DF Direct Weekly #199: Forza Horizon PS5, Next-Gen Xbox Hints, Spider-Man 2 PC, Nvidia Smooth Motion

Digital Foundry Direct Weekly

Join Rich, Alex and Oliver for another huge Direct, covering off the 'no red lines' Xbox news and the Forza Horizon 5 PS5 announcement, hints from Phil Spencer about next-gen Xbox, along with early impressions on Marvel's Spider-Man 2 on PC. Meanwhile, the team field questions about the controversial RTX 5080 release, while Alex tests out the surprise new feature - Nvidia Smooth Motion. Finally, Oliver is very, very excited about DeepSeek - but does it spell the end of Nvidia's AI dominance?

0:00:00 Introduction

0:01:00 News 1: Forza Horizon 5 headed to PS5

0:12:04 News 2: Phil Spencer: Xbox hardware will be the differentiator

0:30:37 News 3: Spider-Man 2 PC disappoints

0:44:44 News 4: RTX 5080 review reaction

1:11:48 News 5: Nvidia Smooth Motion adds frame gen on all games

1:18:46 News 6: DeepSeek R1 LLM impresses!

1:32:51 Supporter Q1: Does AMD have a big opportunity with the RX 9070 series?

1:40:31 Supporter Q2: Is there a risk in shipping console hardware ML acceleration too early?

1:45:00 Supporter Q3: What kind of techniques do you think will be accelerated by ML in the future?

1:51:02 Supporter Q4: Should GPU reviewers test different upscalers at “equivalent image quality” settings?

1:55:28 Supporter Q5: What would Apple need to do to compete in AAA gaming?

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