I doubt it’s going to be a problem. It wasn’t for the ~10 years of regular cell phones before the smartphone, it wasn’t for the first 10 years of smartphones when swappable batteries were more common, and it still isn’t for the smartphones that allow swappable batteries today.

I don’t care that they allow for it, but I think the rechargeable packs should come with new controllers.

Cool. People have gotten a Switch to run on AAs, and you’ll need 15 to get it to sit on the Home Screen without dying and either many more or much more powerful batteries to actually play a game, nevermind how long they would actually last.

I get the risk, but by the same logic as your analogy, why do or own anything? Everything you own or do has *some* level of inherent risk to it, so that’s a pretty piss-poor way of thinking imo.

“Why didn’t he rape her? What an idiot.“

Yep. It’s totally illegal and the company will be punished*

But unlike PC, consoles still have a fairly robust physical market (for now), at least for the big name games. Plus you can pick up digital codes in lots of alternative storefronts like Best Buy/Amazon/Gamestop, often for less than what the game is for sale in the Xbox Store if you look around a bit.

“those devices require a certain level of technical competency to fill with ROM files (digital copies of games once distributed on cartridges or discs) which also aren’t easy to acquire”

The concept seems really cool overall but despite being a “pixel” game it is at the level of detail where it feels more like 00s flash game more than what I think of personally when I think “pixel”. To me it loses that feel once you get past the SNES/Genesis level of detail. Not that they need to follow palette rules…

...really?

You’re probably right. But on the other hand, a more robust public transit system eliminates the need for self-driving cars almost entirely. A network of ten 30ft buses with an average load of 38 people (the average load reported by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency) would total 380 passengers. The…

To quote Iago in Aladdin:

I dunno, Japan and China are easily the largest creator of video games (idk if they are actually higher or lower than the USA currently or historically but those are the big 3) and they have just as many issues with this as the US does. You’re unlikely to find most Japanese games still available digitally or through…

Hell yeah we do. And a PC release while they are at it. And hell how about some other quality of life improvements?

It isn't "basically" nothing, it is just nothing lol. 

It's only a matter of time until the atmosphere around Earth reaches "Planetes" status.

That doesn't really necessitate the pin boys though lol

For all modern games talk about "omg look at all the graphics!" They really do struggle in that particular area and it bugs me. 

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I frequent a fair number of gaming sites/communities and I must say, it doesn’t really seem like anyone other than Kotaku is making FF16 out to be some big controversial thing.