DF Direct Weekly takes on the PSVR2 spec leak, The Coalition on UE5 and RetroTink 5x

Eleven episodes in and we’re not still run out of chat! DF Direct Weekly is where the core team members take a break from their tasks every Thursday to discuss the biggest tech stories of the week. The show goes out on Saturday to members of the Digital Foundry Supporter Program, who also provide excellent source material for our weekly Q+A. The show then gets its public release every Monday, where you shall discover what we think about topics as diverse as The Coalition’s announcement that it’s working with Unreal Engine 5, to the reveal of the Nvidia RTX 3050 Ti notebook GPU, to the leak of the PSVR2 specifications.

We also like to spend a bit of time talking about the content we’re working on and some of the reaction to it, with Alex Battaglia particularly forthright about the reaction to his Resident Evil Village PC breakdown in particular. John Linneman discusses his live stream on the brilliant RetroTink 5X scaler (watch that stream here, it’s great!). Meanwhile, we also talk about some of the behind the scenes goodies given away to supporters, including a two-hour retro Q+A, and a look back to God of War 3 way back in 2010 amongst other things via our ‘Classic FPS Remastered’ series. This is where we dig out library captures from decade-old hard drives, re-analyse the footage with today’s tools and sympathetically upscale 720p video for today’s 2160p displays.

For those interested in specific segments, here are some time codes for you:

00:00 Introduction01:18 PSVR 2 Spec Leak12:57 The Coalition on Unreal Engine 518:28 Intel Tiger Lake H and Nvidia RTX 3050/ 3050 Ti Laptop Reveal26:17 Xbox Series Console Quick Resume Update32:22 RetroTink 5x Pro Release40:15 DF Supporter Program: What’s Happening This Week?43:40 Resident Evil Village on PC?53:53 DF Supporter Q+A

Supporter Q+A continues to deliver with some bangers – what do we think of the non-wireless nature of PSVR2? What sort of presentation would we expect to see from Resident Evil Village 2 on PSVR2? Do we ever envisage the end of the games console in favour of streaming services? And what about Gabe Newell’s hints about Steam landing on a console some time this year? The interrogation continues with our thoughts on why Control Ultimate Edition only uses ‘low’ settings on PS5 and Series X and whether this is a disappointment or not, and what would we pick if we could only have one: 1080p at 144fps or 4K at 60fps?