Investors without which these companies could not upfront the cost of developing a new game. Also, for every game that comes out, about 5-10 are canceled in stages so early that we don’t get to see anything of them (but nevertheless canceled and written off - those devs and additional costs have to be covered too).
I…

The market has grown, but so has the number of games that this additional revenue is divided upon.
You can look back in time, and 20-30 years ago, there were only a handful of very good games each year, blockbuster titles everybody was waiting for. Now you even have multiple quite good, high-caliber games in each…

Graphics fidelity has gone WAY up. Where previously a handful of artists worked on a title, nowadays there are easily hundreds, sometimes over 1000 people involved in getting a single game out of the door (try to read the credits for any current Forza Horizon title).
Compare that with No Mans Sky which - due to its…

The TÜV isn’t overkill, it is too lenient in a lot of ways, and maybe a tad strict in some where it wouldn’t have to be.
Even so, there are a lot of shady dealers who sell cars with forged TÜV inspections, and in quite a few cases they get away with it because they tend to sell cars “im Kundenauftrag”, or basically…

Sony actually made most of their (over 20) acquisitions in 2020 onward too.
Before that, they relied heavily on timed or full exclusives due to paying other companies a load of money. See Square and the Final Fantasy series, longtime PS staple (though apparently the reason why the PC port of FF7 took so long rested…

nah, absolutely not. They would not even reach parity compared to Sonys acqusitions since the Playstation1-days. Sony is the undisputed king of exclusives, timed exclusives, bonus deals (items only for sony customers) and buying studios outright.

The base 1.8 NC weighed 1155KG, the base 1.6 NA 955KG. Thats 200kg, or 440lbs in my book.
It is closer to the NB, which weighed in at 1090kg (lots of strengthening in the body, p.ex. the double-walled front engine rails, which tend to rust because of the construction :P ) Still, 143pounds less than the NC.
The ND then…

I know that it is a capable car after some mods, seen a race series with just NCs flying around, and it looked like lots of fun.
Drove a stock one though from a coworker, and it was... I don’t know, somewhat mushy? It also felt like the beltline was somehow higher, and you were more sitting in a “tub”.
Again,…

Mazda tried building a bigger Miata with the NC.
It was the worst one by far, and good NAs and even now NBs are costing more than their newer siblings on the used market here. For a reason.
Yes, it was a capable car, but somewhat bloated and mushy.
Thankfully they corrected that with the ND.

See, even in Europe, people add 2-stroke-oil to their Diesels in order to make them burn cleaner and have less wear and noise. And on some it apparently works, according to the discussions in forums that have been going on for decades. YMMV though.

Some SSDs only have one chip on them and the rest is just a blank pcb with no traces apart from a huge ground plane, just so they fit in longer slots of typical motherboards.

replacing the SSD takes 30mins if you are going sloooooow. If you do it before you use the deck for the first time, you just have to install SteamOS anew from a USB stick or something, and you’re good to go, so 1 hour time spent tops.
A 512GB M.2 2230 SSD can be had for a tad over 50€, 1TB SSDs are down to 130€ right…

I am sorry, but the unreachable number one has to be Ridge Racer Full Scale.

My experiences are wildly different, though it may depend on where you live. There are some multi-story car parks where you can’t make the turns with a normal Volvo 850 wagon, you have to back up a bit each story and adjust. The height in that car park was under 2m, closer to 1,90m - this is true for a lot of them. So…

And you think that it is sensible for people who have no training on these vehicles to handle them in everyday traffic? Through dense city centres and small towns, and on byroads?

I think that Sony, having bought so many studios outright starting from their first playstation days (buying Psygnosis to absorb it later on) has not really a good standpoint in this.
In fact, they absorbed so many studios that from then on produced exclusives for their consoles - that they are only now after decades…

Ah, you’re moving vehicles around. Ok, in Europe we use specialized equipment for stuff like that. Like actual rental vehicles that have a towing platform, 7,5ton trucks.
The thing is: With a normal drivers license, you are limited to 3.5ton maximum vehicle weight plus 750kg trailer anyway, or 3.5ton in total (vehicle…

Just out of curiosity, what are you towing that weighs 4 tons?
Apart from that, a normal VW T6.1 bus has space for 9 people with room for some shopping, or less with room for luggage for a trip, and can legally tow 2.5 tons. And is lighter and smaller than most SUV, and drinks less fuel.
Btw, same thing is correct for…

My standards are quite high though. A lot of people seem to hate on Cyberpunk because it is hip to do so, never having played the game at all. Or expecting another Witcher game, which it is not - not from the perspective, from the fact that you can actually design your character yourself, from the whole underlying…

If it was a masterpiece, it would grip everybody from its first moment of play. For me, it fails to do so. Maybe I am spoilt by Elder Scrolls games, but Witcher3 felt somewhat... restricted. It places great emphasis on telling a story (or more: stories if you count the addons), it apparently does things right from…