I guess we will just have to agree to disagree on that one. Personally, I think you are giving the Xbox far too much credit.

You clearly missed out on a whole era of shit like Pocket Tanks and Zuma.

When I think of the rise of indie gaming I think about the early 2000s when people could put their game on their own website and things like Steam were coming out. The Xbox doesn’t even cross my mind. Consoles were very much not the realm of indie games until like the Wii U.

The original meaning of indie was independently published. I would think having a publisher would pretty squarely put you in the not indie category.

Warner merged with AOL, so you meant Warner Bros was owned by AOL not Warner. That’s what I was trying to point out.

You are confusing WarnerMedia with Warner Bros. Warner Bros. is the movie studio, WarnerMedia is the now defunct remains of AOL TimeWarner that was bought and then disseminated by AT&T.

Rokus have the same problem regardless of form factor. But this thread is about people who want to use the Steam Machine for streaming.

You should literally never use the apps built in to your TV. Unless you just really like letting the TV manufacturer know exactly what you are watching and when.

On Linux you check the box in Firefox that says Allow DRM Content and then yes, as far as I know, you need to be using laptop or a HDMI display.

For sure it’s been an option since 7, but I feel like I remember there being a way to do something similar in XP.

I am like 97% sure it’s already just a macro key that simulates a press of win+ctrl+c or something like that that can be changed in the registry. They added a bunch of combos that open office apps and shit a while back.

But you can also just pin Terminal or any other app to your taskbar and then press win+[number desired pinned app is away from start button/search/task/whatever].

I’m confused, the Zune and Metro (pre Windows 8, Metro was introduced with the Zune HD and used in Windows Phone) are some of the better things Microsoft has ever produced.

If you said UMPCs, Cortana, Copilot+ I would understand.

Why upgrade when you can get another year of updates? You don’t even have to have a MS account if you know what large rocks to look under.

Bungie made games for Mac originally. The 2003 Mac version isn’t a port, It’s the original game. The PC and Xbox versions are the port. That’s why it feels like it’s behind those. Because it literally did have less development time despite coming out later.

They released another Halo for Mac a few years later that I think is the one the other commenter is talking about. It came out around the time of the MacBook Air and as a result is the only game I know of that has an official no-cd patch.

This reminds me of my first game, a Zelda arrow shooting clone that we built in Microsoft XNA. What was this built in?

I still have my steam-less 1.6 installer somewhere.

Because the Xbox was built in secret while Microsoft and Sega collaborated on the Dreamcast. It’s actually somewhat compatible with Dreamcast games but MS never wanted to allow that feature.

Also the Duke is the only comfortable controller I have ever used.

It’s weird, there is a long history of these kinds of games getting a console release going all the way back to SimCity for Super Nintendo. IIRC it could optionally use the Mario Paint mouse.

They have always been this way:

Although Sony ultimately did not win any of its lawsuits against them, Bleem! had to shut down when the huge court costs became too much for the small company to handle. Bleem! shut down in November 2001…

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I was so excited when I finally had a machine that could run Crysis at full graphics settings.

Just for clarification the Wii, Wii U, 360, and PS3 all used the Cell Broadband Engine which is a PowerPC derivative. The original PowerPC was made by the AIM Alliance which stands for Apple, IBM, Motorola. Apple and Motorola had a long history of collaboration as all Apple machines had used Motorola processors up to that point.

That’s not my point though. I was just saying that the rich people of the world really do seem totally okay with the idea of a class of people who cannot afford anything.

I think they do think that though. Companies seem to have realized they can make more money with less sales by pricing the lowest bidding consumer group out of the market.

Sega even had an earlier console in 1983 called the SG-1000. It was only released in Japan though.

Why would they use PWM to drive an LED in a DC circuit when they could just drop the voltage to make it dimmer?

You’re right! But that means it will be HL2: Episode 2: Episode 1, just to bring things full circle.

I played through recently and I beat it but I distinctly remember thinking that I didn’t remember it being that hard. It took me several tries and very precise timing, I think I even ended up coming back to it the next day.

Glad they are fixing it, though it makes it hard not to speculate more about an upcoming sequel. I think they will call it HL2 Episode 3 just to fuck with everyone.

That Xbox would become Microsoft’s Steam has been the prevailing prediction for the better part of 10 years. I am immediately dubious of anybody who’s opinion is that a more capable than the Xbox device (as far as availability of games) has no reason to be purchased.

Baby steps. Epic originally sued Apple because they couldn’t sell access to Fortnight outside of the App Store.

My main point was that Sony shouldn’t get special treatment.

I mean… if Apple has to allow side-loading and alternative app stores then I think Sony should have to as well. It wouldn’t make sense to say that only Apple has dominion over the devices it makes and no other manufacturers operate the same.

there hadn’t really been decades of enshittification of gaming at that point

I would argue that is exactly what companies like Softkey and PopCap were doing well before 2009.

Microsoft wanted to start tracking logins and program launches well before Windows 8 but were prevented from including things like the .Net Passport in Windows XP due to an injunction in 1998.

Even crap like BonziBuddy was getting slapped on the wrist for collecting information on people under 13 in 2004.

FarmVille was just one of the first to get away with it.

I think I would be more okay with having to undo a screw or two as long as it was still just as easy to get the battery out. The way the Advance SP and DSs handled it. Lithium batteries are slightly more unfriendly to being handled than AAs and this is a device aimed at children. Your point stands though.

I am not sure. FarmVille seems to me more like the logical (for capitalism) conclusion of decades of enshitification in the casual gaming space.

Games for attention harvesting had been tried before too. MSN Messenger and AIM both had built in social games with ad space back when they were the shit. Windows ME, XP, and Vista even shipped with some of them built in.

Where I am from several years ago the city renamed the Christmas Parade to Holiday Parade in a bid to be inclusive of other winter holidays. A small subset of citizens got butt hurt and have held a competing Christmas Parade several times.

Apparently the war on Christmas is acknowledging that there are other options.

It’s based on Wine/Crossover. EXE compatibility came literally decades before DirectX compatibility.

This conversation is surreal because you don’t seem to understand how disagreement works. You said the price makes sense, I am saying it doesn’t. You are free to end the discussion there if you wish but I am going to keep responding to the person who keeps acting like their opinion is fact;

Tegra GPUs are specifically cost reduced, low power versions of previous generations of GeForce GPUs. The one in the Switch 2 has been rumored to be based on the 3000 series but I have not seen any confirmation of that as yet. I feel like you are making my point for me, you keep saying that everything else costs the same so why should this one cheaper part matter… and my response is because it’s cheaper. Note the lack of PCI and Thunderbolt for instance. There is also no Windows license to worry about.

If you don’t want to reply then don’t but seriously it seems like you are getting upset solely because somebody has a differing opinion.

Then it seems we got off on the wrong foot when you called my disagreement meaningless.

RISC has always been fundamentally cheaper than x86 which is one reason why Nintendo has used a RISC processor in all of their handheld consoles since the original GameBoy.

Your last sentence is pretty much my point though. There is no reason for that. Look at the iPad and the Mac Mini, look at the Raspberry Pi… there is no reason for a RISC machine to cost more than an x86 machine.

Your response was to Simple’s comment about price. From my reading it seemed that you were implying that the price was right because the performance was similar. I was agreeing with Simple and disagreeing with that perceived implication based on the fact that it uses a different and historically cheaper architecture. One that would typically make a dollar per hertz comparison useless, as you seem to have pointed out. Hence my confusion.

there are other aspects that impact performance, so you can’t make assumptions based on that

That is literally what I have been trying to say this whole time in response to you saying it looks comparable. I genuinely have no idea what you are arguing against at this point.

Huh? I’m not sure you understand what I was saying so I am just going to leave these links here:

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I would have bet real money if you had asked me yesterday that it would have been limited to 1080p to reduce cost. I am very curious to know more about how it actually performs in each setting, how much of it is upscaling, etc. I imagine that most 4k games won’t have much in the way of better graphics than the Switch 1, the higher memory bandwidth could help with higher res textures though.