Gamers Overwhelmingly Prefer Fake Resolution - WAN Show February 20, 2026
2/21/20263 hr 8 min
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
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Linus Sebastian· Host0:14
[upbeat jingle] [neighs] Welcome to the WAN Show! [laughing] It's the year of the horse, baby, and we got a great show for you guys today. [laughing] There's big changes at Xbox. After nearly 40 years, Phil Spencer is out at Microsoft, so we'll be talking about that. [laughs] We'll also be talking about how gamers apparently overwhelmingly prefer DLSS over FSR, and in some cases, over native. Is that... Is i- i- i- i- i- c- could that be right? What else we got today?
Luke Lafreniere· Host0:58
If you didn't like GPUs being up, if you didn't like RAM being up, well, you're not gonna like hard drives being up. Hard drive capacity for Western Digital is sold out for 2026.
Linus Sebastian· Host1:09
That's more sold out than Linus from Linus Tech Tips. Got him!
Luke Lafreniere· Host1:13
I don't know.
Linus Sebastian· Host1:15
Oh, come on. [chuckles] Come on, c- there's no way Colton's team has everything sold out through the end of 2028.
Luke Lafreniere· Host1:22
I wouldn't be surprised if they're close.
Linus Sebastian· Host1:23
[laughing] There's no way. I'll... Don't make me call him.
Luke Lafreniere· Host1:26
And, and, uh, speaking of... Uh, no, I don't have a transition