The Nerd Next Door

Both Sony and Microsoft announced game consoles today, one was vague and was more of "hey this is coming" sort of thing and the other was "yep, this is a thing, buy it now." Both are interesting and I feel like this is a great time to talk about both it and the future of the games industry as a whole. Sony today dropped the "this is coming" news with the announcement of the Playstation 5, a brand new games console from Sony that runs AMD's Zen 2 architecture and NAVI GPU and promises backwards compatibility with PS4 games, raytracing, use of SSD's, and up to 8K support. So let's unpack all of this. I appreciate the use of PS4 games on the PS5, that was something missing from the PS4 that upset a lot of folks and only a little bit of it made sense; the lack of PS3 BC made sense because the PS3 was an archeticual nightmare but not even having PS1 or PS2 support just felt wack. SSD's are always appreciated and are slowly becoming the way ...

Recently, Nvidia launched the GTX 1660 Graphics Card, designed for mid range buyers. Now that doesn't sound so bad but given that the previous releases were the 10 series (1050, 1060, 1070, etc.) followed by the 20 series, this name makes no sense. But in spite of it not making sense, I think Nvidia can get away with it, and here's the scoop as to how. Now, I'm a big PC Gamer, I emulate the old console games I own, and if there's a PC version availible I buy it on PC. When I hopped into PC Gaming I, like many, started with an Nvidia Card, the 750ti. It was decent and could run something like DOOM just fine. But I eventually wanted to get into better games and realized that I wanted something better,  so I picked up a GTX 1070. Now on second though, given I was only running 1080p and 60 frames per second, I should have gone for the GTX 1060 or 1050, but it ran well and that's all I needed. I only recently upgraded to the Vega 64 from AMD, so I have supported the...