Switch 2 is selling at a faster rate than Switch 1 did at this stage in its lifecycle. The OG Switch is on track to be the best selling console of all time.

I’d imagine that this is entirely happening because xbox has collapsed amongst Microsoft loudly conceding this console generation and heavily suggesting future support for their consoles will be limited. This is catastrophic in an era when many people buy digital copies of games and do not want to be locked in to a dead platform. I bought a 2nd hand Series S as a budget console but will only buy games for it on deep discount or if they have a low sticker price; the result of that has been that it has turned into a retro games platform for me to play SSX3 and the old Dead Or Alive games.

PS5 Pro is too expensive for limited gains while the market for the OG PS5 will be saturated by this point. I’d guess that the release of GTA6 will increase sales next year though.

Game dev is predatory because people can and will do it for free. Many “dream jobs” have this issue.

It was like 5 years ago but I heard a family friend working there was making 27k as a mid level dev.

Maybe they are just a company… Idk how people even developed a parasocial relationship with it

This seems like a problem that will self-correct. The way Schrier has phrased the headline makes it sound like the industry is a monolith with a comitee leading it.

I hope they don’t nerf anything else. I was grinding through Sister Sledge (or whatever the boss is called) and I’d nearly done it. Then patch 1 came out and I did it first time. I feel robbed of the achievement.

Tweaking the rosary economy is ok however there is a clear lore reason why it is less generous initially.

preach

Just in time for Sony to release another Overwatch-like destined for the scrap heap

Ooft as if I needed fewer reasons to buy a PS5 Pro

Seems a bit harsh to gun someone down over a speed running competition

Most definitely a budget title in terms of scope and production values but he’s priced it at around that level too. Being honest, I’m not going to get more than 20-30 puzzles into it but that’s still a good value proposition.

I think his video on the original DMC is also worth a watch if anyone is looking for some (very) longform content.

Not too interested until I can sit down in my house and sink 100 hours into it uninterrupted. Happy for the devs to take their time.

Better watch out for Japanese whaling vessels lol

Do we need experts to tell us what the average enthusiastic gamer has been saying for years?

I got the light version of this as a joke birthday present. It plugs into a USB slot and makes an anemic light source. Haven’t used it much in summer but it might have some limited utility in winter.

Nabbed: Ninja Gaiden Collection, Auto Modellista, DOA6

Bonus game: Not really on sale (10% off) but Burggeist after seeing it in the new Iron Pineapple video. I’m a sucker for games inspired by Team Ico.

I also found it underwhelming which is a shame because I generally love Obsidian RPGs. They did a much better job with Avowed recently in my opinion.

Weasling out of things is what separates us from the animals… except the weasel of course.

Yeah this could have padded out the repetitive side content

Ty I was misremembering

Wasn’t Alyx a shadow drop? Might be misremembering

“Euphoria” has been popping up on my news feeds more frequently in the past decade or so. First jokingly, like the /r/atheism post that got a lot of mockery, “in this moment I am euphoric…” But now in a more traditional sense of the word in articles like this. It’s interesting because I’d always associated it with intoxication, like it is a private experiential state that an individual has entered, so it had a slight negative connotation but obviously there are these positive situations for using the word too.

A linguistics student should write a dissertation on semantic shifts for words online (I’m sure this has already been done by someone).

Wasteland 3 is objectively better but I missed some of the janky charm of 2 when I played it.

Take my opinion with a pinch of salt since I only got halfway through each of them.

If you have a prime account this is just you getting the full value out of the subscription. Yeah, they are a scummy company (and apparently terrible to work for too at every level) but lots of households have prime because there isn’t another service that offers exactly the same things.

Is it a mistranslation and they mean intellij intellisense or something?

What changes the nature of a man?

Puts on tinfoil hat

They are waiting for shark card sales to slow down before releasing the next one so they optimise profits

I’m getting one on launch. Love my OG switch and got many cherished hours of gaming out of it.

Ok happy to agree to disagree. Have a nice weekend too!

I was referring to a sole proprieter situation. Like I’m a web dev and I could start a PLC, then I could work on a contract basis with whomever I wanted to. At that point I am assuming risk in terms of choosing the correct clients to get involved with and receiving increased financial renumeration.

I don’t understand why you can’t set up your own business if you want to take the risk yourself.

Like going to the bank and asking for a loan to start a new business would be the textbook example of taking on risk.

Companies can make a lot of money + pay shareholders without ever declaring profits. Look at Amazon for a case of weird accounting.

More generally, I also disagree with this idea because the incentives to become an employer would be decreased and ultimately it’s the business owners who are taking risks.

They made their own emulator for N64 on NSO that performs worse than the FOSS ones in a variety of ways so previously they’ve not done this.

In one important way they are consumer friendly in terms of keeping physical media alive. I doubt PS6 will have a disc drive and M$ have already confirmed any new consoles from them won’t.

Even these proposed “game key” carts can presumably be traded or sold so it isn’t like a single use key for the online store.

Thanks I think you saved me from making a bad purchase

I saw a 256GB one on Amazon UK for £22. Might pick it up now in case there are shortages or the price skyrockets. That plus the system memory would be 512GB of storage and I tend to buy physical games too.

Edit: The one I was looking at wasn’t even the Express version. Lots of people are gong to get stung by this.

Edit 2: there are some micro SD cards marked Extreme but these are not compatible with switch 2 despite the name being similar to the Express ones.

Exclusive to switch 2 is nuts. I can’t believe we are getting BloodBorne 2.

Probably Metroid Prime but some days I think it is Dark Souls 1. Both are similar in terms of trying to embody an adventure with strong environmental storh telling.

Dungeon Keeper 2 is good in its own way but definitely lost some of its original magic.

There was an indie series called Overlord (I think, can’t quite recall) which tried to be a Cities: Skyline type homage to Dungeon Keeper. I played it many years ago and it did scratch the same itch so you might be interested.

There is something satisfying about going back and cranking Far Cry 2 or some other older game to max settings / 4k with an extremely modest GPU.