About this episode

The episode discusses Sony's decision to end physical game production by 2028, Nvidia's GPU performance challenges, and the future of gaming.

Episode 106: We chat about Sony ending production of physical games in 2028, and the implications that has for game ownership. Plus we talk about the challenges Nvidia faces with improving GPU performance, and the future of gaming as a result. CHAPTERS 00:00 - Intro 00:30 - Life Update 02:35 - A chat about recent content 06:00 - Playstation ending disc support 32:06 - Has GPU performance really hit a ceiling? 44:00 - The future of gaming? 53:34 - Is Radeon in the same boat as Nvidia? 01:01:03 - Why games aren't getting better? 01:19:36 - Our Boring Lives SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Audio: https://shows.acast.com/the-hardware-unboxed-podcast Video: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqT8Vb3jweH6_tj2SarErfw SUPPORT US DIRECTLY Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hardwareunboxed LINKS YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Hardwareunboxed/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/HardwareUnboxed Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/hardwareunboxed.bsky.social Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Hardware Unboxed

Topics covered

• gaming
• GPU performance
• physical games
• future of gaming
• Sony
• Nvidia

Keywords

• Sony
• Nvidia
• gaming
• GPU
• physical games
• Playstation
• future of gaming

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sony, Nvidia

Products: Playstation

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