Amid Steam Machine performance scrutiny, Valve removes '4K at 60FPS' claim, opting for a safer and more believable claim instead
https://www.eurogamer.net/steam-machine-marketing-update-4k-60-fps-removed
https://www.eurogamer.net/steam-machine-marketing-update-4k-60-fps-removed
15 Comments
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 30 pts · 60d
4k60fps gaming, but limiting basically everything by default to only 1080p is basically false advertising.
artyom@piefed.social · 17 pts · 60d
1080p low with FSR4 haha
Honestly listing only resolution and framerate is dumb because there's just a cornucopia of information that's omitted. If you want to give people an idea of performance, just throw up some specs for a handful of the most popular games or don't advertise anything.
Cethin@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 60d
I don't want one of these, because I have a computer that's far better, but also it depends on what you play. 99% of what I play would probably be fine even at 4k60fps. Sure, if you want to play a AAA game from the past 5, maybe 10, years, it's not going to happen. Most indies probably will, especially 2D or light 3D ones.
smeg@feddit.uk · 29 pts · 60d
Surely it entirely depends on the game? I can get 4k/60fps on the steam deck for some games, others can barely get 30fps on minimum settings.
AceBonobo@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 60d
Surely a claim like that should mean that's the performance of the majority of popular games on the device?
smeg@feddit.uk · 10 pts · 60d
How do you define the majority of popular games though? You could probably cherry pick a definition that proved anything!
Miaou@jlai.lu · 4 pts · 60d
"10 most sold games last year"
Of course it's necessarily cherry picked but it doesn't mean it cannot be representative
smeg@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 60d
Most sold isn't most popular though, don't the currently-played charts always include old, free, low-requirements games like Counter Strike?
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 59d
Don't forget Stardew Valley and Factorio
artyom@piefed.social · 14 pts · 60d
I realize editorializing titles is frowned upon but if you could please just remove the clickbait from your title, that'd be So Sick.
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 60d
WTF? Those specs aren't even good enough for QHD for any semi demanding game!
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 60d
I'm disappointed in Valve making the same mistake as Sony did.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 8 pts · 60d
Yeah, I do 4k gaming and have a beast of a rig, and even then I barely get it up there. Cyberpunk still struggles years later.
Jjoiq@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 60d
I hear u with cyberpunk.
purplerabbit@piefed.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 60d
What a way to shoot yourself in the foot in the first place....