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

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? Join the DF Supporter Program for pristine video downloads, behind the scenes content, early access to new videos, early access to DF Direct Weekly and much, much more: https://bit.ly/3jEGjvx Subscribe for more Digital Foundry: http://bit.ly/DFSubscribe Find DF Direct Weekly as a podcast on your favourite podcast streaming service. 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?