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

• missingno@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bear in mind that Kirby Air Ride came out in 2003, on a console that's only meant to be hooked up to CRTs. How many users back then do you think would've had access to this feature in the first place? Or would still be playing this game if/when they upgrade later?

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  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It was uncommon, but not so uncommon that it didn’t warrant being added to the game. Especially when Dolby was handing out licenses like candy apparently. I would imagine it was cheap to get a license, and would make some sense why Air Ride wouldn’t have it. Air Ride is my favorite Kirby game, but even I recognize that Air Ride is probably one of the lowest budget Kirby games.

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    • englislanguage@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That sounds a bit as if you were saying: The plebs shall wait for the joy of the wealthy.

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• theareciboincident@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The problem people have with your argument is not the existence of 5.1 surround sound.

  Nor is it that the vast majority of households can’t afford a properly tuned surround sound setup instead of haphazardly throwing speakers around which arguably creates a worse experience than stereo.

  It’s that the Dolby implementation requires publishers to license it and pay for an unstoppable ad that plays before every session, while benefitting only the petit bourgeois.

  Notice how you reverted so quickly to your capitalist brainwashing. May be a good inspiration to see what other ideologies have been implanted into you.

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  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It is two seconds.

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    • morphballganon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Per use.

      I strongly prefer 0 seconds.

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    • fishpen0@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If every single software a company licensed to produce a video game required this, you would be waiting an hour to see the start menu. Don’t let any company do this or they all will.

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    • Signtist@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Negative change worms it’s way in through small defeats. The first DLC’s were a small price for a lot of content, the first YouTube ads were only a single ad that was just a few seconds long, the first video game preorders came with amazing rewards, etc. When you allow for 2 seconds, then what’s 3 seconds? What’s 4, 5, 6? What’s 30 seconds? What’s 2 minutes? We’ve seen examples of this all throughout capitalism’s history; to ignore them is, well, ignorant.

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    • essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not only is it just 2 seconds, but it’s 2 seconds while the game is no doubt being loaded into memory while it plays anyway.

      This is like whining about the Pixar animation that plays before all of their movies (for much longer than 2 seconds).

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      • missingno@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Gamecube doesn't have enough RAM to preload everything at startup like that, you have to go through the menus and pick a game mode and map to load.

        Surely if it needed that startup load anyway, then Sakurai wouldn't be saying he turned the license down in order to get players in the game faster. I'm going to trust Sakurai's word here!

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      • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I would understand the complaint if it was longer, like 5 or 7 seconds long for just the Dolby logo. But its not.

        Like, if seeing a logo for two seconds bothers you that much, better close your eyes when driving riding the bus walking around town, otherwise you might see a dreaded billboard or advertisement.

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• hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So many assumptions here.

  Let me refute them through educated guesses.

  • most people don’t have anything other than stereo
  • most people don’t want anything other than stereo
  • not everyone has the money to even get a decent TV, let alone 5.1 or God forbid 7.1
  • Kirby does not focus an people with high end playback devices. It’s traditionally a kids game.
  • 2secs Everytime you open the game can add up and be really annoying. Especially for kids, which are the core audience.

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  • BorgDrone@lemmy.one ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So because some people have a crappy home theater setup everyone should have a crappy experience?

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    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hey my setup’s great, I just don’t need 5.1 surround sound that bad

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      • BorgDrone@lemmy.one ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Without at least 5.1, why even bother playing games or watching movies?

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    • bitfucker@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      From the pareto principle it can be said that if the cost for adding a feature for the little percentage of users is quite high, it is not worth it.

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• Emerald@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Who games on a 5.1 surround setup?

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