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- Comment on “I genuinely feel GameNative could replace handheld PCs like the Steam Deck” — Inside Android’s Fastest-Moving Gaming Project, GameNative (my article!) 2 weeks ago:
ARM isn’t the reason why it won’t work for long.
It’s cooling, as soon as the phone thermal soaks it’s throttles down - phones can’t have a decent cooling system since they use power (fans EAT power), degrade water resistance and just add weight/bulk that most don’t want in a phone.
The handhelds you’ve listed aren’t phones. They’re handhelds that do in fact have heatsinks - they’ll work fine.
Again this isn’t anything against ARM, it’s the idea that a phone form factor with zero cooling considerations will somehow best a device with those considerations.
- Comment on “I genuinely feel GameNative could replace handheld PCs like the Steam Deck” — Inside Android’s Fastest-Moving Gaming Project, GameNative (my article!) 2 weeks ago:
For a minute or so anyway, until the SoC overheats and thermal throttles.
You’re going to need a bigger battery and a real heatsink+fan if you want real gaming out of it, at which point it’s going to start getting to Deck size…
- Comment on Why are Steam games priced unfairly in Euros indifferent to where one resides? 2 weeks ago:
Or, a game looks great, is fairly made by inspired artists looking for a return on their risk, in which case: Why are you not paying them for their work?
Vast majority of people making games are on a Salary. They’re not getting any more or less return from you buying a game.
- Comment on Why are Steam games priced unfairly in Euros indifferent to where one resides? 2 weeks ago:
*Unless you’re a german webshop, then it’s fine to restrict sales to Germany only apparently.
- Comment on pro-self language 3 weeks ago:
oh it’s the .ml guide?
- Comment on Chocolate - The World's First Wii U GamePad Adapter for PC 4 weeks ago:
USA only unfortunately.
- Comment on The throne 4 weeks ago:
Squat Toilet Supremacy
- Comment on PS5 Price increase collapses PlayStation console sales in Japan, with Xbox gaining 4 weeks ago:
To be fair, ‘PlayStation’ is an American brand now, SCE is headquartered in California.
- Comment on PS5 Price increase collapses PlayStation console sales in Japan, with Xbox gaining 4 weeks ago:
Switch2 is selling insanely well in Japan as they have their special Japan-only subsidised version. (¥49,980/~USD$313)
- Comment on Does the engine a game uses factor into your decision to buy it or not? 4 weeks ago:
Increasingly yes, Unity is spyware and UE5 games all play, look and feel the same.
- Comment on Why is gaming becoming so expensive? The answer is found in AI 4 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t consider the main Dragon Quest to be AAA, let alone the spin-off builders game…
- Comment on Bethesda has released a major update for Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition on Nintendo Switch 2, significantly improving the overall experience on the console. 5 weeks ago:
Probably still sooner than GTA6 on PC.
- Comment on "Any update is a bonus not a right": Peak co-developer Landfall reminds impatient fans it's not a live-service studio 5 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t say any update.
The game should be fit for purpose, bug fixes should be expected.
New content should not, a ‘roadmap’ should not be expected. But I do expect the game to work.
- Comment on PS6 and Xbox Project Helix "will start at a 50% higher price" than PS5 and Xbox Series X, predict analysts following Sony price hike – and $999 "is not impossible" 1 month ago:
I know the topic is prices increasing due to scarcity of parts, but Nintendo should have expected exactly that outcome when they started subsidising the Japan-only consoles with higher prices elsewhere…
- Comment on PS6 and Xbox Project Helix "will start at a 50% higher price" than PS5 and Xbox Series X, predict analysts following Sony price hike – and $999 "is not impossible" 1 month ago:
And generally not very high quality.
- Comment on PS6 and Xbox Project Helix "will start at a 50% higher price" than PS5 and Xbox Series X, predict analysts following Sony price hike – and $999 "is not impossible" 1 month ago:
Can’t slowly upgrade a PS5 into a PS6 though.
You can on PC.
- Comment on [Jason Schreier] AAA game budgets estimated around $300 million. These budgets are almost entirely dev salaries + overheard and have nothing to do with executive compensation (which is mostly stock) 1 month ago:
Third the employees.
Reminder that Skyrim was made with a staff of ~300, that included revamping Gamebryo into Creation.
Devs with ~1000 devs using UE5 - what are the people even doing other than useless meetings?
- Comment on As UK game development suffers its ‘sharpest recorded decline’, trade association calls on UK Government to act | VGC 1 month ago:
Development of the arts is supposed to be for arts that could never stand on their own feet commercially though.
Game publishers shouldn’t ever be getting a cent.
Game developers shouldn’t either unless the game is released for free.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Says He Gets Where The DLSS 5 Outrage Is Coming From: ‘I Don’t Love AI Slop Myself’ 1 month ago:
Regular slop, ground truth data structured slop
It all flows downhill.
- Comment on Bethesda has no plans to slow down on paid mods, Todd Howard says he wants to get Creations 'in front of more people' 1 month ago:
I have no plans on buying any mods from Bethesda.
Why?
Because there is no guarantee of interoperability.
With mods from Nexus and friends, I have no expectation of compatibility between gratis mods made by people in their free time. (even though mod authors usually go to great pains to make sure they’re compatible with most anything that isn’t another mod doing the same thing)
If I’m paying for a ‘mod’ (really just DLC) - I expect a paid level of support.
- Comment on To make video games for Gen Z, be authentic 1 month ago:
If GenZ has a BS meter, it’s wired backwards.
- Comment on To make video games for Gen Z, be authentic 1 month ago:
Viralbility, memebility, social media and coop are the heart of it
So, ‘Authenticity’ really means ‘astroturfing’ in this context?
- Comment on I hear Quarry Junction is lovely this time of year! 1 month ago:
Not with that attitude Kif!
Assemble the men, we’re turning off clipping.
You’re right though, it’s a lot of cliff wall hugging or diverting to hidden valley.
- Comment on I hear Quarry Junction is lovely this time of year! 1 month ago:
There is a safe route through there though, multiple in fact.
- Comment on Xbox just revealed Gaming Copilot is coming to "current-generation consoles" later this year 1 month ago:
I’ll preface by saying I don’t think it’s a good idea, but-
Fallout TV Show (and friends) have brought a lot of new people to gaming that might have eschewed it before, a lot of those people have on idea what they’re doing in videogames.
An ‘AI assistant’ could help in a face-saving way (consider a 60 year old father who’s never played, and possibly chastised games in the past, is now getting into Fallout NV due to the TV show - asking their kids that they ridiculed about games would be embarrassing, but asking an AI may not be)
Basically, letting old people who hated videogames, play videogames.
- Comment on Crimson Desert's PS5 Physical Edition Won’t Run Without 48GB Day-One Download 1 month ago:
So it’s a “Game Key Disc”?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Well modding is out of the question then, so the game is a hard drop from me.
- Comment on Sony Faces $2.7 Billion UK Lawsuit Over PlayStation Store Monopoly Claims | TechPowerUp} 1 month ago:
No, go after them all.
I personally don’t think Valve is abusing a monopoly position, but it should be tested nonetheless.
Lootboxes and Gambling on the other hand, Gabe has a lot to answer for.
- Comment on The Helldivers 2 Community needs to get a fucking grip on itself 2 months ago:
I know I’ll never be trying or buying Helldivers after this, the community as a whole are just bad people who idolise Nazi imagery.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 2 months ago:
If it’s allowed to run Linux, it’ll be better than the Steam Machine.
Microslop, for their faults, actually does get custom hardware from AMD - Valve uses repurposed parts which is much cheaper for their smaller runs.
I think it’ll be fully locked down though, but if it’s not - i’d wager it’ll make a better Steam Machine than Steam Machine.