All the ubisoft talk about an investor wanting to make them go private reminded me of this
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All the ubisoft talk about an investor wanting to make them go private reminded me of this
I know there was some talk about AMD being trash and stuff but I saw this yesterday and it made more sense as to why they weren't going to bother with "high end" gpus
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They're merging their Data Center & Consumer GPUs into one architecture instead of having two different types
You also have to remember that the $400 is the entry level one and that Valve also has more higher end versions. Valve even talked about the margins on it being "painful". So it's one thing if that's one of the SKUs that you have but it's a completely different thing if that's is the only SKU that you have and if you are selling millions at that price. Or maybe they got a really good deal on their components, but I'm sure that even those have risen in price over the last few years.
Screw it. I have to look back at my previous guess but as of now I'm guessing that the Switch 2 will start at $450. I very likely will be wrong bug why not.
As for the Steam Deck at $400, remember that's without a dock of any kind. And if Nintendo wants to do another hybrid system, it's going to need a dock of some sort.
Maybe they will have a docked version and dockless version? Since you will just be able to buy it as an accessory.
Which Rune Factory on PC is worth the current price? I need something for remote play.
Also hate game that have timers and time gated things.
RF5 is the cheapest while RF3S is the most expensive. RF4S is in between.
Also hate game that have timers and time gated things.
RF5 is the cheapest while RF3S is the most expensive. RF4S is in between.
Rune Factory 4S, absolutely. An all time great of the farming genre!
If you can't vibe with RF4S' dated graphics though, RF5 isn't terrible at that heavily reduced price.
I also haven't played any Rune Factory games before, and the new one looks like a full-on JRPG with farming? Looks really cool.
Guardians of Azuma is a spin off. 6 is also in development. I started on 3 last night.
I hope they remaster 1, 2, Frontier and Tides of Destiny at some point.
I hope they remaster 1, 2, Frontier and Tides of Destiny at some point.
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For this that can't see it. It's a chart about Sony. Saying his Sony fell off after Condor, only to reach new heights with AstroBot, only to achieve an even lower level with announcing the price of the PS5 Pro.
In the last week it's been. Real big rollercoaster for them. With very big highs and very big lows.
They're all technically JRPGs (specifically, Japanese action RPGs); Rune Factory's original conceit was that it was Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons, but with stats, equipment and combat.
Play Rune Factory 4! Preferably on a handheld of some sort, Steam Deck or Switch. Good times guaranteed.
while still havingh big investments from their owner ... so indie in name only ... so people stop complainingMintrocket who developed Dave the Diver was tired hearing about the game not being indie, so they became indie:
[단독] 넥슨 '민트로켓' 결국 독립한다…투자로 지원 계속
넥슨이 ‘데이브 더 다이브’ 제작 스튜디오인 민트로켓을 독립시키는 쪽으로 방침을 세웠다. 물적분할로 분리하는 방식이 아니라 넥슨에서 퇴사하게 될 민트로켓 개발자들이 세울 독립 법인에 넥슨이 투자하는 형태다. 민트로켓n.news.naver.com
For real!
I've tried the MH Rise+Sunbreak demo last night and was a bit unimpressed. Somehow, I was expecting the combat to be more like Horizon ZD, instead it kind of lacks any "physicality". I wonder whether it's a matter of being an underpowered Switch game, or it's a japanese-jank style choice.
And unfortunately, I can't compare it with a MH World demo.
Based on what little I tried of Rise, World feels heavier in general than Rise, so if you prefer heavier combat, World may be more for you than Rise.For real!
I've tried the MH Rise+Sunbreak demo last night and was a bit unimpressed. Somehow, I was expecting the combat to be more like Horizon ZD, instead it kind of lacks any "physicality". I wonder whether it's a matter of being an underpowered Switch game, or it's a japanese-jank style choice.
And unfortunately, I can't compare it with a MH World demo.
Though, worth noting that each weapon type feels very different from each other, if you don't like the combat of one weapon type, there may be another that better suits your tastes.
I don't know if heavier is the right word. I generally prefer ranged and speed. What I failed to describe with "physicality" was, like, you hit a monster and you get the same "hurt" animation, regardless of where and how you hit. Maybe it was just that specific monster, or the weapons I used. I'll try again though, because I'm still curious and attracted to the game!
Wonder how DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince will do today
Thank you! I will be picking up one next sale. Too many JRPGs in the library now
I hope it does well. I love DQ4 and beat it twice on the DS. Psaro's story was great.
This looks cool. Looks like RE2 Remake but with PS1 style graphics and more emphasis on action.
The figures.
Sony: The games on our Amateur console look and run shit, please buy our 800 buck Professional console instead!
Sony: Europe is whatever.
It's the tried and successful Microsoft Strategy of fucking over Europe and concentrating on the US. Worked wonders for Microsoft.
It's not like that the base PS5 is already behind in sales and that the 6% that the PS5 is ahead in the US is completely negated by the abysmal sales in Europa, Japan and rest of the world. Making the PS5 already 2 million units behind worldwide.
Sony: Europe is whatever.
It's the tried and successful Microsoft Strategy of fucking over Europe and concentrating on the US. Worked wonders for Microsoft.
It's not like that the base PS5 is already behind in sales and that the 6% that the PS5 is ahead in the US is completely negated by the abysmal sales in Europa, Japan and rest of the world. Making the PS5 already 2 million units behind worldwide.
But in the end, all that matter is the shiny numbers at the end of the year, and that they do have. Also why I don't believe for a second that Nintendo ever needs to be "competitive" for anything, ever.
It's the same thing that happened with streaming services, they don't give a shit about the world as long as the dividends are good enough.
Now does that mean that they're giving up on their own market, let alone forsaking any hope of expanding, just like Japanese mobile got destroyed by China's and never even tried to go beyond the country?
Well yes.
But it's not an "unrealized potential" or "letting competitors create a market many times bigger than what we have", nor "giving up on entire generations of players that do not, and never will care about our products" until the collapse already happened. And that's the thing with maximizing profits like they are: it's very good at resisting collapse, sucking dry a shrinking market is something that capitalism is efficient for.
That's why I say that capitalism is bad at capitalism. It's only good at running everything into the ground until they need to socialize the losses of the too big to fail companies and people involved.
Something random, but man it’s so nice living 3 minutes away from the cinema. It took me literally 5 minutes to step outside my door to be in the seat in the cinema.
That must be nice. If I want to go to a decent movie theater, I have to drive 40 minutes there and 40 minutes back. And it cost me ~$9USD in gas just to go. I would take the bus there but the issue is that most of the movies that I'm interested in watching like anime movies don't start until 7:00PM and typically ends around 9:00PM and the last bus to go back to my town is at 5:00PM
Most of the movies I go to watch there are anime movies and I go at least once a month, sometime even multiple times.
Good price. will buy after im done with the rune factory games.
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I think for Nintendo its also a little different compared to Sony. Sony makes a ton of $$$ via GaaS on their platform being COD, Genshin, Fortnite etc. For Sony its not the end of the world if PS5Pro flops or even the PS6 starts off slow. They will still have dozens of of millions of users playing GaaS across PS4/PS5. They can even afford to be slow with their own 1st party releases.
Nintendo on the other hand probably makes some $$$ here n there with GaaS but their strategy is still centered around releasing a lot of 1st party games every year. Some of those games aren't AAA by any means so they benefit greatly by having a large install base. I would bet their strategy for the next 10 years is going to center around Switch 2 selling 150 million units just like the first Switch. I don't think Nintendo can particularly risk shoving out a 500$ or 600$ handheld that doesn't reach that high install base again. I think they have to be price competitive and not even in terms of competing against Playstation/Xbox but more so to retain their playerbase without pricing them out.
Now there is the other side of the coin with that as Nintendo may be thinking Switch 2 will be powerful enough that they would also get ports of all the popular big GaaS games and their revenue off that stuff will drastically increase. But they've never been that type of company to pursue such a 3rd party strategy. They always look out for themselves first. There is a lot of risk for Nintendo. If they price the Switch 2 too high they will start running into the same problems Xbox and PS5 are having now. If they go too hard on some stupid gimmick again they risk a WiiU situation. They need consistency and continuation of the current Switch. But all of that applies to the hardware pricing as well imo.
Me and my brother share our libraries so being able to play on his even when he's using it is huge for me.
Getting increasingly frustrated for missing that GMG price mistake for Metaphor. I can't afford it at the prices I'm seeing right now.
Getting increasingly frustrated for missing that GMG price mistake for Metaphor. I can't afford it at the prices I'm seeing right now.
the activity tracker, even if it's meant for just controlling kids, could be of general use. Hope they eventually export that as its own thing
I live less than a mile from two cinemas but those are always packed and they're ass anyway.
I have a 20 min walk to our Cinema
The last time I was in there, was when Star Trek Nemesis released. I asked the ticket seller if there are still enough tickets for the showing (it was a few days after it released here) and she laughed and asked me which seat I wanted.
There were maybe 5-10 people when the film started.
I never set a foot into the Cinema ever again...
The last time I was in there, was when Star Trek Nemesis released. I asked the ticket seller if there are still enough tickets for the showing (it was a few days after it released here) and she laughed and asked me which seat I wanted.
There were maybe 5-10 people when the film started.
I never set a foot into the Cinema ever again...
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But why? That's the greatest experience!
I go to a local cinema thats been here for almost 80 years and the OV shows are almost always entirely empty.
I watched Alien: Romulus with 5 other peope, Furiosa with 3.
The only time it was ever full in the last 7 years was Oppenheimer with all 50 seats taken.
It's great having a Kino entirely to yourself.
I do appreciate empty cinemas, but one of my best cinema experiences was first showing of Endgame in a full huge cinema in Paris. It was so much fun!
Valve patents Steam Sales system ("SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMICALLY DETERMINING EVENT CONTENT ITEMS")
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I mean, it literally says you do not need to link an EGS account to play online. So yes, they did.
DID YOU LEARN NOTHING FROM EDF6 RELEASE?!?!?!
Might give Lollipop a chance once a OST restoration mod drops.
Looking at Steams forums for a moment is just dreary. People are so obsessed with games being woke and what nonsense.
Looking at Steams forums for a moment is just dreary. People are so obsessed with games being woke and what nonsense.
ughhgughguhguhgugughughguhgh plans changedd, have a work in progress !!!!
gonna also add an uplift spice reference somewhere
gonna also add an uplift spice reference somewhere
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