Comment on Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo

UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• krashmo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They’re so pointless too. What are they even expecting forcing them in our faces to accomplish? You either care about audio or you don’t. Seeing your logo isn’t going to change that

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Marketing. If people think Dolby is good, they will prefer products with Dolby compatibility, and Dolby makes money from that licensing.

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    • krashmo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Except most people don’t give a shit about Dolby. Even audophiles mostly don’t care about them as a company or the fact that they’re involved beyond the games ability to support high end output devices. Put that garbage on the box or in the credits at the end of the game where it belongs

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      • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Most people that say they give a shit about surround sound don’t have it set up correctly anyway lol

        They’re lucky if the speakers are even in the right place…let alone tuned properly. Good AVRs come with a microphone and most of the takeover projects I did when I was in home AV had it sitting unopened in the box.

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      • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Audiophiles loathe that crap. It’s not making better sound, just adds loudness and other shit. Surround? It’s like when groups long time ago started using stereo and made the sound Left then Right then LEFT etc. After the first experience its just a nuisance.

        But gotta sell the crap I guess. Good they just didn’t care about big corpo :-)

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      • thesystemisdown@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Half assed audiophile here. I only have two ears. I just want clean and balanced. Two channels is just fine.

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• NutWrench@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yup. The game company intros are the first thing I edit out of a game’s config files. Especially if they’re unskippable.

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• MrVilliam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  PSA: On PS5, after launching your game, hit the PS button. If there are activities, you can probably hit square to resume. This speeds through all the startup wankery and the main menu straight to loading your save. It rarely saves time, but it means you can launch your game and walk away to get a glass of water or whatever. I enjoy it.

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