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skozzii, do games w Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’

Atleast this will radicalize the youth.

ModernRisk, do games w ‘If it’s the only place to play Mario, you buy it’: Former PlayStation boss reacts to $80 Nintendo games

Yeah, no. It is not the only place to play Mario. There’s emulation and Piracy. I’m quite certain skilled people will try to hack the Switch 2 and sooner or later there will be a Switch 2 emulation (although might take a while). €80-90 euro for one single game is nuts.

The only reason I would purchase a Switch 2 is when it is capable of being hacked.

slaneesh_is_right,

10 year old mario kart 8 is still like 70 bucks with the dlc. Why are people so shocked?

Buddahriffic,

Don’t forget the other obvious option: we don’t have to play mario. Also, there’s a used game market with a ton of older games and Nintendo doesn’t get a cent from that anymore.

WolfLink, do games w Nintendo Switch 2 GameCube controller is only compatible with GameCube games, Nintendo says

Huh? My actual GameCube controller works with all games on the Switch 1, although it doesn’t have all the buttons used by some games.

In particular it would be absurd if this new GameCube controller doesn’t work with Smash Ultimate.

Koen967, do games w Hades 2 will be a Nintendo Switch 2 console exclusive at launch

Does the Steam Deck count as a PC or as a console?

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

In this case, it counts as a PC, but given that you have to ask the question, I think that speaks volumes.

simple,

PC.

mj_marathon,

The dictionary definition of “console” would include the deck AND gaming PCs.

4am,

The line in bluring, but the Deck can run Windows if you want, it’s a PC stuffed into a controller (and that’s not a dig at it, either)

JakobFel,
@JakobFel@retrolemmy.com avatar

Both. The future isn’t in consoles, it’s in console-like PCs. Just wait until Valve drops the Fremont, I believe it’ll change absolutely everything.

ColdWater,
@ColdWater@lemmy.ca avatar

PC, because console has less games than PC

ianhclark510, do games w Switch 2 GameCube controller will only be offered to those who pre-order the console
@ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Nintendo is just dedicated to shooting themselves in the foot as hard as possible with this launch aren’t they?

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  • Viri4thus,

    Average reaction of a Nintendo fanboy to abuse:

    Step 1: this is expensive Nintendo: kawaiiiiii Step 2: shut up and take my money you cute souless overlord

    ianhclark510,
    @ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    You’re totally right

    Abnorc,

    They are the only real family oriented console AFAIK. At least on PC, there isn’t a huge emphasis on local coop. This makes a steam deck a harder sell to people just looking for the casual family games. Nintendo on the other hand is committed to releasing games like this with every generation, and they don’t seem big on games with a restrictive age rating. I’m sure that wins points with parents.

    I’d love to tell families that they should just buy a steam deck, but I don’t know if it’s the right choice TBH.

    einlander, do games w Katamari creator says he left Bandai Namco to develop games with people from other countries

    I hope it succeeds. A positive game about diversity and inclusion in this economy.

    CluckN, do games w Trump tariffs threaten the future of physical video games, analyst warns

    Once again gamers are the true oppressed class.

    paraphrand,

    PC Master Race

    chetradley,

    They targeted gamers.

    erin, do games w Rocksteady is back working on a single-player Batman game, it’s claimed | VGC
    @erin@social.sidh.bzh avatar

    Sad... Arkham Knight true ending was the perfect ending... No artistic reason to do another one, so the real (and bad) reason for that is:

    ♫ Money, money, money. Must be funny. In a rich man world ♫

    QuentinCallaghan, do gaming w Nintendo Switch 2 is reportedly getting two major Xbox games, including Halo [VGC]
    @QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz avatar

    20 years ago this would have been April fools.

    theangriestbird,

    i can see the Game Informer article now…

    altima_neo, do gaming w Ex-PlayStation boss says games should be shorter because development costs are ‘not sustainable’ [VGC]
    @altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

    Length has nothing to do with it. It’s all about the bullshit inflated budgets. They’re comes a point of diminishing returns with how many staff at working on a game, and how much is spent on marketing.

    Deceptichum, do games w Grasshopper CEO Suda51 says people ‘care too much’ about Metacritic scores

    I remember back in the 90s PC mags had the same issues, simple numerical ratings don’t mean shit.

    The only score I follow is Steams user satisfies rating thing. the top voted complaints or praises tell me more about the state of a game than anything else ever could.

    Dudewitbow,

    the advtage the steam system has is first the bought game/gifted game situation, as well as the more important factor, the recent opinion score, as at amy given momemt a game can get good because of a major change (e. g payday 2 reverting all the pay 2 win content the original publisher mandated) or gone to shit because of greed or a bad patch.

    the problem users have is finding a curator that has a similar taste in games that they do. If I was a fan of JRPGs, im not going to care about the opinion on some person who doesnt really play jrpgs. at the same time, if you like some niche genre, to the general public, that niche is always less popular, so itll get worse ratings thanit should compared to people who enjoy said niche.

    SweetCitrusBuzz, do gaming w Tony Hawk claims he is ‘talking to Activision again’ [VGC]
    @SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org avatar

    Noooo, don’t do it Tony. Activision are awful!

    FunderPants, do gaming w PS5 Pro announcement plans and console design have been leaked [VGC]

    No disk drive is no purchase from me. I even saved up the money to buy one, but I won’t without a disk drive.

    theangriestbird,

    i mean…you could always buy the add-on disc drive? Assuming that it is still compatible with the Pro, not sure why it wouldn’t be. They get to fleece physical media heads for an extra $80, that’s a win for Sony.

    sunzu2,

    Ehhh if most people don't care about the disk, then i guess good they don't need to pay for it. Reduce waste

    But i bougtht the console for the disk feature and use it as media center.

    FunderPants,

    I did not know that was a thing and I absolutely would buy one. Thank you.

    theangriestbird,

    awesome! just double-check that it’s compatible with the new one before dropping the extra $80! Nothing about the Pro is official yet, so we still gotta wait and see.

    BorgDrone,

    I bet that hardly anyone buys the add on drive and they use that as a reason to completely drop physical media support in the PS6.

    DdCno1,

    Why wouldn’t they? Something like 93℅ of game sales are digital already. Physical games are almost extinct.

    BorgDrone,

    Oh I agree they should. Physical game sales are a PITA.

    GrindingGears,

    Yeah I think we’ve learned by now that if you can’t touch it, you don’t own it. I’m tired of “leasing” software.

    Thistlewick,

    The kicker is that owning the disk entitles you to a piece of plastic, and not much more at the moment. When servers go down, or day one patches are no longer available, the disk becomes no better than a coaster for many modern games.

    GrindingGears,

    Yeah that’s a fair point. But you should still be able to play offline. I’m not much of an online gamer anyways.

    bigmclargehuge, do games w Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo
    @bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world avatar

    Yeah… i don’t understand why this is a good move. Sacrificing an element that would noticably improve a core aspect of the games design for the sake of not looking at a picture for a few seconds on startup? Seems completely backwards if you ask me.

    Norgur,

    You need to toake into account that we're talking about a Kirby game here, which are all 2/2.5/sometimes 3D platformers. So The real effect of Dolby in such a thing would have been close to zero.

    CaptDust,

    The context is Kirby Air Ride, a racing spinoff. Not that it changes much, but it is fully 3D and a genre that can take advantage of surround sound.

    the_artic_one, (edited )

    That came out on GameCube back when we were all still using composite cables that didn’t support surround anyway.

    Edit: Apparently I was misinformed, still KAR was such a casual arcadey game that I’m sure it got more benefit out of quick startup than it would have from surround support.

    Grangle1,

    Exactly. Until around 2005 with the advent of affordable HDTVs and the war between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, anything more than what came stock with your TV, which was usually standard definition picture and stereo sound, was something of a luxury. Sound bars were only really starting to become a popular thing.

    RightHandOfIkaros,

    This is not true at all and demonstrates a profound misunderstanding of how surround sound worked.

    Nintendo 64 games like Donkey Kong 64 and Conker’s Bad Fur Day supported surround sound. Even Star Fox on the SNES supported surround sound. All through composite cables.

    It works by encoding multiple channels into two channels, so it can then decode those channels to send the proper signal to the proper speaker. For Dolby specifically, you need a Pro Logic compatible receiver, which could decode that signal. If you don’t have a Pro Logic compatible receiver then you will only hear stereo output.

    the_artic_one,

    Well TIL.

    profound misunderstanding of how surround sound worked

    You got me, I didn’t know anyone who even owned a surround sound setup in the gamecube era.

    Norgur,

    oh, it was the racing game? I must have gone through the text too quickly then. Yet, if we're pragmatic: How many people would have really enjoyed that game (which wasn't stellar to begin with) more with properly encoded surround sound, and how many would have enjoyed it a tad less because of the annoying logo spam on startup? I don't think Surround-Sound-enjoyers were the target audience for that one.

    bigmclargehuge,
    @bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world avatar

    Yeah I did consider that when I made my comment. And keep in mind I do see where they’re coming from. It’s not like I’m calling them stupid for this decision. I personally just see it as a massive overcorrection for something that will, in the grand scheme, have virtually no effect on the quality of the game for literally anyone besides the person who made this decision.

    I know it’s not the best comparison, but to me it would be like if RTX support required an RTX logo, and a major studio just removed RTX from their game, not for any performance or quality issues, but solely for a logo. Again, it just seems like an overcorrection for a non-issue. I’ll admit, I sometimes get annoyed by intro logos, but never enough to the point where I’d think it’s worth removing features to get rid of them.

    Norgur,

    I got the impression that “removing” means removing before it was really implemented. Like, it was planned and decided upon, but it wasn't ready. He checked the license and went “nope, not having it” and scrapped the feature. It doesn't truly become clear in the text, of course, but that's how I read this.

    RightHandOfIkaros,

    You realize this is Lemmy, and on Lemmy you have to hate every business and every product produced by a business apparently, right? If it isn’t FOSS, then you aren’t allowed to like it.

    ryven,
    @ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    This is Sakurai’s explanation, and it seems reasonable to me:

    “I feel very sorry for making the user wait,” he explained. “If you take one second from each user, that means you’ll be taking 10,000 seconds from 10,000 people. The more this repeats over the years, the more time you will cause players to lose."

    IzzyScissor,

    I remember one of l Hank Green’s older videos when he added up all the viewtime from all of their videos and realized it was longer than the average human lifespan. Of course, he immediately framed it as “We’ve killed a man!”

    DaseinPickle, do games w EU says it’s investigating why Apple terminated Epic’s developer account

    Apple really needs to hire some grown ups.

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