Same, I was excited to relive some of my childhood memories flipping through issues of Nintendo Power, but it doesn’t seem to be working.

But you don’t need a box or a subscription. Some TVs (like my Sony TV I recently bought) support it right out of the box. And the subscription was only to get free games every month and 4k streaming instead of 1080p. If you owned a game, you could stream it all you want in 1080p with no subscription.

It also let you play the same games across multiple devices without needing additional hardware. I could Cyberpunk on multiple TVs in the house, my PC, or even my phone.

How is it technically unfeasible? Stadia worked fine. I have a good Internet connection that was hardwired to my Chromecast and I honestly couldn’t tell a performance difference between playing games on it and the Xbox sitting under my TV.

Not necessarily. That basically just meant that there would be no more first-party exclusive games for it. The expectation was that they would continue to receive ports and third party games, as they have in the year and half since announcing the internal development studio was closing. Literally half of Stadia’s life…

I was thinking the same thing. They worked long hours for years on this and their product is literally garbage, now. That must be a massive letdown.

I don’t know anything about how it is in Japanese, but I think the thing about FF13 is many RPGs give you a little in-game guide to the world that gets updated with stuff as you go and encounter different places, people, enemies, etc. It’s usually completely skippable and just there for people who want some more…

Okay, what do they represent? What problem do they solve? Is there a single use-case that is better than traditional technology?

I’m not sure I understand the term. Weren’t Beanie Babies “Millennial Beanie Babies”? That’s the generation who wanted them back in the 90s. I mean I guess their parents were the ones going overboard and filling rooms with them, but I’m an older Millennial and I remember the kids just a few years younger than me were…

Trevor is the Almost Politically Correct Redneck meme.

I think I might have gotten summoned as a hunter in this kind of situation yesterday. I arrived, fought the invader for a while, with neither of us managing to kill the other, eventually a second hunter showed up and joined in. The invader eventually rolled off a cliff trying to dodge and accidentally killed himself,…

I first encountered and beat him yesterday. I was kind of surprised how easy he was after constantly hearing about how hard the fight was. It only took me three or four tries. The first time I died from not knowing a certain mechanic of the fight that can one-shot you. The second time, I just missed the timing on an…

Forza is somehow able to have hundreds of cars from countless manufacturers and doesn’t have to have a microtransaction model. I’m pretty sure it’s not licensing costs, it’s just greed.

But none of that makes sense. You “own” it but it still has to be hosted somewhere. The blockchain is far too inefficient to host actual content (that’s part of the decentralization, no one’s in charge but it absurdly inefficient compared to a centralized server). So, it just hosts a ledger that can contain links to…

I’m not even convinced that NFTs have a place. It’s a solution looking for a problem. Any example people use as to why it’s a good technology is better done by an application with a central server. I have yet to hear a single example of something that would be improved with NFTs.

Not in North America. They’re almost the same. PS5 gets a boost because it sells well in Japan and Xbox doesn’t at all. Looking a the numbers, the Series X|S has actually outsold the PS5 in North America.

I don’t see that happening at all. The Series X/S has sold almost the same number of units as the PS5 in North America. It’s one of their most successful systems to date. I don’t see them moving everything to XCloud in lieu of new hardware any time soon. I wouldn’t rule out XCloud becoming the new “casual tier” and…

I had noticed this too after I turn off my Xbox but leave the game running and then come back later. As far as I could tell, it was something to do with the console going into standby with the game still active. It was always fixed if I just dropped out to the Xbox menu and manually quit the game by selecting the icon…

There was also a vegetable vendor that was called Llysiau Greens (llysiau is “vegetables” in Welsh). As someone who knows a small amount of Welsh, I appreciated those little things.

+1 to this. I enjoyed Torna more than Xenoblade Chronicles 2. In addition to the better protagonist of being a not overly sexualized woman who’s older than Rex, its battle system worked better and the story felt more concise. 2 felt overly bloated and the battle system was pretty much just “next press this button”…