Thaurin

@Thaurin@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Working on Handheld Console for PS5 Games to Rival Switch [Bloomberg]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Switch sold almost fifty times more in its lifetime. Do you expect the Steam Deck 2 to teach those sales numbers? I mean, it would be a miracle for Valve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Working on Handheld Console for PS5 Games to Rival Switch [Bloomberg]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, the Switch has sold over 146 million units by now. Sales numbers for the Steam Deck aren’t public, but I’d estimate them around 3 or 4 million at most. That is a big difference.

  For comparison, the PSP sold 80 million. Even the PS Vita sold 15 or 16 million. The biggest seller among handhelds is still the NDS at 154 million.

  Of course, these handhelds have been in stores for a lot longer than the Steam Deck, but those numbers are a lot bigger!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Working on Handheld Console for PS5 Games to Rival Switch [Bloomberg]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh. Steam Deck will have to up its game significantly if it wants to be in the same ballpark as Switch. It’s a little baby compared to Switch sakes, not even close.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex developer at Bethesda quit his job after 14 years and made this heavy metal horror game as a solo dev with no publisher⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you must be doing something wrong. Proton has been able to play pretty much everything without unsupported anti-cheat for a long while now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games popularized certain mechanics?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember having a GeForce 2 as well. Yes, I was really into graphics actions that time. :) Ever since Wolfenstein 3D, or DooM, to be honest.

  Colored lighting in Unreal for the first time!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games popularized certain mechanics?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ohhhh! I think the Riva TNT was my first 3D accelerated graphics card!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games popularized certain mechanics?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is correct. I remember running Quake II in software mode with hardware effects (could that have been OpenGL already?). It ran at like 1 frames per second, because I didn’t have a 3D graphics card. Although the lighting looked lovely when you shot a rocket through a hallway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Behold, Diablo is fully playable in your browser⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see, I guess you’re right then. :) Maybe this was a major release then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Behold, Diablo is fully playable in your browser⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the WASM project diabloweb of DevilitionX has not been around for five years?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does it seem odd to track my lifespan?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Whatever works for you man. Screw what anyone thinks about what you do. Do your thing.