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demizerone, do games w Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2

Nintendo doesn’t give AF about poor people.

v4ld1z,

I’d wager most video game companies don’t

samus12345,

No for-profit company does as they don’t get money from them. This is not caring about anyone who’s not wealthy.

accretion,

Why would they? Not saying it’s right, but there’s literally zero motivation for them to focus on people who can’t buy their products. They are a luxury good.

They are a company who exists to make money, not entertain us, despite that being what they say (in order to sell more). Them, and ever other for profit company in the world.

Critical_Thinker,

They aren’t your friends, they don’t care about you - they care about the money in your pocket.

They know they are too big to fail, so they are gonna raise prices 50% no problem.

ampersandrew, do games w Japan's prime minister is mad about Assassin's Creed Shadows where players can destroy the contents of religious sites
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

I also heard your mom hates Dead Space 2.

breakingcups, do games w Japan's prime minister is mad about Assassin's Creed Shadows where players can destroy the contents of religious sites

God forbid there’s something important to worry about

doggle, do games w Intel Arc B580 'Battlemage' GPU announced - 1440p Ultra gaming for $249

Sick. I got an a770le when they launched. Buggy AF, but not bad performance when it decided to work. It currently lives as a dedicated av1 encoder in a Plex server

RedAggroBest, do gaming w Ubisoft monetization director blames gamers, says they've been exposed as 'non-decent humans'

A more accurate description of the situation is that a broken clock is right twice a day as he validly complains about racists sending hate to his employees.

thingsiplay, do gaming w Ubisoft monetization director blames gamers, says they've been exposed as 'non-decent humans'
ramsgrl909, do games w Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford says his hopes on Epic Store were 'overly optimistic or misplaced'

There was a point I tried to switch to Epic, just to try it out - it is so unbelievably slow & oddly hard to find and organize my own games. They NEED to start putting $$ into the UI otherwise all those free games are for nothing if idetest opening the client itself.

I_Has_A_Hat, do gaming w Black Myth: Wukong is one of the best-selling games of all time

Is it any good gameplay wise?

rickyrigatoni,

The people I personally know say it’s great but feels like a boss rush with very short paths to boss rooms.

AWistfulNihilist, (edited )

It’s decent, extremely boss heavy, very linear. But the story is well done and it looks and feels good to play. If you’ve recently played Elden Ring tho, the terrain is going to feel like prison bars to you, very little exploration despite looking like you should be able to explore.

If you aren’t into souls like type games, wait for a sale. Reviews critical about the gameplay are mostly right.

UprisingVoltage,

It’s a good action with some souls mechanics (not a soulslike though), crazy good graphics, bosses and enemy variety. Should also be decently optimized for pc

Plot wise is basically a fan sequel of Journey to the west. If you aren’t familiar with that don’t expect to understand shit about what’s going on.

The only real tangible issue is mediocre map design (very simplistic and linear) and (some say) some balancing issues.

In short, if you enjoy 3d actions and/or souls you’ll probably have you money’s worth.

SplashJackson,

I liked Journey to the West, it was really funny for a thousand-plus-year-old book, but didn’t they all die at the end? Or rather, ascend to Buddhahood?

AWistfulNihilist,

The games opening cut scene addresses this, was pretty good

UprisingVoltage,

Yeah. The game’s incipit is (spoilers ??? Literally the first five minutes of the game) >!Wukong just wants to chill on his mountains, but the other gods fear him and kick his ass. Decades, centuries or maybe millennia has passed, and now you, a monke from his village (arguably his reincarnation), are tasked with finding a way to reawaken him!<

SplashJackson,

Ah yeah I remember he came from a monkey tree, like the song! Or perhaps it was a mountain

QuandaleDingle, do games w Google discussed teaming up with Tencent to buy Epic Games

AWW HELL NAH. 😤 This bettah not happen.

ThePantser, do games w Stardew Valley creator says he might make Stardew Valley 2

How about he add multiplayer to mobile already so I can play with my family without having to break out the laptops or steam links.

Paradox, do games w Xbox CEO: Consoles are a 'good, established business' and a 'really healthy part' of Game Pass
@Paradox@lemdro.id avatar

Then why are you treating us like second class citizens?

NOT_RICK,
@NOT_RICK@lemmy.world avatar

How so?

Paradox, (edited )
@Paradox@lemdro.id avatar

Updates that fix bugs come to PC far earlier than Xbox sometimes never coming at all. Games, when not on gamepass, even from Microsoft, are typically cheaper on other platforms. And sometimes they just don’t even put content on the Xbox

Last fall was halo 2’s 20th anniversary. If you only played Xbox, you could have forgotten it. Microsoft did nothing on the Xbox about it. But on PC, they promoted the released E3 demo levels

Finally there’s the lack of investment in any hardware upgrades. The controllers still use the same crap alps stick modules, the vibration is still two big dumb motors, and the buttons are still just graphite pads on a PCB. Even on the $200 elite controllers. There’s no single channel wireless headset available first party, just stereo ones, and the add on storage still remains horrifically overpriced years later

TwinTitans, do games w Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2
@TwinTitans@lemmy.world avatar

So sounds like a public library check out.

morphballganon, do games w Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2

I have the Wii U version, and I don’t plan to replay it… on any console.

inclementimmigrant, do games w Nintendo president responds to Switch 2 price increase fears amid Trump tariff fallout

So something that I wonder about with the MSRP is how much of that is a Nvidia tax that inflated the price? The Nvidia GPU market has been so absolutely screwed by Nvidia’s lack of competition pricing model.

NuXCOM_90Percent,

nVidia genuinely does not care about gaming. It is just a way to have a few extra bins to increase effective yields for their datacenter/AI chips. If Nintendo wants to buy in bulk they’ll sell in bulk. And if Nintendo doesn’t like nVidia’s prices they can talk to AMD… like the other consoles did. Jensen will just sell those chips as mobile devices or cars or whatever.

Most speculation was around 400 USD for the switch itself for the given specs, tooling, etc. The Steam Deck is a different process but their LCD model is pretty indicative. 450 was a bump that would account for economic uncertainty and give them room to drop back down for regular discounts and the like.

Then trump trumped the bed and the previously expected buffer zone just isn’t enough. Which is why we are seeing the massive price hike.

Armok_the_bunny,

Backwards compatibility means they might not be able to talk to AMD unfortunately, depending on how the software is set up I’d assume.

NuXCOM_90Percent,

I and many people with a Cool PS2 can attest that AMD hardware has no problems running Switch games.

Armok_the_bunny,

Never heard of that, I assume it’s an emulator. Emulation is different from running a game natively. Yeah, Nintendo probably could get AMD hardware to work as a replacement for Nvidia hardware, but I would guess either compatibility would be imperfect, there would be a performance hit, or both.

Virkkunen,
@Virkkunen@fedia.io avatar

Switch 2 emulates Switch 1 games, so being Nvidia or AMD doesn't really matter there

PieMePlenty,

Business to business is different than the consumer market. Nintendo comes to Nvidia and orders a custom product with a minimum order of 10 million chips, Nvidia wants that deal. They aren’t going to arbitrarily increase the price because they can because Nintendo can and will move to another vendor. Nvidia wouldn’t risk fucking up a long-standing relationship like that, especially since Nintendo is a repeat customer, and they can rely on repeat business from them each year. These are long standing relationships that don’t just fall apart that quickly unless one party wants to drastically change what they are doing.

_sideffect, do games w GTA 6 will have a 'significant online mode' to generate revenue for years into the future

This game is looking less fun every day

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