There is nothing “bad” in itself about it. If you feel you’re getting a good deal out of it, why not. But a lot of people have various issues with it, or what it represent, or how it does business. It’s mostly similar to people refusing to shop at Walmart or Amazon over not wanting to support companies that don’t…

I’m still wearing my Pebble Time Steel to this day because there still isn’t an alternative that ticks all the boxes. There’s always either crappy battery life, a closed ecosystem with limited app selection, piss-poor readability in daylight, poor notification system, poor music playing controls.... sometimes it’s a…

I think it’s expected from companies to never talk their own product down, of course.

It is not Netflix for videogames. Microsoft Gamepass is actually a lot more like Netflix for videogames than Stadia is.

The reason why Netflix makes sense for movies is that Netflix is replacing what the video rental joint used to be.

Not arguing that a lot of people were successful in getting a PS5 by now, but I’m still curious about the number of units “sold” versus the number of active players on the platform.

The unspoken rule about advertising, is that, as an advertiser, you should always keep in mind that people are dumb, but NEVER EVER tell them that they are.

...and this is also why many people were not interested in jumping on the Stadia bandwagon in the first place. 

For sure, after some time, they eventually start making profits on hardware as price of components go down. But I was just pointing out that, at launch, despite what many people are saying, companies are not selling their hardware “at a loss”, unless you factor in marketing and R&D budgets. If you take the cost of…

The thing is, companies want YOU to believe their consoles are sold at a loss because it makes people think they’re getting more than their money’s worth. Truth is, in many countries, there are laws preventing a company to have a manufacturer suggested retail price that is lower than their manufacturing cost.

I’ll let you in on a little secret here: they don’t care about your loyalty. Because if you’re loyal, then that means you’ll stay and will continue to buy their stuff no matter what. Big companies don’t spend time and money trying to satisfy customers that aren’t going away anyway....

There’s just too damn much in the whole history of videogames I haven’t played yet. Most people don’t get this because I think it takes time for someone in life to realize that you don’t need to live in constant fomo. At some point, you ask yourself why you’re playing games, and in my case, I play for having fun,…

Looks ok. Notifications functions look solid, battery life seems ok, but app support is nil, and music control function only seems to work with certain apps, not all. So, again, another one that gets close, but would still feel like a downgrade to me as some functionalities would be worse than what my old Pebble can…

Seriously, I’m kind of dropping out of this whole new generation of gaming, at least for now. Anyway, can’t get a console in store or online that aren’t resold at ridiculous prices, but even if I had one... these game prices are just... ouch.... Not that I don’t have the money, but there comes a point where it just…

Digital is not the way of the future. It’s the way of the present. Because in the future, you might not be able to play what you paid for.

Still using my Pebble Time Steel. And it’s not because I’m not looking at alternatives. I just haven’t found something that would work as well for what I want it for. There’s no watch out there that checks all the boxes, even after all this time. Either it has a piss-poor battery life, not always on display, poor…

I’ve been toying with the idea of buying a record player for awhile now, so this may just push me over the edge into full-on hipsterdom.

Again, 100% agree. And I think the Vita actually had its own store app. It didn’t seem to me to be a web-based browser thing, if my memory serves me right (I had two Vitas back then, should have kept at least one of them (oh well!), but since Sony forgot it existed after about a year and a half, I figured I’d be…

I’m personally quite sick of seeing this too. Whenever someone uses that as an argument (like “meh... this is old...”) I always end up replying “...so?”

I know. This is like saying that old music, old movies, old books, don’t need to be experienced by younger people these days. Like, anything that’s older than what is trending right now is of absolute zero interest.

This only holds up if you see games as simple consumable products with zero artistic value to them.