sparky

sparky, 20 dni temu

Console manufacturers will have to adapt and liberalize self-publishing to stay relevant. AAA gaming continues to enshittify, and indie games / smaller studios are the ones releasing the good titles.

Valve knows this, and the ease for developers to release on Steam means they’re well positioned to ride out the transition. By comparison, releasing on console means signing license agreements, getting access to proprietary SDKs, submitting your game through an approval process, getting each update reviewed, etc etc. The barriers make releasing on console very unappealing for smaller developers.

So IMO if the consoles want to ride out the decline of AAA games, they will need to reinvent their image and how they interact with smaller studios and indies.

sparky, miesiąc temu

What are they exhibiting? Lawsuits?

sparky, miesiąc temu (edited miesiąc temu)

Makes me sad to see it’s Windows only given it’s so graphically simple and low tech. Should be a shoe-in for a Mac and Linux version.

Edit: yes I know proton exists, my point is that as an indie game it is likely built with something like Unity or Godot, and thus exporting a native Mac and Linux build is just a matter of turning on a couple check boxes.

sparky, miesiąc temu

There’s CrossOver on Mac which works pretty well for most titles too. Not as good as proton but let’s say 75% there. But you might be right that the success of proton is disincentivizing developers from targeting either. Still disappointing though as a game like this is an ideal candidate for Mac and Linux, compared to some AAA title.

sparky, miesiąc temu

Yes you can run windows games fairly easily on Mac and Linux these days but it’s never quite as good as a native build.

sparky, miesiąc temu

It does go on sale from time to time. I picked it up on Xbox last year for 60% off if I recall correctly.

sparky, miesiąc temu

Nope, you can buy an external one or something as an accessory but it’s another hundred bucks.

sparky, miesiąc temu

Yup. Piracy is bad so make sure to avoid that. Specifically, do not search for “Yuzu 1734” and combine it with “Firmware 18.1” and “Prod keys 18.1”, because if you did that you would be all set to pirate switch games. So to repeat, definitely don’t search for these things. Now you know what to avoid.

sparky, miesiąc temu

Yeah, those started working again with the previous patch.

sparky, 2 miesiące temu

COD 1 & 2 were excellent games. Man, how far they have fallen.

sparky, 2 miesiące temu

Literally every company’s “corporate culture” right here. Assemble a room full of people who know what they’re doing, then boss man dictates what should be done with his very limited information, all the while not listening to said people who know what they’re doing, because ThE pRoJeCt, or the ScHeDuLe, or the shareholders, or fucking whatever. Truly, American capitalism cannot be perfected upon.

sparky, 8 miesięcy temu

Aaaand Nintendo lawsuit in 3…2….1….

sparky, rok temu

Half right. They all need to be installed, as in run from the hard drive and not directly off the disc. Some games require you to also download even more content, as in, the disc doesn’t have all the data needed to run the game.

sparky, rok temu

There is basically no other choice now as optical drive speeds haven’t kept up with hard drive and SSD speeds. The PS5 for example can read blu ray discs at around 35 MB/s, compared to its internal SSD speed of 7100 MB/s. Doing the math that makes reading the disc over 200 times slower. Imagine the loading screens.

sparky, rok temu

As the proverb says, imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. It would seem Valve has truly defined a new category of device, given the rush by other OEMs to make clones!

sparky, rok temu (edited rok temu)

Apple engineer here, from what I understand most of Unity’s competitors in the we space are significantly better paying and performing. We keep hearing from developers that nobody wants to use Unity’s product because of that. AppLovin, the one named here, outperforms Unity Ads by as much as 800% in some titles, according to a contact of mine at a game studio. With a difference like that it’s hardly surprising nobody is choosing Unity Ads.

This reeks of desperation, but one wonders how effective it could be - because this demand to drop AppLovin is basically cutting off the revenue faucet for these same developers they’re now trying to extort. No Unity fees but no good income either…

sparky, rok temu

As much as that would annoy me if I owned one, it’s somewhat understandable I think given those games were designed before this card or its GPU family existed, and they can’t possibly test a huge back catalog from 5+ years ago

sparky, rok temu

Is this game even playable yet?

sparky, rok temu

Important to note, this doesn’t affect online multiplayer or availability on newer consoles, eg you’ll continue to be able to buy, download and play 360 titles on Xbox One / Xbox Series.

sparky, rok temu

MS probably wants to make sure that Series S doesn’t end up missing out on games or getting subpar experiences, given they promised their customers that it’s the same as an X just at a lower resolution. You can see how they want to avoid outcomes like Series S being confined to lower player counts, smaller maps, or other game-restricting features.

But they’ve painted themselves into a corner in this case. Split screen requires rendering the whole game twice, which the S isn’t powerful enough to do. It’s also probably a feature few players will actually use.

Seems like this case should be an exception to the parity requirements.

sparky, rok temu

Sir, allow me to introduce you to capitalism

sparky, rok temu

Translation: We believe our players are dumb enough to shell out the money, so we’ll charge what we can. Get rekt.

sparky, rok temu

They should do an April fools’ sale where they reduce the price by 1 cent