 is pretty good, but that
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assumes that you can find a reference card because ASUS alone launched nine
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different versions of the 1660 Ti. Along
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with the card itself, NVIDIA released a questionable explanation for why they
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called it the 1660 instead of the 1160,
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telling Gamers Nexus that the GPU's designation is
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TU16. And also that it's closer to 2060
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than 1070 in terms of performance. 16 is
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closer to 20 than 10. It's dumb. It's so
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dumb. It's really dumb. And I actually have a different take on that whole
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debacle in uh the video that I host that's coming up tomorrow. Don't miss
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it. It's actually hilarious. The PlayStation 4 has beaten the Xbox One in
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the war for home gaming console dominance. And now Microsoft may be
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looking to ally with a common enemy, Nintendo. Is it is this real? Is it
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April 1st? A report from Direct Feed
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Games, a source of accurate information in the past, claims that Microsoft is
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currently working with Nintendo to bring its Xbox Game Pass subscription program
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and its indevelopment Project XCloud
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game streaming service to the Nintendo
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the Nintendo Switch. We're talking about playing Halo on the Switch. They're
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going to have Halo on the Switch before they have it on the PC. Yeah, I'm I'm
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upset. Reports are also claiming that Microsoft will announce two nextG Xbox
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models at E3 2019. One of which will be focused on game streaming, while the
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other set up as more of a traditional console. Either way, 2019 is shaping up
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to be a very interesting year for consoles. I mean, heck, Google might
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even be showing off a streaming console of their own at GDC. Like, it's enough
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to make a PC gamer say like, "Oh, isn't that cute? All the console people are
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having so much fun while we play all these games that cost less." Good for
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them. Good for them. And Intel continues to try to build up the hype for their
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upcoming discrete graphics cards. Can I get a whoop whoop for Intel? Yeah. No.
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Lesser of two evils even.
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Anyway, the company put out a video inviting gamers to join them on the
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path, the journey, the Odyssey, which as
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it turns out is a website where users can sign up to get the latest reports
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first and access to amazing offers and giveaways. Intel will also be hosting a
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series of live events around the world to foster interaction with the
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community. And they they even gave us some useful information. Intel did
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confirm some details to tech report about their discrete GPUs. There will
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apparently be a whole stack of graphics options from new integrated graphics all
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the way up to the highest end. And they do plan to duke it out with NVIDIA and
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AMD when their products start releasing in the year 2020. But if they're going
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to do that, they are going to have to build some buzz first, right? They're
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gonna have to go on like a world tour and make a website. Yeah. Yeah. That's
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what that'll do. Wait, are we are we are we playing into the hype hype machine
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right now? Oh, no. No. Have we done it again? Oh, no. No. They didn't even pay
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us. Onto the HTC has announced an upgrade to its
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original Vive Focus wireless VR headset called the Vive Focus Plus. The Plus
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comes with new six degrees of freedom ultrasonic controllers that will also
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work with the Vive Cosmos. But the most important bit is that it will be
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available worldwide. The original Focus only launched in China, and that's just
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not fair. We want new VR headsets, too.
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Yeah, but do we do we really? I've already got the good kind that plugs
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into my PC. So now this one isn't really tech news, but
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Reggie F as is this a French name. Phil's Ames. I
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you know what? Forget it. The president of Nintendo of America is no longer the
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president of Nintendo of America. He has passed the torch to Doug
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Bowser. What is this? Some kind of joke? No. next their their VP is gonna be like
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you know Jeff Toad stool like Jeff Yoshi
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the mushroom the mushroom kingdom is taking over. Oh no. Speaking of Japan,
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the country successfully landed its Hayabusa 2 probe on the surface of
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Ryugu, the asteroid that it's been orbiting for the last couple of months.
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It's only the second time that humans have managed to land something on an
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asteroid. And I think that that's pretty
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cool. Don't you? Yes, I should be asking what's wrong
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with Singapore Airlines and American Airlines. That segue didn't work. After
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flyers discovered cameras embedded in the back of airplane seats flown by the
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two companies, both airlines claimed that the cameras are a standard feature
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for possible future use, such as recognizing hand gestures to control
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on-screen entertainment, and that they have never been activated. But like I
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mean at what point do we kind of go, you know, yeah, I'm just carrying around
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this duct tape and a machete for future use. A machete. They've never actually
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been activated. And the second largest cable company in the US, Charter
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Communications, has announced a streaming service called Spectrum TV
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Essentials. Essentially bundles a broad
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spectrum of around 60 TV channels into a
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streaming package that you can purchase for 15 bucks a month. Wait, hold on a
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second. That's just a cable TV package.
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Wait, hold on. Is it No, the cycle's starting all over. No, we have to get
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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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out. There's no time left. Save yourself. Subscribe to Tech Link and
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