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

• grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Now you’re just playing

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      • BorgDrone@lemmy.one ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sound is at least as important to the experience as the picture. Go watch a scary movie with the sound muted and you’ll notice it’s not scary at all.

        Playing a game or watching a movie with just 2.0 audio, or worse: using the TV’s built-in speakers, is such a diminished experience that you might as well not bother.

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    • Soggy@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Imagine consuming media with speakers rather than high-end OEMs to shut out all outside sound. Might as well just read books in a crowded café.

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      • BorgDrone@lemmy.one ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Imagine not being able to feel explosions in your gut because you have a pair of tiny speakers strapped to your head instead of a big long-throw woofer moving air.

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• bitfucker@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨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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