Nintendo Switch 2 Performance, PS5 Pro, AMD Zen 5 | Spirit of the North 2 Devs | Broken Silicon 261

The Creators of Spirit of the North 2 join to discuss next gen consoles and game development!
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0:00 Founding Infuse Studio
9:26 How Game Development has changed over the past decade
13:17 Game Developer Layoffs
26:44 Has AAA Development become bloated?
34:56 Scaling Studios with Success & Game Design
49:38 PC Minimum Requirements - How are they Decided?
53:20 Nintendo Switch 2 Performance – Enough for AAA?
1:04:25 Console CPU Limitations
1:13:52 PlayStation 5 Pro Ray Tracing, Performance, PSSR
1:27:29 Ray Tracing as the Default - What Perf. is required?
1:37:17 What specs should the PS6 have?
1:41:31 Do Devs get excited for new tech, or does it just cause more work?
1:50:57 Spirit of the North 2


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