CosmoNova
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- Comment on Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream Sales Surpass 3.8 Million Copies | Nintendo Insider 3 days ago:
I mean duh, a game sells better when it‘s released on more platforms but I was shocked when I read the Switch 2 sold nearly 20 million units already. It has a better run than the Switch 1 in it‘s first year. People are buying it like sliced bread and the price increase makes total sense.
Funny thing though the average Switch 2 owner only bought 2 1/2 games for the console and many retailers are putting heavy discounts on them. The Switch 2 is a triumph for Nintendo but a net loss of retailers if we go by the current numbers.
All that being said it horrifies me what Nintendo will learn from all this. Their fans who spend so much money so carelessly on hardware are ruining the company for me. It will rain rereleases, remasters and remakes on the platform and I couldn‘t care less about any of those. Nintendo is at their best when they innovate but they don‘t have any reason to atm.
- Comment on Double Fine Is Unionizing 4 days ago:
At least they‘re going out with a bang! 🙏
- Comment on First Skywind progress video since 2024 4 days ago:
You will probably be able to play TES6 and the official remake of Morrowind in VR before this comes out.
- Comment on Valve Releases Steam Controller CAD Files Under Creative Commons License 5 days ago:
You would have to remodel the case based on the CAD files as they only contain the completely outside of the controller and the puck as combined meshes. They are useful as a reference and to model accessories such as a stand of example.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games: EU Parliament Hearing on the ‘Stop Destroying Videogames’ ECI 3 weeks ago:
You can‘t accuse corporations of murder!!! That‘s mean!!! Or something like that I suppose…
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke" 3 weeks ago:
Not very surprising. I remember one of the Warhorse head devs wearing a band shirt of a far right band while representing the studio and giving interviews. That caused quite a scandal in Germany‘s gaming community.
- Comment on Pickmon to Pickmos 4 weeks ago:
Competition is good for consumers. Well, most of the time. I welcome the current monster capture trend so as long as it‘s not f2p gacha slop.
- Comment on Please just stop 4 weeks ago:
I‘m fairly active on Twitch and must say this ‚problem‘ (if you can call it that) doesn‘t occur to me. May I suggest you get better taste in what you watch? The community reflects the Streamer after all.
- Comment on It seems that Valve is working on a "SteamGPT" feature that will apparently deal with Steam support issues and is somehow connected to Trust Score and CS2 anti-cheat 4 weeks ago:
You know this is totally on brand for Valve if you ever had the displeasure trying to reach out to their support.
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 5 weeks ago:
Oh, I‘m less of a big guy and more of a big fan of your work.
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 5 weeks ago:
Shitposters:
- 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:
It‘s sad really, because we always praise their efforts in our game group when another update drops. Like, we can barely fathom the devs still improving it and for that price!
It‘s baffling to hear other players have taken this gift from the devs as a free pass to criticize them endlessly. I guess they‘ve been spoiled too much? Seeing as the game is still sitting at a very good rating on Steam I guess it must be a tiny screaming minority.
Anyway, imagine how these players would react when the devs drop a banger DLC for 5 bucks. You would never hear the end of it.
- 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‘m always amazed by Peak‘s updates because they literally don‘t have to do it. Nobody is asking them to… except I now learn that some ungrateful players do, apparently. Like, I know it‘s not perfect and many of those QoL updates are deeply appreciated but for the price it was already a very good game. People need to learn to appreciate things. Seriously.
- Comment on We show you how NVIDIA RTX Remix can upgrade your classic games with Quake III - PAX East 2026 1 month ago:
That‘s funny because I firmly believe they showcased DLSS5 at that time in this state only to cover up news coverage about their Palantir partnership and passionate support for Israel. It was genius.
- Comment on Disney may be interested in acquiring Epic Games at some point, it’s claimed 1 month ago:
A bit late, isn‘t it? The saudis loaded it with debt and I doubt EA will exist for very long.
- Comment on Why are steam games a rip off in EUR or GBP? 1 month ago:
Same with Konami and Nintendo. Japanese game companies have very quickly made their stuff very expensive in the west while still launching somewhat affordable in their home country. I don‘t buy their new releases. They‘re out of their goddamn mind.
- Comment on "Summer 2026 is going to be amazing".. World Leaders: 1 month ago:
Only autocrats and fascist world leaders mind you.
- Comment on There's nothing 'euro' about 'eurojank,' says Stalker dev 1 month ago:
I think of Eurojank as a genre of an era that is long gone. Odd simulation games and janky indie hits come from all over the world these days while European games are critically acclaimed and steamroll award shows.
Eurojank is a nostalgic label. An afterthought. Like how the term Gothic architecture was slapped onto cathedrals later on. When I think of Eurojank I think of the late 90s to early 2010s.
And yes for every Eurojank game like Gothic you can probably find a US equivalent like Morrowind that is just as unpolished and raw. So this nostalgic cliché likely isn‘t even all that accurate. The dev has a point here. At least I think so.
- Comment on List of 3rd person shooter-3D platformer hybrids I know of (and looking for more) 1 month ago:
I really enjoyed Sunset Overdrive. The platforming mostly consists of skateboard-esque rail jumping that I actually enjoyed a lot.
- Comment on It's an unlimited plan 1 month ago:
No country is far away. Especially not on the internet. Like, from my perspective America is further away than China and there‘s a huge ocean between us. Still feel their influence in daily life. Distance doesn‘t matter.
- Comment on Capcom says it 'will not implement assets generated by AI into our game content,' but still plans to use AI to 'enhance efficiency and boost productivity' in game development 1 month ago:
They will use placeholders but none of these things will male them considerably more productive, I think. They use LLMs because managers got FOMO.
- Comment on To make video games for Gen Z, be authentic 1 month ago:
Sure but „GenZ!!!111oneleven“ in the title generates more clicks.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
We‘re getting Minecraft Dungeons II before we‘re getting Minecraft 2.
- Comment on What are your hallmark games? What games have shaped how you view games? 1 month ago:
Playing Minecraft multiplayer in 2010 blew me off my socks and I will never experience anything as intense as that, video game wise.
- Comment on ShitpostID: 4185519047 1 month ago:
Paying $14.99/month to Zucciberg corp isn‘t that much different than paying it to Edolph.
- Comment on So what's your take on Pokopia? 1 month ago:
Maybe I‘ll wait for the PC release to go on sale. Yeah, I know.
- Comment on ShitpostID: 4185519047 1 month ago:
Yeah but you still bought the blue checkmark, though.
- Comment on NVIDIA Says You're "Completely Wrong" About DLSS 5 Being Slop - Gamers Nexus 1 month ago:
There‘s also the concept of swarm intelligence in that a lot of people can beat for example a chess grandmaster by democratically voting for each move. This isn‘t super consistent but it happens. Of course tech CEOs claim AI is exactly that but it isn‘t. It doesn‘t make choices like a thousand people in a chess match do. It just rolls a dice and then does some math.
What I‘m trying to say is if 99% of potential costumers says it‘s crap, then it‘s a really really tough sell. To put it mildly. And the backlash from DLSS5 has been huge across the internet.
- Comment on NVIDIA Says You're "Completely Wrong" About DLSS 5 Being Slop - Gamers Nexus 1 month ago:
For me the silver lining is that only devs who are absolute hacks and produce overpriced crap would use this. I don‘t buy their games now and I won‘t buy their slop tomorrow. Personally I don‘t think it will be hard to dodge this for a very, very long time. The hardware to run this is unaffordable and development cycles are huge. This tech could be retro before I have to actually start maneuvering around it.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash 1 month ago:
Right? Todd couldn‘t make a decent game anymore, let alone a decent looking game if his life depended on it. It‘s no surprise he embraces slop. He‘s exactly the type of guy to believe the hype.