Aielman15

@Aielman15@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Resident Evil 2 Remake left me very disappointed. The moment-to-moment gameplay is good, great even! But the complete lack of soundtrack (despite the original game having a lot of iconic tracks), two thirds of the story being cut, and the characters just acting as imbeciles for half the screentime was upsetting. Worst offender was Leon leaving a man to die inside his cell because “I have to speak with the chief first”. Like, what? You don’t even know if the chief is alive, and even if he was, you don’t know where he is, and you don’t have the certainty that you can get back in one piece to free the poor guy from his jail. You really want to leave him like that at the mercy of whatever monster lurks inside?

  Don’t get me started on 3 Remake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sacred 2 Remaster announced from THQ Nordic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So strange remaking Sacred 2 when the first entry was by far the most appreciated (also the one that needs it the most, as playing it at modern screens resolution with stable fps is surprisingly difficult).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation 6 Console And New PS6 Handheld ‘Canis’ Specs Leak, It’s Claimed - Insider Gaming⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am. I grew up with the PS1 and I really liked the simplicity, ease of use, affordability and reliability of older gens, but the newer ones seem to have all the cons of consoles and none of the benefits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo sold almost 6 million Switch 2 units in less than a month⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unsurprisingly. I remember some friends swearing that it would be DOA because of console/games prices and whatever.

  I was like, if gamers were careful with their money, we wouldn’t have had horse armor nonsense for the past 20 years, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation 6 Console And New PS6 Handheld ‘Canis’ Specs Leak, It’s Claimed - Insider Gaming⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Are we already talking about next gen leaks? Damn, this generation passed by and I barely noticed it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG and game publishers launch FreedomToBuy.games to raise awareness on censorship in gaming – GOG Pressroom⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never played a NSFW game and never will. I’m also, like, very much Ace, so, like, no chance in hell I’ll ever will. BUT I can’t resist the allure of free games! No matter what they are…

  There’s also Postal 2 in there lol, that convinced me to click the Claim button.

  I’ve already hidden the games from the library, so I’ll probably never see them again and forget they exist in about 6 months from now…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨About the worldview of a magical game。⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this an account specifically created to advertise a shitty mobile-looking game?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Sues Tencent Over Horizon Lookalike⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can be the judge of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Sues Tencent Over Horizon Lookalike⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s got to be irony somewhere in Sony striking a deal with Palworld, then suing another company for copying the art of their game.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RPGs that are optionally pacifist?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been a while and I’ve never tried a 100% pacifist run, but I think that it’s theoretically possible in Planescape: Torment (Steam, GoG).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Bringing your games to other platforms is how you’re going to win" - Circana⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The Switch 2 has not sold 20M units yet. They just hit 5M, and they’re projecting they’ll sell 15M by the end of the fiscal year, which is by March.

  Whops, sorry about that. Didn’t mean to inflate it voluntarily. I remembered 3M from the first few days, then checked update sources, got numbers mixed up in my head and somehow came up with 20M. That’s surely a wild number lol

  Thanks for catching that, would hate to spread disinfo like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Bringing your games to other platforms is how you’re going to win" - Circana⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But that’s exactly the same reason I stopped buying any console. I was more than happy to let the handful of Sony exclusives pass me by, and then they started coming to PC. Now I’m more than happy to let a handful of Nintendo exclusives pass me by.

  I agree with you here and I wish more people did it as well, but it’s not how it works. Millions of people buy a Nintendo console for their exclusive title of choice, be it Pokémon or Mario or whatever. That’s how it’s been for the past decades, and judging from the 20M consoles sold in a few days, that’s how it’s going for the Switch 2 as well.

  Those 20M had plenty of alternatives, be it a traditional console (PS/Xbox), a PC, or a handheld (Steam Deck). They went and bought a Nintendo on day one, despite the alternatives offering equal or better performance, similar form factor and in the same price range.

  But that’s not driving console sales like they used to. The last few Final Fantasy games seemed to do quite well on PC, indicating that people did not buy a PS5 to play them, and PS5 is having difficulty matching PS4 units sold even with the utter decimation of their closest competitor.

  Yes, but again, that has nothing to do with the argument at hand. Third parties don’t have a horse in the race, they are content selling as many copies as they can because that’s their only revenue stream. It’s a completely different situation for console manufacturers, to the point that they are not even remotely comparable.

  That’s another point you made later in your post; wherever Xbox players went, it wasn’t to PlayStation. Data would seem to indicate that not even all of the PlayStation players stuck with PlayStation.

  Exactly, which shows that players do move to whatever platform is more enticing to them. There is certainly a “core” fanbase that sticks to their console - either because they have invested in a digital library, or want to stick go their profile and the achievements/trophies built over the years, or simply because of blind brand loyalty - but there are also lots of people who jump ship and take their money elsewhere. And judging from the numbers, it’s not a small amount.

  Exactly, but potentially, they would stand to make way more money by selling more copies of those games than by selling more Switch 2s and getting those customers locked in.

  That was never the question. Of course they would sell more copies of those games by porting them elsewhere. The question is, does that risk them losing more money in the long run, as players buy their games elsewhere?

  A Nintendo player gives nintendo 100% of the cut in any Zelda sale (and other first party titles), and a 30% cut on any other third party game bought on their platform. Conversely, a PlayStation player will give Microsoft 70% of the revenue for one single sale (Forza Horizon 5) and 0% on anything else.

  If your user base is small (the Xbox user base certainly is) and not accustomed to buying games (which many devs have lamented over the years - I remember this article from 2022, for example), then it’s a no brainer: port your game to the rival console and enjoy that 70% cut. It’s not as cut-and-dry for Nintendo.

  Yes, there is. If you got 30% of all sales from games on an install base the size of the Wii U, it’s not going to make up for a game like Mario Kart or Super Smash Bros. selling 100M additional copies on extra platforms. We don’t know yet how well Switch 2 will do (probably better than Wii U and not as well as the Switch 1), but at certain thresholds, that 30% leaves them worse off than that other 70 that reduces the value of their platform.

  If your/Piscatella’s argument is that they should give up a 30% cut on all sales because of the possibility (insofar, with no backing) of their console selling less units than the predecessor, then it’s a bad argument.

  Even if they somehow lost 10/20% of their previous user base, that’s still gigantic enough to make their 30% cut (and all adjacent revenue streams, like online subscriptions, hardware sales, etc) enticing, especially if those people are accustomed to buying games at full/near full price. Suggesting that the alternative - taking a 70% cut on a few select titles - would be better for them sounds, frankly speaking, ridiculous to me. I would be willing to hear that argument a few years down the line, after seeing how Switch 2 is really doing, but for now, there is simply no reason at all to even entertain such an absurd notion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Bringing your games to other platforms is how you’re going to win" - Circana⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And instead he’d say that people are happy where they are and would buy the game if it came to them, as evidenced by how high something like Stellar Blade or Forza Horizon 5 shoot up the charts when they get a port

  Comparing Forza Horizon and Stellar Blade to the likes of Pokémon, Mario and Zelda is, frankly speaking, an exercise in futility. You can’t extrapolate useful data by comparing completely different products, catering to completely different audiences.

  FH5 already became one of the best-selling PS5 games for the year almost immediately, even though PS5 owners could have bought an Xbox to play it at any point.

  Why would a PlayStation user buy an Xbox, like, ever? It’s the same platform, doing the same thing, but worse. Heck, even Xbox users aren’t buying Xbox at this point. PS users waited for FH5 to come to them, because nobody in their right mind would buy a $500 console for FH5 alone, and there’s little from what the Xbox offers that entices them to buy their console.

  Nintendo, meanwhile, offers them a different experience (handheld console) playing completely different games (a lot of award winning Nintendo exclusives).

  not mentioned in the article, there’s the night and day financial difference that a PC port makes for the likes of a mainstay franchise like Final Fantasy.

  Third parties have nothing to gain from exclusivity deals but the initial paycheck, while console manufacturers keep cashing in from people who bought into their ecosystem and are now locked into paying them a 30% from all their purchases. Final Fantasy went multiplatform because the exclusivity cash from Sony was not enough to offset the missed sales from other platforms. There’s also something to say about a shrinking playerbase which makes the franchise less prestigious in the long run (as less players grow up playing FF titles, they won’t develop interest in the franchise and won’t buy future entries in the future).

  That has nothing to do with the argument at hand, though. It’s a completely different situation for two very different players in the market that have nothing to do with one another.

  Speaking for myself, I’d have bought Tears of the Kingdom if it came to PC, and instead I was happy to just not play it at all.

  A lot of people would be content playing Zelda on their PC, that’s the entire point. A Nintendo console has as much value as the exclusive games you can play on it. Port them over, and a lot of people would just… Not buying the console at all.

  There is if the volume of what they’re taking 30% of doesn’t make up for the money they would have made by making Mario Kart, Zelda, and Smash Bros. multiplatform releases.

  There is no chance in hell that 30% from all purchases from a healthy fanbase on all games, DLCs and subscriptions (and that’s not factoring in hardware sales, like consoles, Amiibos and other overpriced plastic thingamajig Nintendo fans spend their money on) is even remotely comparable to a 70% cut on some titles, especially if taking that 70% cut risks lowering the interest and engagement on their main platform. Basically, MS had nothing to lose, their 30% cut was shit anyway, but Nintendo’s cut is far more valuable and, at least so far, more enticing than the other option.

  They can hope that, but as Piscatella sees in the data, getting people to move largely isn’t happening.

  Except that it is. Of the 70-80M XboxOne users who bought that console, only half that much have decided to stick with Microsoft through the next gen. Those people didn’t disappear, they moved onto other (more enticing) consoles. WiiU was a dumpster fire and Switch went on becoming one of the most successful consoles ever: where did all those people come from? Did they stop gaming altogether while waiting for Nintendo to put their shit together? No, they bought a different console, and came back for the Switch because what they saw interested them.

  There is certainly a lot going on in the younger market and the generational shift will be something to analyze in the years to come, but Nintendo’s strategy is not without reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Bringing your games to other platforms is how you’re going to win" - Circana⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The strategy worked for Xbox because the alternative was to curl up and die. There’s no reason for Nintendo to give up their 30% sales cut to reach audiences in their system of choice.

  Nintendo also has a lot more visibility and brand recognition (and generally speaking, more prestige and goodwill) compared to whatever Microsoft is attempting to sell at the moment, which again, means there’s little reason to reach people who bought into other systems. People already know Pokémon and Mario, and know those are good games. If they wanted to play them, they would’ve bought a Nintendo console.
  Porting Mario and Pokémon to PS and Steam would certainly bring in more sales, but it would also devalue a console whose entire shtick is that it lets you play games you can’t play anywhere else.

  The only concession Nintendo has done so far is to bring some spin-off titles to mobile, possibly in an attempt to corner the younger market that seems to be less interested in traditional consoles, and hook them with their games in the hope of them buying a Switch and doing their purchases on the Nintendo store.

  Whoever says that Nintendo should follow in the steps of one of the biggest failures of today’s console market, instead of doing what they’ve done so far with resounding success, is nuts, especially since the “data” MS has released so far about their consoles and the revenue is muddy at best - they say, for example, that GamePass is profitable, but we don’t know how much profitable it is, nor how much does it cost for them to bring into the service all those games, nor the opportunity cost of releasing those games on the service instead of selling them, nor… Anything at all, really. Like, how many players are on GP that play regularly? How much money did those players spend on the store before subscribing to GP? How much do they spend now? How many of those players are subscribed for Gold and Call of Duty, and how many are interested in other titles? What’s the difference in sales between GP and selling the same game on a successful platform, ie Steam/PS? Is GP the fault of other titles selling poorly on the console, and if so, doesn’t that threaten the stability of the console, when the developers refuse to optimize or straight up release their game on the platform because it’s a waste of time and money to do so?

  Microsoft knows that data and refuses to tell us, so we’re left wondering what “profitable” means. What we know for sure is that Xbox is dead, and Nintendo isn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Bringing your games to other platforms is how you’re going to win" - Circana⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine saying that one of (if not the most, we’ll see how it goes) successful consoles of all time should follow Microsoft’s example when it comes to administering their consoles and exclusives.

  Like, wow. I despise Nintendo and everything they stand for, but this is just delusional on so many levels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alabaster Dawn (CrossCode sequel) - Demo Release Date Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  CrossCode is one of my favourite games ever. I can barely contain my excitement for this one!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a bit of a complicated situation and I wouldn’t go into much detail, but basically, they live in Italy, but one of their job is (work from home) in another country. They are taxed by the other country, then taxed by Italy as well.

  After that, Italy fined them on some bullshit grounds and forced them to pay a ridiculous sum of money. Needless to say, they never attempted to skirt or evade taxes or anything. They worked their ass off and the country said “fuck you in particular” because Italy.

  I specifically remember them telling me that, despite being half Italian, they wanted to live in Italy because they love the country and have friends and family here, but now they don’t know what to do. It’s heartbreaking seeing how our country treats its citizens, then our politicians going on TV and lamenting the fact that young people choose to go live elsewhere. Italy as a country doesn’t see you as a citizen to protect, it just wants to squeeze you dry and leave you for dead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Italy is a joke. Our politicians call us lazy, the rich go on TV crying because they can’t find people willing to work for minimal (or below) wage, and then a young person manages to carve themselves a path outside of the ‘norm’, our state immediately shows up and curb stomps them.

  I was talking with a colleague of mine the other day. They work two jobs to make a living. The state taxed them so much, they are paying more for the second job that they are gaining, basically working for free. Tax the poor, let the rich off the hook.

  Fuck Italy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨John Wick Hex will be removed from sale on all platforms beginning July 17th, 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I’m very sorry, it’s my fault. I misinterpreted your comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨John Wick Hex will be removed from sale on all platforms beginning July 17th, 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  John Wick Hex has been sold as a completed product and will remain playable even after the published pulls the plug. This is not planned obsolescence, their license for the movie rights has expired.

  Stop Killing Games has NOTHING to do with this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that the edgy vibes that you miss, or just generic childhood nostalgia?

  Everyone has it, me included. I miss playing Tekken with my brother, and comparing our progress in Sacred, and generally speaking, nerding together. We are both adults and employed, and he’s got two kids as well, now. We barely have time for a brief call over the weekend :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The over-the-top edgy/“how do you do, fellow kids?” vibes of the early y2k years is definitely something that I don’t miss from that era.

  I can somehow hear Linking Park in the distance while scrolling this post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smaller rally/racing games I recommend you try!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Japanese Drift Master seems interesting. I enjoy open world racing games ever since I fell in love with Test Drive Unlimited back in the days, but I can’t vibe with Forza Horizon because of the constant “Congratulations, you just drove 5 meters in this direction! Take this awesome car for free!” wherever you go. It completely robs me of the enjoyment of progressing through the game.

  Wishlisted it, I’ll probably buy it as soon as I have some free time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So is Kingdom Hearts 3 _bad_ or just the normal cringe of Kingdom Hearts?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  3 in the ideal situation, requires the user to have played like i dont remember, 10 different games.

  Or watch a 30-minute recap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I trust these people with every cell of my body.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Producer Recommends Laid Off Workers Should Use AI To 'Help Reduce The Emotional And Cognitive Load That Comes With Job Loss'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is wonderful advice! Thank you, John Xbox! I may be without a job, but I will keep on using your products like the mindless consumer I am, so that your paychecks will keep on growing.

  God, this is so out of touch that it stops being funny and becomes genuinely uncanny. Like, are these people even real? Are they robots piloted by Skynet? Am I the only real person on the entire planet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer interview: my Q&A with a PC game 'repacker'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is top quality journalism offered for free. We don’t deserve you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Xbox Considered Laying One Person Off Instead Of Thousands⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don Mattrick left Xbox in 2013. It was more than a decade ago. He may have ruined the XOne launch, but Spencer has had all the time and money in the world to rectify his mistakes and, so far, has only worsened them to the point that most doubt that a new Xbox will exist at all. Nintendo was on the brink of disaster after the Wii U, and managed to turn their fates around in half the time and with a fraction of the money. Why couldn’t Spencer?

  In all these years, Spencer’s legacy has been of failed deals, shutting down/letting go multiple studios, and moronic attempts at building AAA and GAAS games on the back of seasonal contractors. We should stop blaming Mattrick for things that happened a decade after he left the company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Th EU iniative for Stop Killing Games has reached the goal of 1 million signatures!!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I swear this is not me doomering (I strongly support this campaign and even signed it myself half a year ago), but I strongly suspect that at least a good chunk of those are fake. The issue is very hot in “terminally online” circles and those are the kind of people who don’t really think things through before acting.

  I hope the number will keep on growing until the “legit” votes make up for the fake ones.