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DefiantBidet, do games w Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo

User experience over marketing.

RightHandOfIkaros,

Honestly, 5.1 surround sound is worth waiting the extra like 2 seconds of the logo. The fact that the game only has mono or stereo sound output just because he didn’t want to have a logo on the screen for a few seconds is not putting user experience over marketing.

It would honestly make more sense that Nintendo told him he couldn’t add it because they didn’t want to pay for it and this is how he justified it to himself.

ChicoSuave,

Most households have a TV with TV speakers, only capable of L/R. Why pay money and have people sit through a corporate short film for a feature most won’t use?

RightHandOfIkaros,

Its two seconds for the benefit of 5.1, so the people that have it can benefit. And the people that don’t can upgrade later.

theareciboincident,

The problem people have with your argument is not the existence of 5.1 surround sound.

Nor is it that the vast majority of households can’t afford a properly tuned surround sound setup instead of haphazardly throwing speakers around which arguably creates a worse experience than stereo.

It’s that the Dolby implementation requires publishers to license it and pay for an unstoppable ad that plays before every session, while benefitting only the petit bourgeois.

Notice how you reverted so quickly to your capitalist brainwashing. May be a good inspiration to see what other ideologies have been implanted into you.

RightHandOfIkaros,

It is two seconds.

essteeyou,

Not only is it just 2 seconds, but it’s 2 seconds while the game is no doubt being loaded into memory while it plays anyway.

This is like whining about the Pixar animation that plays before all of their movies (for much longer than 2 seconds).

RightHandOfIkaros,

I would understand the complaint if it was longer, like 5 or 7 seconds long for just the Dolby logo. But its not.

Like, if seeing a logo for two seconds bothers you that much, better close your eyes when driving riding the bus walking around town, otherwise you might see a dreaded billboard or advertisement.

gamermanh,

Gonna just completely ignore that said 2s is otherwise unneeded so you can feel like you still have a point, hm?

Seeing an ad while walking does not require me to stop what I’m doing and wait for the ad. Putting an unstoppable ad in your pre-game logo does

RightHandOfIkaros,

Loading screens in a game take longer than two seconds and don’t have the benefit of running one time before the game starts and adding surround sound support. So you would rather be greeted with a black screen as a game with less features loads instead?

Great idea.

essteeyou,

People in this thread don’t want to waste 2 seconds per use of a video game on a logo screen, but will happily waste the day discussing it.

grrgyle,

Absolutely

essteeyou,

The irony of not wanting to “waste time” when you’re about to play a video game, too.

grrgyle,

That’s me time, not dolby time

gamermanh,

Discussing it provides entertainment value of some degree

Seeing a logo for 2 seconds does not

You guys cant actually be that fucking stupid, right?

RightHandOfIkaros,

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  • gamermanh,

    Yet you keep replying, how funny

    essteeyou,

    Hey, let’s not resort to name calling.

    gamermanh,

    I didn’t, I insulted their intelligence by insinuating that I didn’t believe they were as intelligent as they are

    essteeyou,

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  • gamermanh,

    Don’t really care, honestly.

    Still not name calling.

    RightHandOfIkaros,

    It is actually unreal to be downvoted for saying this. What a place to be.

    sudo,

    Yeah. It’s called principles. Maybe when your corporate overlords have some for sale you’ll be and to afford them.

    Khanzarate,

    My state banned billboards for the same reasons.

    It’s a really good reminder when I’m ever in another state that things like that just… Aren’t needed.

    The advertising thing is a slippery slope, and it’s OK for people to draw the line for how far down the slope they’re willing to go higher up than you would. It’s also OK that your line comfortably holds a 2-second ad.

    No position here is unreasonable, and everyone should keep that in mind.

    missingno,
    @missingno@kbin.social avatar

    Gamecube doesn't have enough RAM to preload everything at startup like that, you have to go through the menus and pick a game mode and map to load.

    Surely if it needed that startup load anyway, then Sakurai wouldn't be saying he turned the license down in order to get players in the game faster. I'm going to trust Sakurai's word here!

    essteeyou, (edited )

    Sure, and the Spectrum ZX I used to use 35 years ago had even less. The GameCube is ancient history, it’s not the benchmark for a reasonable amount of memory for anyone.

    Edit: apologies, I forgot we were talking specifically about a GameCube game.

    morphballganon,

    Per use.

    I strongly prefer 0 seconds.

    Signtist,

    Negative change worms it’s way in through small defeats. The first DLC’s were a small price for a lot of content, the first YouTube ads were only a single ad that was just a few seconds long, the first video game preorders came with amazing rewards, etc. When you allow for 2 seconds, then what’s 3 seconds? What’s 4, 5, 6? What’s 30 seconds? What’s 2 minutes? We’ve seen examples of this all throughout capitalism’s history; to ignore them is, well, ignorant.

    missingno,
    @missingno@kbin.social avatar

    Bear in mind that Kirby Air Ride came out in 2003, on a console that's only meant to be hooked up to CRTs. How many users back then do you think would've had access to this feature in the first place? Or would still be playing this game if/when they upgrade later?

    RightHandOfIkaros,

    It was uncommon, but not so uncommon that it didn’t warrant being added to the game. Especially when Dolby was handing out licenses like candy apparently. I would imagine it was cheap to get a license, and would make some sense why Air Ride wouldn’t have it. Air Ride is my favorite Kirby game, but even I recognize that Air Ride is probably one of the lowest budget Kirby games.

    englislanguage,

    That sounds a bit as if you were saying: The plebs shall wait for the joy of the wealthy.

    hoshikarakitaridia,
    @hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world avatar

    So many assumptions here.

    Let me refute them through educated guesses.

    • most people don’t have anything other than stereo
    • most people don’t want anything other than stereo
    • not everyone has the money to even get a decent TV, let alone 5.1 or God forbid 7.1
    • Kirby does not focus an people with high end playback devices. It’s traditionally a kids game.
    • 2secs Everytime you open the game can add up and be really annoying. Especially for kids, which are the core audience.
    BorgDrone,

    So because some people have a crappy home theater setup everyone should have a crappy experience?

    bitfucker,

    From the pareto principle it can be said that if the cost for adding a feature for the little percentage of users is quite high, it is not worth it.

    grrgyle,

    Hey my setup’s great, I just don’t need 5.1 surround sound that bad

    BorgDrone,

    Without at least 5.1, why even bother playing games or watching movies?

    grrgyle,

    Now you’re just playing

    BorgDrone,

    Sound is at least as important to the experience as the picture. Go watch a scary movie with the sound muted and you’ll notice it’s not scary at all.

    Playing a game or watching a movie with just 2.0 audio, or worse: using the TV’s built-in speakers, is such a diminished experience that you might as well not bother.

    grrgyle,

    IMO

    Watching a movie with 5.1: great

    Watching a movie with 2.0: great

    Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s cool, and I find good sound design at least as important as good visuals. It’s all part of the aesthetics package. One of my fondest media memories is watching Jurassic Park at a relative’s house with the sounds of the raptors coming from speakers all around. I even spent great expense setting up my own 5.1 setup.

    But I’ve been chasing this dragon for too long. Audiovisual fidelity doesn’t move the needle for me anymore (pardon the metaphor overload). I no longer feel the need to have my media reach out and immerse me - if it’s good, I can do the work and use my imagination to get lost in the fantasy

    Soggy,

    Imagine consuming media with speakers rather than high-end OEMs to shut out all outside sound. Might as well just read books in a crowded café.

    BorgDrone,

    Imagine not being able to feel explosions in your gut because you have a pair of tiny speakers strapped to your head instead of a big long-throw woofer moving air.

    Soggy,

    Sorry I’ll be explicit: I’m making fun of how pretentious you sound and can’t take anything you say here seriously. I actually agree that a monster sound system can greatly enhance a movie or game experience, but the difference depends on the specific media. I saw Fury Road three times in the theater because I knew my home system would never match the experience. Something like Star Trek TNG or My Cousin Vinny or, as the topic of this post, Kirby’s Air Ride hinges far less on the audio quality to deliver the intended content. Gatekeeping enjoyment behind speakers makes you a colossal ass.

    Emerald,

    Who games on a 5.1 surround setup?

    hark, (edited )
    @hark@lemmy.world avatar

    Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. This is a significant enough feature that a couple seconds is really not a big deal. There are likely time-wasters just as long, if not longer, elsewhere in the game and they do not contribute a much richer audio experience. While I’d love to minimize time wasting as much as possible, this is something that appears once on boot-up while I’m sure there are other time-wasters that appear multiple times while you’re playing the game. If they’re even a fraction of a second, they will quickly add up more than this logo’s time.

    Donald Knuth has a great quote on this: “The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.”

    RightHandOfIkaros,

    Because Lemmy hates everything that isn’t FOSS. The more time I spend here, the more I see that it is no better than Reddit.

    essteeyou,

    Don’t like it? Write your own equivalent and selfhost it using my favorite distro. /s

    RightHandOfIkaros,

    Exactly. This place sucks just as bad as Reddit, and the only reason I don’t go back to Reddit is out of principle.

    pleb_maximus,

    Cry moar!

    englislanguage,

    Nope. It’s just an unnecessary label which provides no additional features, i.e. no benefits. You can have Dolby sound without the Dolby label.

    hark,
    @hark@lemmy.world avatar

    The title states “Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo” presumably because you actually cannot have Dolby sound without the logo. Yes, technically you could, but it’s likely part of the license agreement and so him refusing to display the logo as outlined by the license means he couldn’t use Dolby sound in the game (or would get sued if he went ahead and did it anyway).

    dditty,

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  • RightHandOfIkaros,

    You can downvote me too, I don’t really care about imaginary numbers. No need to apologize.

    I am just disappointed that Lemmy was supposed to be a better place than Reddit, but my experience on Lemmy has actually become worse than my experience on Reddit.

    slaacaa,

    You say you don’t go on reddit out of principle. Now can’t you understand someone not wanting users sit through a 2 second pointless marketing animation, out of a similar principle?

    Soggy,

    Find an instance that more closely aligns with your ideals then. Lemmy is not one place.

    kratoz29,
    @kratoz29@lemm.ee avatar

    You can downvote me too, I don’t really care about imaginary numbers. No need to apologize.

    You care enough to be bothered with Lemmy.

    I am just disappointed that Lemmy was supposed to be a better place than Reddit, but my experience on Lemmy has actually become worse than my experience on Reddit.

    I mean, at least this can be fixed, you can’t really fix Reddit.

    And I think we still have a better experience on Lemmy than Reddit, for starters we don’t have ads here wink.

    TBH I agree with you, 2 secs doesn’t seem like a big deal to me, especially when many other awesome games implement it, but that could also be because I have been desensitized from the daily ads of my life (it used to be worse, I have an ad blocker for anything, but I still use open TV as a background noise and there are some other advertisements you can’t just evade).

    I agree with the statement up here that when we allow these 2 secs it lets the path open for more annoying stuff in the future, but also it is ultimately a decision from Nintendo to continue the deal with them if it is annoying enough for most users.

    RightHandOfIkaros,

    I don’t care about the number. The frustration comes from people that act exactly as Redditors do. Lemmy users in this thread insulting and name calling, etc. I don’t care about the insults themselves (which are against communit rules), the fact that Lemmy was supposed to be “a better place” and yet the exact same crap is happening is what is disappointing.

    Reddit is equally as fixable as Lemmy. Just because the primary owner of Reddit is a shareholder and the primary developer of Lemmy is a communist doesn’t make it easier for either to do anything. The fundamental problem is the users, the people hiding behind anonymity. They can be the absolute worst garbage being because they’re anonymous, instead of just being a decent human. Changing that people isntantly go to that rather than a kind human is the only real way to fix it, and in that regard Lemmy can never be fixed just like Reddit can never be fixed.

    Lemmy was not always like this. But since about 7 or 8 months ago, it became this way. And there is no going back.

    kratoz29,
    @kratoz29@lemm.ee avatar

    Lemmy was not always like this. But since about 7 or 8 months ago, it became this way. And there is no going back.

    Well, are we gonna ignore where the biggest influx of ppl comes from?

    I’d say don’t take it too personal if other ppl think differently than you, I think this is the healthiest approach we all can take (especially when we are discussing hobbies).

    This stopped being a matter of Lemmy vs Reddit, you can’t really fix Internet people, and that is to be expected.

    altima_neo,
    @altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

    Two issues though. Sakurai was taking about how he likes the ability to jump from game to game at an arcade and jump straight into the game. But a lot of console games had you go through intros, menus, tutorials, etc. And he didn’t like that, hence why he was saying he’d rather not have an extra logo screen to click through

    The second issue was that the game in question was a GameCube game. It only outputs in stereo. Surround sound wasnt a common thing in games at the time. It would have been the old school Dolby Surround/Pro Logic II encoding. Most gaming setups didn’t have surround sound receivers or sound bars yet. Also, it’s a Kirby game. The target audience wouldn’t have cared

    hark,
    @hark@lemmy.world avatar

    The arcade experience is fundamentally different from the console experience. Arcade games are generally crafted to eat quarters and kick players off as soon as possible without making them feel ripped off. Jumping in and out of games is common at arcades. While it’s nice to save that couple of seconds on a console game, it’s not something that adds up a lot unless you’re jumping between games a few minutes at a time, which again, is more like an arcade and doesn’t make as much sense in a console gaming context because you generally have a better idea of what games you own and want to play.

    As for the second issue, if it was a feature that wasn’t worthwhile and that nobody cared about, then why was he considering it in the first place? There are many technical details in games that exist that casual players don’t pay attention to, but subconsciously would enjoy. Surround sound adds quite a bit to a racing game, considering that the entire game is about racing against other characters that are positioned all around you.

    dQw4w9WgXcQ,

    The perception of delay is a lot larger for a single initial delay than a lot of smaller delays within the game. It’s very noticable if a game takes 20 seconds to get past the intro screens, while it is barely noticeable if a quarter of a second of delay is added to the loading between each level, even if it adds up to a lot more than the initial loading screen.

    Considering that the use of 5.1 surround would be a very rare case for the target aidience, I find the choice of dropping it to be excellent to enhance the experience.

    hark,
    @hark@lemmy.world avatar

    Perception plays a huge role, that’s true, but I guess we’re just going to have to agree to disagree since it’s ultimately subjective.

    sigmaklimgrindset,

    If it was money thing, couldn’t he just say “I needed as much coin as I could scrape up to get Sora from Disney” like he basically said with the last wave of DLC characters?

    Maybe it’s my nostalgia glasses, but this is something I actually believe coming from Sakurai. The man almost hates useless ads as much as Lemmy users.

    grrgyle,

    Nah, not for me anyway

    utopiah,

    Except the 2 are not causally related. One can have 5.1 without the logo or, even worst, the waiting time.

    Zacryon,

    Yepp. Surround sound is not tied to Dolby.

    altima_neo,
    @altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

    Here’s an example of the Dolby logo from another GameCube game that offered surround.

    youtu.be/cE4KVPJYLCo

    Kusimulkku,

    GREAT game

    Rai,

    Is that the whole thing? I thought it would be a long screen with JUST Dolby. That’s like two seconds and has other credits on it. I don’t understand folks’ rage over that.

    Nurse_Robot, do games w Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered has a warning about racial and ethnic stereotypes

    I’m a fan of this. It’s better to offer content with context and education than to fully censor it.

    halcyoncmdr,
    @halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world avatar

    100% this is the way things should be handled. If we get rid of or hide mistakes of the past, they will simply be repeated as people forget.

    A note about historical context is an easy, and small solution to acknowledge the change in society without altering the original content.

    9715698,

    Metal Gear Solid Master Collection did this as well.

    dangblingus,

    What did they have to provide context for in the Master Collection?

    toxicbubble,

    i think misogyny and incest

    HawlSera,

    And portrayal of Tobacco which you can’t really do anymore

    Console_Modder, (edited ) do games w Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit
    @Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works avatar

    This lawsuit is so stupid. In my opinion, patenting, copyrighting, or trademarking concepts or mechanics in video games shouldn’t be allowed at all. The nemesis system in the Shadow of Mordor games was so cool, but we’re never going to see anything like it again. Warner went through the trouble to copyright (or something idk I’m not a lawyer) that system, and then let the series die out.

    I’m waiting to see the headlines that any other games with a shooty thing that goes bang is illegal, and the concept of shooting a gun in a video game is going to be owned by either Rockstar/Take Two or the collective mob of Call of Duty developers. If the world is gonna get that stupid, I got my fingers crossed that Bubsy 3D owns the rights to jumping

    Edit: Thought about it for 10 more seconds and I have questions. Is it specifically gliding using a creature that Nintendo has a problem with, or is it creature-assisted traversal in general? Can they sue Skyrim since you can ride horses? Palworld made the change so that you need to build a glider to glide around. BOTW and TOTK used gliders. Is Nintendo gonna sue them for that now too? I fucking hate all of this so God damned much

    ampersandrew,
    @ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

    I’m unconvinced that the Nemesis system would have worked well in too many other settings, but one game patent that had a tangible effect on the industry was Bandai-Namco’s patent on loading screen mini games. Remember how you could make the Soul Calibur II characters yell stuff while the match loaded? Funny that we didn’t see it again until Street Fighter 6, isn’t it? Conveniently after a patent would have expired. We went through an entire era of games with load times that could have benefited from mini games, and by the time the patent expired, we had largely come up with ways to get rid of load screens altogether.

    CleoTheWizard,
    @CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world avatar

    Well saying the nemesis system wouldn’t have worked well in other games is almost assuming that it wouldn’t be changed or evolved to fit other genres. People forget that the real damage some patents/copyrights do is not in their explicit existence, it’s the sphere of influence they exert on related concepts entirely. We weren’t just robbed of the nemesis system, we were robbed of anything even slightly resembling it.

    And I feel like once you understand that you realize it can be adapted to greater things. Spider Man games could have used it. Assassins creed would have been an amazing place for experimentation with those ideas. Could be adapted to Star Wars games, dragons dogma, yakuza, borderlands. And it doesn’t need to be a central focus of these games like it was with the WB games. But even the concept of having enemies that kill you be leveled up in some way is now tainted.

    ampersandrew,
    @ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

    Maybe it is a lack of imagination on my part, but that mechanic seems to rely heavily on characters that can be killed and come back to life with a vengeance on a regular basis, which I don’t think makes sense in any of the settings you listed except for Borderlands, with its New-U stations, funny enough. You could adapt it into something where both you and an enemy are defeated non-lethally, I suppose, but that’s a concept that strangely doesn’t have a common template in video games.

    tarrox1992,

    Spiderman and Batman are literally famous for not killing their enemies, so I think your first sentence is way more than a maybe.

    GraniteM,

    Horizon Zero Dawn would have been awesome with a nemesis system, especially if it was applied to the robo-dinosaurs. You could have the in-universe justification that a particular robot uploads its consciousness upon death and downloads into a new body, and now it remembers how you killed it before and it will adapt accordingly. Start having epic robots that know you, and you have to keep an eye out for them, but also upon being destroyed they could dispense better scraps.

    SkyezOpen,

    The tried to patent fucking MOUNTS. Someone get square and blizzard on the sue-train and ream Nintendo a new one.

    supersquirrel,

    Who the hell in their right mind would want to buy a switch after seeing this?

    StonerCowboy,

    All the nintendo boot licking neckbearded incels that you see defending the company like if its their own.

    thermal_shock,

    Children will, from their parents who don’t see these articles or care, just that their kid is entertained… Don’t be an ass.

    StonerCowboy,

    Lmao bro wut? The majority of gamers is in their 20s…found the neckbearded cheeto whose gonna boot lick for that switch 2 that’s weaker then a 1050ti and an Xbox series S lmao

    Nintendo’s target audience is often young adults, with a large share of Switch players falling between 20 and 25 years old. And then 40 year old

    Try again…

    drbrandagency.com/…/nintendo-marketing-strategy/#…

    thermal_shock, (edited )

    I have already boycotted Nintendo, but nice try? I’m on PC and steam deck.

    Also a lot of these concerns were not major issues when the switch 1 came out. So I don’t really go off the switch 1 ownership results since Nintendo seems to have done some serious damage to themselves in the past 1-3 years alone.

    samus12345,

    Even that group is a tiny minority. Most buyers are people who just want to play Nintendo games and don’t care about anything else.

    MagnyusG,

    most consumers don’t care, that’s why they’re consumers. Switch 2 is gonna sell gangbusters and no amount of frivolous lawsuits is going to put a dent in that.

    Plus you still have people mad at Palworld for no reason other than they think it “copied” Pokémon, like the guy getting downvoted into oblivion.

    ICastFist,
    @ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

    I won’t, unless I can buy one 2nd hand AND there’s a way to jailbreak it

    ICastFist,
    @ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

    It’s the using a creature to glide that’s the specific problem this time. Not the “using a creature” per se, but “pressing a button to instantly summon a non-player-controlled game-creature to allow for gliding, which is instantly dismissed once the player touches the ground” or something like that in the patent

    NightFantom,

    Which is equally insane, no?

    ICastFist,
    @ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

    Yes, the more you read the patent the more you just want to grab whoever approved it and force them to explain how and why it deserved it, despite lots of prior implementations.

    Yermaw,

    As far as I understand patent law, if nobody has actually patented something someone can just say “mine lol” and scoop up royalties and block shit for spite.

    BradleyUffner,

    Introduce a .5 second delay before dismissing the creature upon touching the ground.

    Caesium,

    it’s even more stupid because that’s not how the mount works in Pokémon anyway

    brown567,

    It’s how it works in Legends: Arceus, isn’t it?

    ICastFist,
    @ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

    As described in the patent, yes. You press one button, you start riding said mount. If it’s glider mount, it automatically changes to the stag once you touch the ground OR to the fish if you fall to the water.

    Palworld never had this “automatic change from one mount to another”, at best it was the glider pals that you didn’t have to manually summon in order to glide and went away once you touched the ground or water. I’ve skimmed the patent a few times, but I don’t recall it having a case for going from creature-assisted-gliding to back on foot

    Lojcs,

    Iirc sony has a patent on an input device having two separate data streams. It seems you write the most general thing you can on patents and patent offices don’t care

    Lv_InSaNe_vL,

    Amazon has a patent on the “one click purchase” button…

    JcbAzPx,

    Unfortunately, at least in the US (and from the sound of it, probably Japan), the patent office has the viewpoint of ‘patent everything and let the courts sort them out.’ The courts, on the other hand, defer to the patent office because ‘it’s they’re job so they must know what they’re doing.’

    CileTheSane,
    @CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

    patenting, copyrighting, or trademarking concepts or mechanics in video games shouldn’t be allowed at all

    It’s not allowed at all in board games. There’s a known issue that someone could completly copy the mechanics of a board game, and as long as they don’t copy the art or the exact text of the rulebook there is no legal means to stop it.

    Boardgamers are aware of this, and agree that it is better for development of future games than if someone could own the idea of “rolling a dice”, so if knockoffs do come around they tend to quickly get called out and not purchased.

    I don’t know how videogames managed to get different rules.

    JcbAzPx,

    That’s probably Richard Garfield’s fault for setting precedent with his collectable card game patent.

    ICastFist,
    @ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

    I don’t know how videogames managed to get different rules.

    A lot of people in those offices really don’t understand the technical mumbo jumbo that can be summed up as “doing something that already exists, but on a computer”

    Like scanning a document on a printer and immediately sending it as email. That was patented

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

    Based. Unskippable logo screens are a nuisance.

    NutWrench,
    @NutWrench@lemmy.world avatar

    Yup. The game company intros are the first thing I edit out of a game’s config files. Especially if they’re unskippable.

    krashmo,

    They’re so pointless too. What are they even expecting forcing them in our faces to accomplish? You either care about audio or you don’t. Seeing your logo isn’t going to change that

    catloaf,

    Marketing. If people think Dolby is good, they will prefer products with Dolby compatibility, and Dolby makes money from that licensing.

    krashmo,

    Except most people don’t give a shit about Dolby. Even audophiles mostly don’t care about them as a company or the fact that they’re involved beyond the games ability to support high end output devices. Put that garbage on the box or in the credits at the end of the game where it belongs

    glimse,

    Most people that say they give a shit about surround sound don’t have it set up correctly anyway lol

    They’re lucky if the speakers are even in the right place…let alone tuned properly. Good AVRs come with a microphone and most of the takeover projects I did when I was in home AV had it sitting unopened in the box.

    Valmond,

    Audiophiles loathe that crap. It’s not making better sound, just adds loudness and other shit. Surround? It’s like when groups long time ago started using stereo and made the sound Left then Right then LEFT etc. After the first experience its just a nuisance.

    But gotta sell the crap I guess. Good they just didn’t care about big corpo :-)

    yamanii,
    @yamanii@lemmy.world avatar

    No way you just dissed stereo, were you filtered by Vulcan Raven in MGS1?

    Valmond,

    If you don’t have more or less a listening room with the loudspeakers very well placed, you won’t notice a difference. Mono with a good setup will give spatial clues as good as stereo. Yes you might get the left-right mixed up I guess but does it matter?

    There was some mp3 matchbox shaking sound clip that really felt like it went around your head (popular maybe 10-15 years ago?), a simple mobile phone produced the effect very well, you just needed to close your eyes.

    thesystemisdown,

    Half assed audiophile here. I only have two ears. I just want clean and balanced. Two channels is just fine.

    MrVilliam,

    PSA: On PS5, after launching your game, hit the PS button. If there are activities, you can probably hit square to resume. This speeds through all the startup wankery and the main menu straight to loading your save. It rarely saves time, but it means you can launch your game and walk away to get a glass of water or whatever. I enjoy it.

    IHeartBadCode, do games w ‘If it’s the only place to play Mario, you buy it’: Former PlayStation boss reacts to $80 Nintendo games
    @IHeartBadCode@fedia.io avatar

    I guess I don't play Mario then. It's a pretty simple concept.

    Eldritch,

    I got a Wii for Christmas years ago. Never used it much. The last Nintendo console I bought was a game cube. You can easily live without Nintendo. They’re definitely decent games. Just not for that price.

    samus12345,

    They do fill a “good for all ages” niche that not many other games do nowadays. Which makes the exorbitant pricing especially strange.

    huquad,

    Its much better than that. There’s plenty of Mario content to emulate.

    ImplyingImplications,

    You underestimate how many people literally cannot stop themselves from playing Mario. I’d hope it’s mostly children begging their parents, but I have a feeling there’s a decent amount of 30 year olds with disposable income and zero impulse control in there.

    thermal_shock,

    I introduced mine to undertale and other stuff like cuphead, old school sonic games and SNES emulators. We dont care about latest Mario’s, but he does have odyssey.

    nickhammes,

    The Switch was the generation where I really started to have adult money, and while a lot of the games I got were lower-priced indie titles, I did get pretty much all of the big 1st party titles.

    There’s a reasonable chance I get a Switch 2, but I’m not gonna be buying a lot of games over $70, and the ones I do will probably be when they go on sale for like, 10-15% off. I suspect I’ll be buying fewer games this generation, and I’m okay with that.

    samus12345,

    the ones I do will probably be when they go on sale for like, 10-15% off

    Which is almost never.

    nickhammes,

    It’s uncommon, absolutely. But I bought Super Mario Odyssey around the third time I got an alert that it was on sale, for $50 or so. This took a couple years, so it’s reasonably rare, but if the future looks like the past, it will happen

    samus12345,

    The fact that you have to have alerts to be able to get the games at a discount is pretty bad, but you’re doing it the right way!

    Zahille7,

    Streamers.

    Streamers and YouTubers are mostly who I blame for this. They are influencers who showcase the games and it makes their fans want to buy it.

    I can’t count how many times I’ve read online that so many people refuse to buy some game, then I go on YouTube and see like 5 YouTubers playing it day one, because they (or maybe even a fan) bought it.

    Alk,
    @Alk@sh.itjust.works avatar

    I’m going to try very hard not to be, but I’m definitely the type of person you’re describing. That Nintendo direct had me drooling at the new Mario kart and donkey Kong games, and nothing hits like a zelda. Super mario wonder was a delight.

    I only hope I can emulate this system relatively quickly. I am not a man of strong willpower.

    FooBarrington,

    That’s why I’m just not looking at these new games. It would be interesting to know how they’re tackling an “open world” Mario Kart! But I already know it’s too expensive for what I’ll get out of it, so taking a look will only be bad for me in the long run.

    smort,
    @smort@lemmy.world avatar

    Sounds like they’re doing a Forza Horizon kind of setup, where you drive around the open world to get from one structured race to another.

    It’s kinda cool in that it keeps you in the world, but also annoying if you just wanna bang through races

    Walican132,

    Don’t feel bad for liking things. Your post kinda bums me out. Don’t let all this negative hype impact what will make you happy. If you can afford it. Do it. If you can’t then yeah don’t, but we as people are allowed to enjoy things.

    Cethin,

    Do you play many indie games? I feel like they’ve taken most of these formulas and really expanded on them, way more than Nintendo will do.

    Alk,
    @Alk@sh.itjust.works avatar

    I do! Many of my favorites are indie games, I’d say more than not. But I guess there’s some things that you can’t do without a massive budget or many many years in development, because many nintendo core franchises just aren’t beat in quality in my opinion, at least for some entries.

    big_slap,

    me! I’m that guy pre ordering the switch as soon as I can lol

    p03locke,
    @p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Imagine going back to exclusivity with gaming consoles. PCs, and by extension, Steam won the console wars, and Nintendo is just trying its damnest to hold on to the last gasp of gaming exclusivity.

    nuko147,
    @nuko147@lemm.ee avatar

    Yeah, Switch 1 was a nice break from playing games on my PC.

    Metostopholes, do games w Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says
    @Metostopholes@midwest.social avatar

    Huh, so it’s taking place in 2 AD instead of 2077. Weird direction to take.

    KammicRelief,

    ha!

    maybe it’s 2 AV (after V)

    Quetzalcutlass,

    I can’t not read AV as ΔV. Damn you, KSP!

    Cocodapuf,

    You’re gonna need a lot more than 2!

    itslilith,
    @itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    2km/s Δv can get you a mun roundtrip at least, once you’re in orbit

    joelfromaus,
    @joelfromaus@aussie.zone avatar

    My inner monologue even said “2 delta V… wait.”

    newthrowaway20, do games w Hogwarts Legacy has officially cleared Zelda as 2023's best-selling game worldwide

    It’s honestly amazing how well this game sold considering how mid the gameplay actually is. Having a popular IP really helped.

    gAlienLifeform,
    @gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world avatar

    Eh, people don’t buy for the gameplay mechanics most of the time, they buy for what they see in the trailers and read in the descriptions. Being the only videogame available for this IP, having the WB marketing juggernaut behind it, releasing at a time of the year without much competition, coming out on every single platform - it would have been weird if this game wasn’t the best selling one in 2023.

    bionicjoey,

    Exactly. You don’t know what the gameplay is until after you buy the game, unless you are savvy and watch reviews or something, which hardly any consumers do.

    sxt,

    Also, it’s not like the gameplay was mind bogglingly terrible, just some bland questing and a serviceable combat system. The main thing the game had to do to sell well imo was sell the environment and vibe which I think it did decently.

    aksdb,

    Are you saying that marketing works?!

    Kingofthezyx,

    My wife, whose entire history with video games is Sims 3, Animal Crossing: NH, and Pokémon Go, played through this game start to finish and loved it. It wasn’t really made for “gamers”, it was made for Harry Potter fans that wanted to play a Hogwarts game. It didn’t succeed as a gaming revolution, it succeeded in bringing non-gamers to buy it.

    Personally, I love that she got into it whether it’s mid or not, because it introduced her to a lot of the mechanics necessary to play “real” games in the future. And she had a lot of fun.

    theRealBassist,

    I’m both a gamer and HP fan.

    I thought the game was great, and I didn’t really realize the depths of people’s distaste for it, I guess.

    Was it crazy revolutionary? No, but it was fun.

    ggppjj,

    Fellow HP fan, I was kinda weirded out by the whole “free access to unforgivable curses” and “canonically killing people” and the honestly kinda disheartening stance on goblin personhood but man flying around the grounds is so fun

    HerbalGamer, (edited )
    @HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works avatar

    Oh yeah me too. There are a lot of moments in the writing that make me go “wait… what? are you sure about that?” and some of the game design was iffy here and there but the main attraction is just the fact that they’ve given us a “full-scale” Hogwarts and surroundings.

    CaptainEffort,

    Oh no kidding, I loved how they handled the curses. For the most part at least. Like, I would’ve been pretty disappointed if they weren’t usable in-game at all, but was never sure how they could introduce them in a realistic way. So HL literally having entire side quests devoted to you discovering the curses and learning how to use them honestly blew away my expectations.

    My only issue with them is being able to use them in front of others so casually. They should’ve just made them unusable if you had another character accompanying you.

    BigBananaDealer,
    @BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee avatar

    the last video game my mom played before hogwarts legacy was like…pac man in the arcades. it was amazing to share our progress together and bond

    Kingofthezyx,

    Haha! That sounds like so much fun!

    GeneralEmergency,

    What can you say gamers love anti-Semitism.

    CaptPretentious,

    The IP was my only interest. Games like this I get bored with so I generally avoid. But the views of the school looked great and I’ve always wanted to walk around it, like the fantasy version of it. I’ve been to the real set and walked around that which is cool. My only complaint is I bought it on PC so I didn’t get to see Azkaban.

    HUMAN_TRASH,

    What do you mean? I played on pc and went to Azkaban, what very little there was to see anyway

    Carighan,
    @Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

    Azkaban is not based on platform but house, join Hufflepuff to see it.

    CaptPretentious,

    I thought that was a PlayStation exclusive

    neurosnail,

    I thought the gameplay was awesome. To me, a really impressive entry to a potential series. What did you feel were the weak points in the gameplay?

    newthrowaway20,

    I found the combat to be serviceable, and at some points I had fun with it. But it kind of got repetitive really quick. Like once you learn the core mechanics, they didn’t really introduce a lot after that to keep you on your toes. But the main problem I had with the game came from the quests, they just felt so monotonous. I love exploring the castle, but finding every little collectible just felt tedious and didn’t really seem to have any payoff.

    All things I hope can be improved with an eventual sequel, I’m definitely glad I picked up the game. But it’s not something I’ve ever considered revisiting once I beat it.

    neurosnail,

    Yeah, agree with these points. It had that first entry vibe to it, similar to the Outer Worlds. Lack of enemy variety was a pretty big one, once you were a few hours in.

    neurosnail,

    Just seen they’ve uploaded this pretty funny video 😂: youtu.be/gwyHqXMSkAw?si=7REw4Cgj2lEpbAc0

    Darkcoffee, do games w Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit

    Nintendo is just a garbage lawsuit company that sometimes makes hardware with stupid subscriptions attached.

    A_Random_Idiot,

    and none of it matters, cause they have literal legions of fans that will ride their ride, no matter how much it costs, no matter how poorly made it is, no matter how much nintendo spits in their face.

    So Nintendo sees no significant economic repercussions from their behavior, and thus has incentive to change.

    Darkcoffee,

    I was one of those but they were losing me more and more every year… But 3 years ago it became way too much, and I got off the bandwagon. Screw that lol.

    I hope they don’t make as many sales as they expect… But you may be right, too many people who will buy their crap however expensive and how much they’re being mistreated by the company.

    ipkpjersi,

    I’m not so sure.

    All of my friends who are less pissed off at Nintendo than I am are not even considering buying a Switch 2 because Nintendo basically priced themselves out of the market. All of my friends who have a Switch 1 will not be buying the Switch 2, that’s pretty significant IMO, but I guess we’ll see.

    Robust_Mirror,

    I agree, they definitely priced themselves out of several demographics including casual gamers, parents of young children gamers, and “I guess I’ll get a switch as a second device” gamers. These people aren’t going to look at a switch that’s roughly the same price as the ps5 and xbox and think “yeah let’s grab that one”.

    The wii u showed their demographic of “die hard fans that buy no matter what” is actually really small compared to the rest of their sales. And I think we’re going to see a repeat of that.

    ipkpjersi,

    I hope it does worse than the Wii U tbh, Nintendo needs to be knocked down quite a few pegs. I am quite fed up with them.

    A_Random_Idiot,

    Its also fucked up that the switch is still 300 dollars, despite being released over 8 years ago.

    What happened to consoles getting cheaper? You know their cost to manufacture it isnt the same as it was 8 years ago.

    Robust_Mirror,

    Saw this the other day, that part isn’t as much their fault.

    lemmy.linuxuserspace.show/post/673986

    Zanathos,

    I bought a WiiU refurbished directly from Nintendo shortly before the Switch came out. I did it purely because the first big hax was released and I was able to easily port my GC\Wii hacked HDD to it AND also have WiiU games hacked games available. WW and TWP were also a big part of that purchase decision for me.

    I got a Switch and BotW ultimate CE on release, but will be skipping the S2 for some time. Likely until the next Zelda comes out if the Steam Deck can’t easily emulate other S2 titles by that time. I’m bummed I’ll be missing the new DK game (only 10GB file size though so not very big) and Hyrule Warriors game as the last one was amazing, but it’s a basic beat em up so no love really lost there.

    A_Random_Idiot,

    and for every one like you.

    Theres people who buy multiple of the console.

    One person in my family bought 4 of the Nintendo Switch. One for him, his wife, and one each for each of their two grand kids.

    and they also buy multiple copies of games, so they don’t have to worry about wanting to play a game someone else is already playing.

    and I would not be shocked at all if they buy at least two of the Switch 2 the second it becomes commonly available.

    Zahille7,

    Lemmy constantly falls into the same social trap as reddit: that we think we’re some monolith of consumerism and when we believe something we think everyone else will be on our side.

    Go on YouTube and look up the hundreds of videos from the past few months alone of scalpers and other Pokemon buyers getting into actual physical fights, buying literally 10+ of those huge box sets, and camping out at those vending machines and buying literally everything in them the minute they restock.

    I’m a vendor at comic and anime conventions here in the US. I did a show last month that was literally 99% Pokemon cards and merch, and everyone was buying that shit up regardless. There were actually maybe five booths including my own that weren’t selling just Pokemon stuff, if at all.

    A_Random_Idiot,

    Lemmy constantly falls into the same social trap as reddit: that we think we’re some monolith of consumerism and when we believe something we think everyone else will be on our side.

    I dont know why you are whinging about this when literally no one is making this claim. In fact, we are talking about the exact opposite of it.

    Go on YouTube and look up the hundreds of videos from the past few months alone of scalpers and other Pokemon buyers getting into actual physical fights, buying literally 10+ of those huge box sets, and camping out at those vending machines and buying literally everything in them the minute they restock.

    I’m a vendor at comic and anime conventions here in the US. I did a show last month that was literally 99% Pokemon cards and merch, and everyone was buying that shit up regardless. There were actually maybe five booths including my own that weren’t selling just Pokemon stuff, if at all.

    Yes, thats the legions of people we were talking about, before you came in with this weird tangent.

    Zahille7,

    I was agreeing with you with my anecdotal experience.

    The comment you replied to said Nintendo is going to lose customers over this, while your comment said Nintendo fans are still gonna be their dumb shitty selves by buying multiple of the same system or even game. Where does my comment diverge from that line of thinking?

    ETA: the consumerism claim was just something that I’ve noticed between reddit and Lemmy. Reddit might have thousands of users in one sub, while Lemmy only might have a few hundred. Both sites/whatever you call the collective of Lemmy, constantly think that people will go along with their beliefs about boycotting certain games/not buying certain products for whatever reason; when the fact of reality is that both of these places are actual echo chambers full of common denominators, and we need to face reality.

    Darkcoffee,

    I think they will lose customers over this, sure, but nowhere near enough to make them reconsider being the biggest a-holes in gaming (take that 2nd place, EA)

    Zahille7,

    That’s what I’m saying.

    Am I typing in some alien language?

    Robust_Mirror,

    I don’t think Nintendo has as many die hards as you think. The wii and switch had over 100 million sales. The wii u had 13 million.

    https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/92ba385f-6a15-424d-81ba-1b7ce35289d1.png

    Now look at switch game sales, scroll past their major IPs and pokemon games, and once again the sales show around 13 million or less.

    On wii u mario kart had 8 million sales, and not one other game passed 6 million.

    The wii, wii u and switch all had around 3 million sales in their first quarter and didn’t really pass that 13 million mark in their first year.

    If only die hard fans that buy no matter what buy it, I think it absolutely will be a problem for them. And I think it has a real chance of happening. Half my casual gamer friends didn’t even know switch 2 was a thing, and the ones that did know about it said they haven’t seen any reason to get it yet, especially at the prices they’re seeing.

    The reality is, the family and casual markets are what carried them whether they like it or not. Not the rabbid fans. And like with the wii u, if they don’t appeal to those markets properly, they won’t sell well.

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

    What a chad move

    villainy, do games w ‘There will always be people like you’: Tekken boss blasts ‘disrespectful’ fan for criticising character’s new look

    “While 98% of the fans are welcoming this, there will always be people like you,” Harada replied. “I understand and sympathize that it may not suit your personal taste, but if you prefer the old design, past works already exist. I am not taking those away from you.

    “Also, you refer to yourself as ‘Anna fans’, as if you represent all Anna fans, but you should express your opinion as an individual.”

    “You threaten to quit if she isn’t brought back, you complain the moment she is brought back,” he explained. “You demand that she be reverted after she has been completely redesigned from scratch, including her model and framework. And if she actually were reverted, you’d just say, ‘that’s recycling’.

    “Either way, your method of expressing your opinion and the content of your argument are entirely unconstructive, utterly pointless, and, above all, disrespectful to the other Anna fans who are genuinely looking forward to her.”

    I appreciate you Harada.

    embed_me,
    @embed_me@programming.dev avatar

    If only people strove to being this expressive rather than using corpospeak, things would be much better

    ampersandrew,
    @ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

    Well, there was the time that Tekken 7 was 3, though.

    MutilationWave,

    It gives me hope that someone can be so elegant with (I assume) a language that isn’t native. Call me out if I’m wrong/racist. I was always a soul calibur fan anyway.

    The cold hearted bastard in me thinks this was set up to sell more games.

    Duality I guess.

    Deceptichum,

    That’s a dev who’s tired of this fanboy shit.

    metaStatic,
    @metaStatic@kbin.earth avatar

    Speaking on behalf of all fans, fuck anyone who claims to speak on behalf of all fans.

    SuperSaiyanSwag,

    I feel like this doesn’t get called out enough, “as an X fan…”, and?!? Do you represent the guild? Did you take a vote? Are you Professor Xavier? You being a fan doesn’t mean anything if you opinion is not constructive at all.

    savvywolf, do gaming w Xbox boss would ‘love to find solutions’ so games aren’t lost when the 360 store closes | VGC
    @savvywolf@pawb.social avatar

    If you’re not intending to sell them for profit any more, then just let us download and emulate them.

    It’s not a hard problem.

    TonyTonyChopper,
    @TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz avatar

    heads begin exploding at Nindento HQ

    Wage_Slave,

    It's not even their company and just the suggestion here has their legal teams on high alert and ready.

    TonyTonyChopper,
    @TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz avatar

    I avoid using their actual name so I don’t get an automated cease and desist in the post

    TehPers,

    You really thing not referencing them or making any content related to any of their IPs will prevent them from sending a C&D? They’d probably send one out to everyone if it didn’t cost them any money to do so. God forbid you hire some plumbers, wear a red shirt, or draw something in the shape of a star.

    all-knight-party,
    @all-knight-party@kbin.cafe avatar

    Isn't some of the issue there that just because they don't have plans now doesn't preclude them from deciding down the line to do something? If they release that all for free then later ports or things of that nature directly lose value.

    lolcatnip,

    Companies that don’t actively market/license their IP should lose it fairly quickly and be required to release it to the public domain.

    all-knight-party,
    @all-knight-party@kbin.cafe avatar

    I'd agree with that, there should be a stricter standard on that stuff across the board with media.

    HellAwaits,

    Who’s going to maintain that infrastructure of free old game downloads? Companies don’t like to work for little benefit. It’s way harder than you think.

    BlahajEnjoyer,

    Drop the ISOs on torrent, problem solved. No need to reinvent the wheel, just do what the pirates have been doing for decades at this point.

    Yearly1845,

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  • hedgehog,

    And BitTorrent is already used to distribute games! Blizzard uses BitTorrent to distribute WoW, for example.

    Small correction, though - BitTorrent wasn’t released until 2001.

    NuPNuA,

    Do you not understand how IP we works? MS publish a minimal amount of the actual titles on the 360, the remainder belong to third party publishers that woukd never agree to this. MS have already tried to bring the whole 360 catalogue to the S/X back cat but can’t get a lot of these publishers to sign off on the adaptations needed to get them running.

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

    That’s fine. Nintendo was already planning to impose the Nintendo tax. So I imposed the “I ain’t buyin’ this shit tax”.

    NewNewAccount,

    Wondering how this is going to play out. A Switch for $600+ is borderline insane.

    NarrativeBear,

    Hopefully gamers get together and protest Trump out of office for artificially bumping up the costs of goods.

    Tarrifs = Tax

    A tax that working people pay, in the country that set the tarriff.

    riodoro1,

    Out of all the people it’s gamers that will put trump out of office.

    madjo,

    I love your optimism, I wish I could share it.

    SkunkWorkz,

    Probably gamers put him in office in the first place. Steve Bannon capitalized on Gamergate and started latching on to it to recruit young white male gamers to the far right. Then these GamerGate proponents became manosphere followers.

    chunes,

    You say that but I genuinely wouldn’t be surprised if gamers as a demographic are more liberal than average.

    riodoro1,

    Guys, the word „gamers” was used too much in this comment thread. Stop.

    kerntucky,
    @kerntucky@infosec.pub avatar

    This article about a gaming console was posted in a gaming community and you’re complaining that the term “gamers” is being used too much? Which term would you prefer, game enthusiasts?

    SkunkWorkz,

    Maybe the general gaming public but probably not among capital G Gamers™ who are the loud minority on the internet.

    PanArab,
    @PanArab@lemm.ee avatar

    I think gamers are more reactionary than average. Gamers gave us Gamergate which eventually gave us Trump.

    Coreidan,

    Ya? While sitting on your ass? Doubt.

    Ledericas,

    They will just put the games at 100 each, not including DLC

    mostNONheinous,

    145% of 450 is 652, you add those together and it’s essentially 1100$. And that’s before tax at the register in the US.

    NarrativeBear,

    Its insane that a tax is also charged on top of the already applied tariff.

    Paradachshund,

    Don’t forget to tip the self checkout.

    echodot,

    Technically it isn’t.

    The company has a price for the product, importers import the product at that price (sometimes the importer will also be the manufacturer, but that doesn’t actually make a difference as far as the calculation is concerned), then some official shows up and demands an import tariff, the important pays the tariff.

    The shelf price is calculated as the total cost to the importer + a profit margin + sales tax. The tariff just gets lumped into the cost for the importer. Sales tax doesn’t make a distinction about how the price is arrived at.

    NarrativeBear,

    Yes, technically correct and I am not disputing your points.

    But, we all know the cost of the tariff the local importer will need to pay the local government will be passed on to local consumers.

    My distinction and argument is if the government said “we will increase taxes on all products at your local grocery store by 145℅” people would flip. But when the wording become we will tariff “other countries” people forget who actually pays that tariff.

    ExtantHuman,

    Lol. That 600+ is JUST the extra tax. That’s on top of the base price

    Hudell,

    I don’t even want to imagine what is going to be the price for it here in Brazil. After the ps4 launched for nearly $2000 I haven’t even looked at any console retail prices here again.

    suite403,

    They already crossed the border!

    billwashere,

    Yeah I didn’t wanna pay that for a PS5. And the PS5 GPU alone is likely 5 times more power then what’s rumored to be in the switch 2… no way I’m paying that for a switch.

    NarrativeBear,

    Thanks Trump for adding a 145% “tax” on my electronics. How am I supposed to afford anything now!?

    Guess I may as well just go protest instead.

    callouscomic,

    Thanks half the voting country too. You got neighbors who asked for this.

    Korhaka,

    I wasn’t going to get one even if it was £20, but how? Trump set the tariffs. Obviously it’s going to cost a shitload more if there is a 145% tariff in the US.

    can, do games w Switch 2 GameCube controller will only be offered to those who pre-order the console

    https://www.videogameschronicle.com/files/2025/04/GC--480x766.jpg

    Initially. Still annoying but title is misleading.

    catloaf,

    I need a fucking online subscription to buy a controller???

    doctortofu,
    @doctortofu@reddthat.com avatar

    I mean, it’s Nintendo - if there was a way to somehow automatically charge your card every time you say, hear or think the words “Nintendo”, “Mario” and such, they’d do it without hesitation…

    can,

    That’s been standard for the switch retro controller releases. And yes it’s been bullshit the entire time. I would have liked an N64 one.

    ABCDE,

    But you don’t have the sub (cheap when sharing a family pack) so you can’t play the N64 games anyway.

    Wispy2891,

    How I can’t play N64 games without a subscription? 🏴‍☠️

    ABCDE,

    Because you need it to play them on Switch.

    Wispy2891,

    unless you stumble on a brick, fall down and accidentally install a rp2040 on the switch, then accidentally flash picofly when trying to understand what’s going on

    Thistlewick,

    At least it gives people who are using their switches a chance to buy one, instead of them selling out in seconds to a network of bot accounts before winding up on eBay for $300+ the following week.

    It’s not the perfect system, but I can understand why they are doing it.

    catloaf,

    I am using my Switch just fine without an online subscription. I guess Nintendo thinks I am using it wrong.

    TowardsTheFuture,

    I mean, there’s plenty of reasons to not like Nintendo, but this whole thing is because the GameCube coming to their Online subscription. So I mean… it makes sense.

    ABCDE,

    Right, but he sub is shareable and a pretty cheap barrier for entry… and required to play those GameCube games anyway.

    catloaf,

    I don’t need it to play Smash with friends on the couch.

    Really I shouldn’t need the subscription for GC ports either. What’s wrong with making them individual purchases like on the 3DS? (Answer: that’s not monthly recurring revenue.)

    Zedstrian,

    Nintendo opting to forgo selling retro games piecemeal and instead expecting consumers to rent access to them in perpetuity is an anti-consumer move.

    I have no problem paying for games when they’re sold at affordable, reasonable prices, so until that’s the case for Nintendo’s library, better to just emulate as much of it as possible.

    ABCDE,

    Sure, but that’s a different issue; I agree with that. Don’t forget that if you even are allowed to ‘buy’ them, they will close the online service for that platform in the future with no guarantee you can use it on another platform.

    Armok_the_bunny,

    Can you think of a better way to keep it mostly out of the hands of scalpers?

    shawn1122,

    They must enter a unique switch serial number (that corresponds with inventory) to make the purchase? Don’t see why it has to be contigent on a subscription.

    Armok_the_bunny,

    That would work if serial numbers weren’t visible without even opening the box the device came in, and I’m they are even included on the receipt for the device. Scalpers would absolutely have a ton of serial numbers just lying around from unsold devices, or even devices they sold and just hope the owner of won’t bother attempting a purchase of the thing they are scalping.

    catloaf,

    Make enough of them that scalping isn’t profitable.

    Armok_the_bunny,

    That’s a fine solution long term I guess, but things take time to be made.

    Kolanaki,
    @Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

    Put the onus on the retailer to limit how many units a single customer can purchase. Why would Nintendo give a single fuck about scalpers, anyway?

    TheOctonaut,

    A controller that is useful only when you have that online subscription to play the back catalogue, yes.

    als,

    The new switch has a whole button that doesn’t work without a paid online subscription 🤪

    TheOctonaut,

    Lemmy 24/7: “if its free, you’re the product”

    Lemmy on Nintendo: “Why should I pay for online play?! It needs to be free, moderated, and exist indefinitely even after the obsolescence of the product. Otherwise, I’m entirely justified in pirating everything.”

    FartMaster69,

    Yes, it’s the same for their other classic controllers.

    victorz,

    Well that got me all worked up for no reason, didn’t it.

    Thanks for the clarification.

    COME ON, OP!

    Copernican,

    Lol yeah. It makes sense. You don’t want your peripheral for the console to sell out to buyers that just want to use it for emulation.

    Railcar8095,

    But… I want it for emulation… Any good reliable 3rd party out there?

    MrScottyTay,

    PowerA did a good wireless one that also had a second Z button on the other side

    SkunkWorkz, (edited )

    NYXI Wizard maybe

    Or search on Etsy for a refurbished controller and just use an adapter to connect it to PC. Though many sellers only sell Phob GCC. It’s a modded GC controller with a custom motherboard. It uses Hall Effect sensors so the sticks will never ever experience drift. It’s expensive though. Like here is a fancy one for $325 sagecustomcontrollers.com/products/phob-gcc

    Abnorc,

    Does it make sense? Emulation is going to happen one way or another. If Nintendo sold a GC controller that is PC compatible, they’d at least make some money from those buyers.

    Copernican,

    It will. But for the first run you don’t want people buying the console and paying for the switch GameCube access to have to ability to buy a GC controller. It’s like how for sports teams season ticket holders usually get some first access to buy playoff tickets.

    NONE_dc, do games w Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit
    @NONE_dc@lemmy.world avatar

    I mean… Patents in general are bullshit just for things like this.

    DeathsEmbrace,

    There’s a parasitic egg layer that uses leaves some get put into birds and then get shit out? Why isn’t Nintendo suing these insects for using birds to fly around?

    BombOmOm,
    @BombOmOm@lemmy.world avatar

    Japanese ones are particularly worse. In the US a successful defense is prior art, there is no such defense in Japan.

    missingno, do games w MultiVersus officially closes down and is delisted today
    @missingno@fedia.io avatar

    They're patching it to be playable offline, but only if you've previously downloaded the game.

    Why not just leave that version up instead of delisting it? They could even sell it. Would be seen as a success story for preservation instead of another loss, and it's especially baffling because it's a fully avoidable loss.

    fluxion,

    According to the bean counters this will save them $17/month in hosting costs

    golli,

    Do you even have to pay hosting costs, if you put a game on steam or does valve not distribute your game for free?

    If I’d have to guess the bigger issues with a game like this would be licensing or that delisting allows some form of tax advantageous asset depreciation.

    pipe01,

    You don’t pay anything to steam other than the initial 100 bucks or so, and the cut they take

    Sylvartas,

    Valve hosts it for “free” (30 to 15% of every sale), yes.

    I’m guessing this game has some phone-home DRM or something, and maybe it’s only required the first time it’s executed after installation ? They could of course just give the game a patch that removes it but I guess they don’t want to anger the line investors and make it go down by working even a second on a “discontinued” game.

    Goretantath,

    Pretty sure hosting costa arent it, the only thing possible woyld be licensing issues for the IP’s otherwsie they could leave it on steam forever and STILL make money off of sales. There are games that do this by making the players host their own servers each match.

    MrScottyTay,

    But they own the IPs…

    CaptPretentious,

    I would venture to guess it’s to avoid potential licensing issues that could arise down the road that they don’t want to deal with.

    spankmonkey,
    @spankmonkey@lemmy.world avatar

    Were any characters in the game not owned by Warner Bros?

    CaptPretentious,

    Potentially, I don’t exactly know all the rights owners.

    But just looking at the roster, I’d assume Arya Stark might be the most complicated. While HBO falls under WB, unsure if ol’ George signed away all rights to the character. And there’s always future deals too, since rights holders can change hands.

    Tattorack,
    @Tattorack@lemmy.world avatar

    Yeah, they’ve just ensured the only way a person can play it is through piracy. Very smart move, WB, very smart…

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