Comment on Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo

• catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • krashmo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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 :-)

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    • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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