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

hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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.

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BorgDrone@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
So because some people have a crappy home theater setup everyone should have a crappy experience?

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- grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Hey my setup’s great, I just don’t need 5.1 surround sound that bad
  
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  - BorgDrone@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Without at least 5.1, why even bother playing games or watching movies?
    
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    grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Now you’re just playing
    
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- bitfucker@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  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.
  
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