So here’s a question... If I buy artwork from an artist... Am I not allowed to display that art? To take pictures of the room with the art in question without the artist’s permission? If I am, then why should tattoos be any different? ... The alternative is that this dude cannot take any photographs of himself without…

Has it been confirmed that there will be “Series S versions” of games? I think I’ve heard something like that, but it can also be a bit of a headache... If you’re storing games on those external SSDs, it means you can’t simply bring your games over to your friend’s/parent’s Series X and play them, or vice versa.

Call me when they bring back Transmetals.

I got all eight coins on my first try. For a moment I thought to myself maybe this isn’t as terrible as I remember. Then I fell in the hole when trying to grab the Shine. Eight deaths later, I changed my mind.

When you do the math, it’s not that Microsoft doesn’t have first parties. It’s that their first parties don’t make must-haves and award winners. Even before all of Microsoft’s recent acquisitions, they had 10 first party studios in 2016 compared to Sony’s 12, yet Sony still delivered twice as many 90+ and almost three…

If you can’t beat ‘em, buy ‘em!

Yes, PCEI 4.0 drives are more expensive. But a 1TB drive can be had for as low as $160, almost 30% less.

I’m pretty sure “other suppliers” here meant other than Best Buy, not Seagate.

Bumble Bee, Honey Bee, whatever it takes.

Or perhaps this kindof shows the broken aspects of capitalism and copyright law. Time was, copyright was meant to protect an individual’s genius. Today, copyright is meant to protect a company’s bottom line.

In most other industries, day-one purchasers are Early Access users, they just don’t know it yet.

On the other hand, satire is pretty much by definition “damage to the brand,” yet it’s still legal.

I don’t really think this kind of thing is good for anybody, nobody should be scooping up like this. But let’s not pretend that these two companies are even remotely in the same league. Microsoft is the second largest company in the world by Market Cap. Sony is 128th. That’s a huge difference. So, this kind of thing is…

Hmm, considering that Obsidian makes a lot of games that are based on Bethesda properties, would this mean that Microsoft literally bought their competitor? (something businesses aren’t supposed to do)

Or more likely, we’ll look back on this as a time when unchecked corporate greed ran rampant and nobody seemed to care.

Sony has a history of buying studios that they already had a very cozy relationship with... To the point that most of the time people go “they weren’t already a part of Sony?”

Mojang operates under a certain specific umbrella of Microsoft, along with the other former indies. It’s largely a hands-off situation (though Microsoft still needs to approve every project). So if Mojang says they want to be multi-plat, they get to be.

Most of this is accurate, but Santa Monica was founded by Sony and has always been a Sony studio.

Just to put that amount in perspective as it pertains to Microsoft’s cash reserves: This would be somewhere in the neighborhood of you buying your local Wal-Mart for around $200.

What “big studios” did Sony scoop up? If I’m not mistaken, Microsoft went on a buying spree. In response, Sony buoyed a few of its smaller third parties. Now this. Microsoft is such a huge company it will always win in a buying war... Which will make it an even bigger company, allowing it to buy more companies...…