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- Comment on Electronic Arts to Cut 400 Jobs, Shut Down BioWare 9 hours ago:
Well, the TV show isn’t done by Bioware.
- Comment on Electronic Arts to Cut 400 Jobs, Shut Down BioWare 10 hours ago:
It’s E.A.!
- Comment on Report: Microsoft explored selling or spinning off Xbox division after Phil Spencer's exit 19 hours ago:
That one is always misleading. It’s a known Japanese corporate move.
Doesn’t make it misleading, it is something that happened. I never read Sony did this before. Which other company did that, other than Nintendo?
But, it actually does nothing financially, and usually none of the money saved goes anywhere.
Where do you get that?
Their revenue could collapse and they could lose money for a decade and still not reach bankruptcy.
Not true. Nintendo has huge pile of money in reserve. Otherwise they couldn’t have survived the devastating Wii U.
It is what actually has been protecting Nintendo from their failures.
So because it saves Nintendo from their failures, does mean its misleading to write articles that Nintendo did it?
They still exploit and abuse employees just like every other Japanese corporation.
In what way and where did you got that? Are there reports about Nintendo doing it?
- Comment on Report: Microsoft explored selling or spinning off Xbox division after Phil Spencer's exit 23 hours ago:
When did Nintendo do mass layoffs? Nintendo is just not in a position where they buy lot of companies, then mass layoff (or cut salary in halve) when a game does disappoint. So you are right that it won’t happen today, but for different reasons. I’m convinced that they would probably take a hit themselves, instead laying off huge part of their developers. This is one of the few things I actually like about Nintendo; and overall I don’t like Nintendo anymore. The mass layoffs issue is a Western world phenomenon mostly (but not exclusively, just a tendency).
- Comment on Report: Microsoft explored selling or spinning off Xbox division after Phil Spencer's exit 23 hours ago:
Depends on what Big Tech and how big it is means to you. If we speak about the biggest tech companies ruling the world, then Nintendo isn’t it. But Nintendo is in my opinion big and a tech company. I mean even Netflix can count as big tech company, depending on the definition, and they are not as big nor do they something different than video streaming: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tech
- Comment on The Magic: The Gathering Machine Go BRRR As It Makes $600 Million In Three Months 1 day ago:
Ah, it’s about that money printing sound. Well thanks, I really never understood the reference before.
- Comment on The Magic: The Gathering Machine Go BRRR As It Makes $600 Million In Three Months 1 day ago:
Go BRRR
What does that even mean?
- Comment on Report: Microsoft explored selling or spinning off Xbox division after Phil Spencer's exit 1 day ago:
I don’t think Nintendo operates like that: cnbc.com/…/nintendo-ceo-once-halved-salary-to-pre…
- Comment on GTA 6 Digital Preorders Already Topped 6 Million and $594 Million, With PlayStation Accounting for 74%, Sensor Tower Estimates 1 day ago:
The PC was the best version. Not every hardware and software was as much buggy, and maybe you just didn’t do out of the box stuff that would trigger more issues. Just guessing here. It was mostly a catastrophe on the last gen consoles (PS4 and XBOne).
- Comment on GTA 6 Digital Preorders Already Topped 6 Million and $594 Million, With PlayStation Accounting for 74%, Sensor Tower Estimates 1 day ago:
How can it not? For most people, it will be a newer and better GTA 5. And that’s all it needs to be. From the looks of it, it seems to even surpass that expectation. Maybe lot of people will be disappointed in the beginning, but only because they don’t know the entire game yet. It this does not turn out to be a Cyberpunk 2077, then based on Rockstars track record, we can expect them to deliver.
- Comment on GTA 6 Digital Preorders Already Topped 6 Million and $594 Million, With PlayStation Accounting for 74%, Sensor Tower Estimates 1 day ago:
Why do people pre-order digital download-only games again?
- Comment on Is the 3DS worth purchasing despite it being "obsolete" today? 2 days ago:
Another good point I didn’t think of before. Glad I asked.
- Comment on Is the 3DS worth purchasing despite it being "obsolete" today? 2 days ago:
I personally prefer emulation if its good too. And yes, some features would be a reason to do it, I didn’t think about those. To me emulating 3DS was always a hassle that the only solution I saw was using original hardware to play the games. Now that you brought it up, I can see it. Also the price is true too. I don’t think it will go down, if anything, in future it might be more rare and go up.
Good points.
- Comment on Is the 3DS worth purchasing despite it being "obsolete" today? 2 days ago:
To anyone thinking about buying a 3DS: If you like the form factor and if you’re not opposed to emulation, I’d suggest you look at some dual-screen Android handhelds like the Anbernic RG DS, Retroid Pocket Duo, or Ayn Thor.
Why would you? My argumentation is, if you like the form factor and want to play 3DS games, why emulate it rather than playing it native on original hardware? Just hack to jailbreak the 3DS. I think it plays DS games as well? Unless you want to emulate other systems such as PSP in example.
- Comment on Is the 3DS worth purchasing despite it being "obsolete" today? 2 days ago:
I would say yes. Emulating the 3DS is a bit wonky experience depending on many factors and where you emulate it, mainly because of screen input methods, and to some extend the 3D effect and microphone. I would only recommend to buy a 3DS if you plan on hack to jailbreak it. Because you cannot buy new games from the anymore, and you won’t lose the ability to play carts anyway. But you gain the ability to play ROMs on it as if it was a cartridge.
- Comment on What If Video Games Came on VHS? One Modder Is Finding Out 4 days ago:
Machine code or BASIC possibly? I remember PC magazines hat sometimes BASIC games printed. At that time I didn’t own any sort of computer, so was always curious what that even was. I don’t remember seeing any machine code, but at that time everything was machine code for me.
- Comment on What If Video Games Came on VHS? One Modder Is Finding Out 4 days ago:
What is turbo loading?
I just had an idea what the old generations could have done to load games faster. If you buy multiple cassettes and readers, then connect them to master device (to start and stop with a single button), and load them all at once from different positions. Basically hardware level multi-threaded loading if you will. I mean cutting the loading in half would be a huuge improvement already. Would this have been possible?
- Comment on What If Video Games Came on VHS? One Modder Is Finding Out 4 days ago:
You can have cassette images on your NVMe and SSD drives. :D In an emulator they load basically instantly (if the emulator supports such functionality to load them quickly). In example C64 cassettes load basically in an instant, instead 20 minutes.
- Comment on What If Video Games Came on VHS? One Modder Is Finding Out 4 days ago:
Ah, I see how this works in this tape system. I thought it would load everything into memory and then play it, like those old cassette tapes. But looks like its similar to those full motion CD and Laserdisc games.
- Comment on What If Video Games Came on VHS? One Modder Is Finding Out 4 days ago:
I have yet to read the article. My first thought is, that we had videogames on tape already, like those audio tapes. Now I personally never interacted with such device, but my friend told me and off course I have emulation with dumps of games that were on tape. It’s like having the game on disc, but loads extremely slow before game can be started.
I will read the article and may or may not add more comments. Love these topics.
- Comment on How important is owning your own video games to you? 4 days ago:
I’m okay with owning a license to the game, rather than physical media. But I want to own it, in the sense that the companies cannot take my license rights away and that I can resell the license. And it should even work if the company or servers go away. Funny enough NFTs (Non-fungible token: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-fungible_token ) would have solved this issue. Although it does not solve the issue with inactive servers, at least a specific license to a game could be owned.
- Comment on Sony is losing exclusives as their games get ported to PC with AI 5 days ago:
I watched the film. But the source doesn’t matter to our discussion. I talk about the statement on its own with context to our discussion. It doesn’t matter to me who said it. I was very clear about this.
- Comment on Sony is losing exclusives as their games get ported to PC with AI 5 days ago:
I never agreed with it in all context I read it. I can’t disagree with a context I never read. I don’t know why you make it this complicated. I simply do not agree with it. Nothing to discuss about it.
- Comment on Sony is losing exclusives as their games get ported to PC with AI 5 days ago:
The context does not matter for our discussion. I evaluate the quote by itself, not as a quote, but as a standalone statement. There is nothing wrong with that approach. Why? Because the quote is used in context of OUR discussion, not in context of the film. It is applied as reasoning to our topic that has nothing to do with the film or its origin. And I disagree with that reasoning.
I don’t know how to explain it else.
- Comment on Sony is losing exclusives as their games get ported to PC with AI 5 days ago:
As said, I don’t care where the quote comes from and what reasons they present in 2 hour movie. I apply the logic of the quote to the discussion we have here, and decided to not agree. It is my personal opinion independent from the film. BTW I watched the film too.
- Comment on Sony is losing exclusives as their games get ported to PC with AI 5 days ago:
The source of the quote actually doesn’t matter to me. I judge the quote itself.
- Comment on Sony is losing exclusives as their games get ported to PC with AI 5 days ago:
Yeah, this is really annoying and tiring. Especially multiplayer live service games are designed in a way that you have no time to play anything else.
- Comment on Sony is losing exclusives as their games get ported to PC with AI 5 days ago:
Little offtopic incoming:
“when everyone’s special; no one will be.”
I never agreed with this statement. If everyone is special, then everyone is. In example in game Overwatch everyone has special abilities and are nothing alike anyone else. Everyone is a specialist in their own field. Everyone is special.
- Comment on Sony is losing exclusives as their games get ported to PC with AI 5 days ago:
I think the replies about “Emulation is not a port” misses your point. That’s why you put it in quotes as ‘ported’.
But besides that, some official “ports” from game companies are also just emulation. They do not port the game code, but they port the game over this way, in the sense of making it playable.
- Comment on Sony is losing exclusives as their games get ported to PC with AI 5 days ago:
With that logic, Nintendo doesn’t have any exclusives too. Maybe besides Switch 2, but that console losing exclusives too.