Zedstrian
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- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 6 days ago:
Unlike physical cartridges, a digital, emulated copy of FireRed has no resale or collector’s value. Also, as the primary cost in developing such titles is the emulator, Nintendo could release additional GBA games in this manner with minimal additional effort.
Considering those factors, and the Switch having a higher install base than prior systems (over ten times Wii U unit sales), maintaining the Wii U and 3DS price points is the most reasonable means for Nintendo to monetize their back catalogue in a way that makes piracy less enticing for many people: $3 per GB, $4 per GBC, $5 per NES, $7-8 per GBA, $8 per SNES, $10 per N64, and $20 per Wii game price point.
Given that each console only requires an emulator to be developed once (something Nintendo has already done for NSO) to support hundreds of paid titles, there’s no need to increase prices when the games will sell several times more than they had any chance to on the Wii U.
Given how many games NSO includes, they could continue offering them that way for people who prefer renting their library. Consumers want meaningful options; pricing a GBA game at $20 is not that.
- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 6 days ago:
Blind consumer loyalty only incentivizes Nintendo to further raise prices and make their products less consumer friendly.
Piracy simply demonstrates a problem with supply; if Nintendo wants to solve it, the solution isn’t trying to cuts heads off of a hydra, but rather adjust prices to capture unrealized market potential.
- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 6 days ago:
If a company shows no respect for its consumers by nickel and diming them for everything, then there is no reason to show a company respect by purchasing its products.
If they re-released their entire back catalogue at reasonable prices—not locking them behind a subscription—with a commitment to letting users transfer them to future consoles without an upgrade fee, then things would be different.
- Comment on Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial 6 days ago:
Alternative to CBS.
- Comment on I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes 1 week ago:
Clickbaity headline, but good article.
- Comment on Where Does Community Live? 1 week ago:
An ActivityPub server-as-community has sanctions but lacks the prior steps: rules aren’t visible to outsiders and monitoring is purely reactive,
Compare this to Reddit, where arriving at a subreddit immediately presents the community’s identity as a first-class interface element: its name, description, rules, moderators, visual identity. The community is a navigable object that you can encounter, evaluate, and choose to join.
Lemmy communities are no different from subreddits in having a sidebar with rules, moderator lists; they even go a step further in making modlogs public. The way the article is written makes it seem like the author didn’t actually test the software they wrote about.
- Comment on Let's Play The Trolley Solution - Isekai'd by Trolley-kun 1 week ago:
Seems to have lots and lots and lots of filler in an attempt to justify its price tag; they should have halved the content and just made it really good for $5.
- Comment on Blocking Threads 1 week ago:
By block I meant defederate, as described in my post, rather than a user-level block. Just clarified the title; apologies for the confusion.
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- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 1 week ago:
Walker suggested that American companies could collaborate with European firms to implement measures ensuring data protection.
Simultaneously, those same companies are actively lobbying the EU to dismantle those protections.
- Comment on DoorDashers are getting paid to close Waymo's self-driving car doors 1 week ago:
Clearly that’s why it’s called DoorDash. /s
- Comment on DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE 2 weeks ago:
With streaming companies owning the content, buying DVDs is just another way of financially supporting the same companies for worse quality.
Even when one platform is taken down, there are new ones launched in their place. Nothing guarantees that DVDs will continue to be produced in perpetuity, just as digital copies of video games are progressively becoming less and less prevalent.
- Comment on UNITED24 Donors 3 weeks ago:
Welcome to Lemmy! Thanks for sharing; the cause is worthwhile, but you’re being downvoted here because your post is off-topic. Always try to post to a community suited to the topic of your thread, such as !ukraine@sopuli.xyz in this case.
- Comment on Epstein files leak personal passwords including #1Island and ghislaine 3 weeks ago:
Potential evidence being destroyed just by giving the Internet access to it.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on Steam Quietly Withdraws Under Fire MMO Ashes of Creation From Sale As Fans Wonder Who's Left to Maintain the Servers 3 weeks ago:
We might have to wait until their announcement on the 13th to know more, but if the launching of new merch and discussions of overseas development is anything to go by, they might not be canceling it, but rather replacing the entire development team with a new one, all the while implementing microtransactions everywhere.
They’ll have lost most of the public’s goodwill in the process for doing so though.
- Comment on Campaigners challenge Scottish policy on transgender inmates in female prisons 3 weeks ago:
The extent of transphobia in the UK is disgusting.
- Comment on Steam Quietly Withdraws Under Fire MMO Ashes of Creation From Sale As Fans Wonder Who's Left to Maintain the Servers 3 weeks ago:
Unless the monetization announcements are false, it would seem that they sold their souls to private equity, who have now turned around to milk the game for profits.
- Comment on You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift 3 weeks ago:
Any remnant of Copilot left anywhere on the operating system is still a loss for the user and their privacy. Microsoft still wants user data, so they’re not going to be getting rid of Copilot any time soon.
- Comment on Firefox's AI Kill Switch Lands in Firefox Nightly, Slated for Firefox 148 3 weeks ago:
Improving webapp functionality rather than stuffing more and more AI down our throats, for instance.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 3 weeks ago:
Most Switch games run well on the Steam Deck; I just wish someone would fix Starlink: Battle for Atlas emulation so that I can play as Fox, which I can’t on the Steam version.
- Comment on Neocities deindexed from Bing 4 weeks ago:
1.5 million websites that, whether obscure or not, deserve to be indexed no less than the many obscure GitHub pages that Microsoft is sure to index.
- Comment on TikTok faces app deletions, censorship claims and glitches in days after its ownership change 4 weeks ago:
The Associated Press shouldn’t take their ‘glitch’ claims at face value.
- Comment on Neocities deindexed from Bing 4 weeks ago:
Neocities; Geocities is dead.
- Comment on US has told Ukraine it must sign peace deal with Russia to get security guarantees, source says 4 weeks ago:
If all Trump and his cronies will do is victim blame Ukraine, their security guarantee is worthless from the get go.
- Comment on Bought a 3DS XL last year 4 weeks ago:
The N3DS differences are one are improved 3D consistency via face tracking, a limited number of system exclusives (Minecraft, Fire Emblem Warriors, Runbow Pocket, Xenoblade Chronicles, and digital-only games), games with N3DS enhancements (including Hyrule Warriors and Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, with most improvements being faster loading times, C-stick support (too small to be usable in my opinion), home menu access for certain games, and the ZR/ZL buttons), and the SNES virtual console.
- Comment on Data centers are facing an image problem. The tech industry is spending millions to rebrand them. 4 weeks ago:
Any data center marketer who claims that electricity prices will go down as a result is lying through their teeth.
- Comment on r/Silksong joins lemmy! 4 weeks ago:
It’s good to know when Reddit moderators see the light and help transition their communities over before Reddit interferes. !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com is another example of that.
- Comment on US | Justice Department may weaken gun rules to placate Second Amendment activists: report 5 weeks ago:
Yet another example of the rampant transphobia being propagated by Republicans.
- Comment on Ideas for a better Lemmy experience 5 weeks ago:
A new user might come along and post something that revives interest in it. What Lemmy needs are more users to increase activity.
New users are unlikely to be interested in immediately committing to maintaining a community with regular posts and moderation over a long period of time, but might be willing to contribute to existing communities. Better to have dormant communities that can be revived than to have a lack of topics for new users to contribute to.