TT Show Episode 56 – PAX Australia recap, NVIDIA’s PC gaming handheld and more

This week on another episode of The TT Show, Kosta talks about all the cool PC hardware he saw at PAX Australia – from custom builds to rigs to new gaming handhelds. There are a few not-so-new ones as Valve officially brings the Steam Deck to Australia.

On the topic of handhelds, Kosta and Jak discuss the possibility of NVIDIA releasing a PC gaming handheld with GeForce RTX hardware in the future. This appears to be happening thanks to its recent partnership with MediaTek to develop chips specifically for portable AI devices like laptops. For Kosta, this seems inevitable as it is a growing segment and an area of ​​PC gaming where NVIDIA has no presence at all.

Of course, NVIDIA dominates the desktop space and with the impending launch of the GeForce RTX 50 series, there has been a lot of discussion about how much the new flagship GeForce RTX 5090 will cost. The MSRP will be higher than the GeForce RTX 4090 at $1,599, but how much higher?

Plus, on this week’s episode of The TT Show, the duo discuss a dark secret said to be hidden within the walls of the Nintendo Museum in Japan – classic Super Nintendo games running on a Windows PC with software emulation. Well, it’s more ironic than dark considering Nintendo’s consistent and contentious anti-emulation policy when it comes to its games and hardware.

There’s also talk of Concord’s return, with new evidence showing Sony isn’t done with the biggest flop in video game history just yet. In other gaming news, Kosta talks about Unreal Engine 6 and how it will try to make the metaverse a thing. Again. And in the world of science, Jak experiences a number of breakthroughs and historic moments: spaceships successfully land in giant mech arms, scientists create robots with cat vision, and a new liquid that looks exactly like the stuff Spider-Man shoots out of his wrists.

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All the topics discussed on this week’s episode of The TT Show