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- Comment on In Canada, Nintendo is increasing the price of the original Nintendo Switch. 1 day ago:
Yeah, I agree with you on that.
If discoverability was better, I’m sure Android would way get more ports of good games. With the way it is right now with shovelware and Google pushing microtransaction-riddled crap over one time purchase games, though, it’s treated as a second-class platform because it’s not nearly as profitable as other platforms.
- Comment on In Canada, Nintendo is increasing the price of the original Nintendo Switch. 1 day ago:
Which part of my comment was denigrating indie devs? Indie games are great. Android gaming is not.
If I’m looking for a good non-mobile game, I don’t go looking in the mobile game store. I go looking on PSN or PC, where the focus is on the kind of game that wasn’t designed as a phone-first experience.
The fact that Android has some good traditional games or ports of indie gems isn’t something inherent to Android. The overwhelming majority of thoee games were on PC or console first.
- Comment on In Canada, Nintendo is increasing the price of the original Nintendo Switch. 1 day ago:
Oh, there’s no doubt about that. I’m not disagreeing that Android has some good-looking games. The problem is that games like GRID Legends Mobile are the exception, not the rule.
The Switch is crap, yes.
The Play Store is also overwhelmingly crap, though.If you exclude all of the mobile games from both stores, the Switch simply has a better catalog of games.
- Comment on In Canada, Nintendo is increasing the price of the original Nintendo Switch. 1 day ago:
You’re comparing apples to oranges.
The mobile gaming market is leagues larger than every other market combined. That doesn’t mean the games are even remotely comparable to console games.
It’s an entirely different target audience. Mobile games are focused on quick sessions and design patterns designed to encourage spending money on microtransactions. Games made for the traditional gaming market are mostly designed for longer play sessions with more mechanically complex gameplay. I as well as many others prefer the latter.
Nintendo’s store is full of shovelware, but at least you’ll find more traditional games than just ports of indie hits.
- Comment on In Canada, Nintendo is increasing the price of the original Nintendo Switch. 1 day ago:
The other commenter is really blowing smoke up Android’s ass. Most “top” mobile games are freemium crap riddled with microtransactions.
What it does have, however, is emulators. Including one the Switch itself. Paying $350 for decade-old hardware and $80 for games is just bad value compared to a $300 used S21 and $0 games.
- Comment on Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam 1 day ago:
5.6% of [respondents] users said they wouldn’t pre-order [on Epic] knowing it would influence exclusivity, 2.7% said they would.
They really brought in those big dollars with making Borderlands 3 a timed exclusive on Epic. A whole 9%. Meanwhile, 91.6% of respondents preferred Steam. Bravo, Randy. Bravo.
Disappointingly, 53.9% still would buy it on Steam if it influenced exclusivity going forward. Even if it is Steam—which has a record of providing better service than its competitors—exclusivity helps nobody.
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 2 days ago:
GOG being pushed out of the market. They’re the only store that actually gives you ownership of your games, and they don’t have the same established foothold that Steam does.
It would be all too easy for Microsoft to strangle one of their key markets by taking a loss on sales and offering publishers 150% sales price in exchange for exclusive distribution of 90s and 2000s era PC games.
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 2 days ago:
Steam will end up pushed out of the market
This has been explicitly attempted 3 times already, and that really didn’t work out well for anybody who tried it.
Epic Games Store still resorts to bribing people with free games to keep their monthly active user numbers up, hemorrhaging money to attract users who are rarely interested in anything more than freebies.
EA and Ubisoft tried to forgo Steam releases in favor of their own stores and launchers in an attempt to keep 100% of the revenue. They eventually relented, releasing their games on Steam again. Even Blizzard joined in, adding Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2 to Steam.
And Microsoft’s attempt to dethrone Steam by releasing games through the Windows app store just ended up with Valve funneling considerable resources into helping Linux and WINE become a viable alternative to Windows for gaming.
Unless Valve enshittifies or legal shenanigans ensue, they’re pretty unlikely to be pushed out of the market. No single game or game series is good enough to capture the entire market of Steam users and permanently drive them to alternative platforms. On top of that, Steam has a huge following of users who are loyal to the company, which is both insane and insanely hard to compete against.
or they will also become Streaming Platforms
Maybe, maybe not. I don’t see it happening, though. Valve makes money hand over fist from digital sales alone, and they have more to lose in pissing off their customers by selling subscriptions than they have to gain by selling subscriptions.
I am concerned about GOG and PC hardware prices, though.
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 1 week ago:
going after trump’s businesses will probably avoid a military response
More likely, it makes the poor baby (-hands) cry and throw a tantrum. Being the malignant narcissist he is, he thinks the resources of the United States government are entirely at his disposal.
He’s absolutely going to demand a military response to any attacks on his businesses. Whether saner heads prevail, all we can do is hope.
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 1 week ago:
Nintendo: “hold my beer”
Game key cards are the stupidest idea I have seen in a long time.
- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 1 week ago:
What long weekend? Their asswipe of a boss doesn’t believe in anything but the 80-hour workweek for employees.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 2 weeks ago:
To be fair to Ubisoft, the newest Prince of Persia game was a great metroidvania game.
To be fair-er to Ubisoft, they can go fuck themselves for closing down the studio that made said game only a few months later.
They can make good games. They just clearly would rather rehash the same tired formula that they’ve been running with for the past decade while unreasonably expecting to make more money each time.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Ok, now suppose you want to release a game for any of the modern Nintendo consoles.
You need to get a devkit. To get it, you need Nintendo to approve your request, and you need to pay them for a license to use the devkit hardware. And, to actually use the devkit, you need a PC running Windows.
Sure, to develop a game for PC, you need a PC. But do you know what you don’t need? A devkit or a Windows license.
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- Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Here's for 2 years since I joined Lemmy 4 weeks ago:
One instance? There’s at least two. But does that really matter? Reddit had r/TheDonald and r/conservative, and trying to those people to fuck off and stop proselytizing elsewhere was like trying to play whack-a-mole against an anthill.
Here, you block the tankie instances and move on with your life.
- Comment on X (formerly Twitter) has been experiencing international outages for a second time in a week. 5 weeks ago:
Only one? “Ukrainian liberal trans communists” is probably pretty high up there in his scapegoat list.
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 1 month ago:
Might be. It is definitely a thing, though.
When I used to work for a large American corporation that sold products to consumers, they took it extremely seriously and breaking it would result in disciplinary action. It probably had something to do with advertisement laws.
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 1 month ago:
Corporations drill it deep into your head that you do not positively promote your own products or negatively review competitor products without both making it clear that you (1) work for $Corp; and (2) are sharing your own, personal opinion.
Giving the benefit of the doubt to Plex, they suck at training employees about social media policies.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 1 month ago:
Buddy, quit while you’re
aheadnot too far behind. You’re just proving what @Tattorack@lemmy.world said: you don’t understand the difference between patents, copyright, and trademarks. - Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #14 1 month ago:
Another great post as usual!
For people interested in what’s been going on with Limited Run, here’s a 90-minute video that goes into a lot of detail about the sketchy stuff they did before this latest controversy:
- Comment on Florida's plan to replace migrant workers with children falls apart 1 month ago:
This is so WRONG! We NEED tiny hands to fit into dangerous machinery. The president is too busy doing more IMPORTANT work.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
plus these are benches too it looks like
This part is the most surprising. For something meant to go in urban areas, where’s the hostile architecture? No railings between seats? No spikes?
- Comment on U.S. Secretary of Commerce says the ‘new model’ is factory jobs for life—for you, your kids, and your grandkids 1 month ago:
Well, that’s on me for only reading the summary posted here.
- Comment on U.S. Secretary of Commerce says the ‘new model’ is factory jobs for life—for you, your kids, and your grandkids 1 month ago:
For life? Someone is delusional.
Maybe for 5 years, at most. Humans need food. Humans need breaks. Automated assembly machines? 24/7 production, no annual leave, no insurance plans, and no unionizing.
The up-front cost is much higher, but it’s cheaper in the long run. Good luck keeping that factory job long enough to have kids, let alone pass it down to them.
- Comment on Philosophy moment 2 months ago:
If you do, better hope it’s not loaded.
- Comment on In a Boon for Tesla, Feds Weaken Rules for Reporting on Self-Driving 2 months ago:
In a Musk-approved world:
- You’re hit by a Tesla in FSD mode, the driver gets sued for not driving.
- You’re hit by a fully autonomous Tesla taxi, you get sued for vandalism.
- You’re the driver and FSD hit someone, you get sued.
- You’re the owner and the car hits someone while you’re not in it, you get sued for owning it.
- You’re the owner and it catches fire with you inside, you(r estate) gets sued for “not maintaining it”.
- Comment on China says it wants to partner with Canada to push back against American ‘bullying’ 2 months ago:
As much as I despise the Chinese government and its policies, it does have one thing going for it:
We can do a complete 180 every 4 years, whereas they have a dictator. That stability is looking pretty appealing these days.
- Comment on Nintendo seeks default judgement and $17,500 in damages from pirated game streamer who ignored court summons 2 months ago:
I don’t normally victim-blame, but streaming an unreleased game is really asking for it.
It’s one thing to pirate a game for yourself. That’s just called being poor or being someone who doesn’t believe in copyright. The only party who can argue they’re being harmed is the developer, who may or may not have received a sale otherwise.
It’s another thing to pirate an unreleased game and stream it for others. If you do that and receive ad revenue or donations, you’re profiting off of someone else’s work. Not only that, but you’re also harming the console modding community by incentivizing the developer to go after homebrew developers and emulator developers. It wasn’t a coincidence that shortly after some asshat streamed an unreleased Zelda game, Nintendo came down on Yuzu with an iron fist.
In conclusion, between pirating a game to enjoy yourself and pirating a game to play on a for-profit streaming platform, one of those two things is morally gray and the other is someone being a selfish fuck.
- Comment on China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech 2 months ago:
It’s pretty disheartening to help someone find old media and they show a giant box of USB sticks and hard drives.
Equally disheartening is knowing that both of those have a shelf-life. Old USB flash drives are more durable than the TLC/QLC cells we use today, but 15 years sitting unpowered in a box doesn’t have very good prospects.
