We always have to take these “we’re losing money with every sale” with a HUGE grain of salt. Many countries have laws that prevent companies from selling products at an unreasonable rate below cost. (Usually antitrust laws)

Yes, it was. Everyone I know who played it back then knew about this. Same with the infamous Konami code in Contra too. Everyone knew those. Apparently, some didn’t, but from my experience, most that were around back then did.

I swear to god this one of the most surprisingly accurate metaphor I’ve read about good old American capitalism and the “American dream”.

Which goes exactly in line with what I was saying. They used to make good gear in the past. But their build quality tanked quite dramatically over the last 5-7 years or so. What frustrates me the most is that on top of that, all those expensive premium or gaming mice they do aren’t easily repairable. Most of the time,…

Controller attachments are nice but not everyone like them. It feels to me the same as using a freaking dongle for plugging headphones. It feels backwards. I much prefer something that has built-in controls. Like, sure, attachments DO work, but I much prefer a device that has this built-in already.

But even so, this…

Logitech makes pretty solid hardware

And that’s the thing. Microsoft see the Xbox consoles simply as a mean to access their ecosystem. They want people to invest in the platform, and they figured that giving access to more people through consoles, PC, streaming, etc, is where the money actually is because you’re expanding the pool of potential customers.…

I have a coworker who has almost no immune system anymore, PLUS having a condition that makes those vaccines almost ineffective for her. So yeah, a shitty situation. Also, my boss caught COVID about 2 months ago and she was unable to get up from bed for about a week, and barely able to function the following one. And…

In my corner of the world, right after the last remaining safety measures were dropped, everything went up again to a level similar to what we had in the first and second waves (and that’s still the case more or less right now). Number of hospital admissions are constantly high (with of course some variations on the…

It’s not 1994 anymore, but that doesn’t mean modern ways are inherently better. Things change, are they don’t always change for the better.

The thing is, in the old days, a show needed to be successful in its time slot compared to the competition. The more successful it was, the more the channel could ask for advertising spots during that show. It was a relatively simple affair. Be better than whatever else is out there on the other channels at that time.…

Well, that’s kind of expected from any premium flagship type of product. I mean, to be fair, you should be comparing the Apple TV to the best premium Google/Android TV box out there, which would be something like the Nvidia Shield. I have two of them, and they’re also running buttery smooth, always have since day one…

Canada is known to be a shit-hole, internet-wise. Not that we don’t have good internet. It’s just insanely more expensive here than anywhere else on the planet for the same thing. To give you an idea, the big players (those who offer a good enough connection) for that same gigabit connection you have at 35$, are…

The problem is that people think it’s only about your ISP bandwidth, and don’t care about latency and ping and many other factors. Also, my family is comprised of four people that could fire up a stream on a tablet/TV at any time, so you never truly know what bandwidth you really have available at any one time, and…

Maybe Netflix should just stop implementing shit that nobody asked for, produce more what people are actually asking for.

To be technical, the Magnavox Odyssey “cartridges” only contained switches (and not program code) used to alter how the main board was working. So technically, they were not “real” cartridges, as they didn’t contain anything that wasn’t already present in the console itself.

But yes, the Fairchild Channel F was the…

The big majority of good mobile games (there are some out there) are those you can literally buy with a one-time payment and that’s it. You can get the full XCOM2 game with all DLC for about 20$ which is a steal. Same thing with Alien Isolation. Dead Cells is another one too. Sure, they’re not super recent games, but…

You know, I could’ve said the same thing. I still like gaming in general, of course, but games are, more and more, feeling to me like engineered products rather than something made from a passionate team of people. Sure, some of that joy and passion still shines through some big new games sometimes, but I find myself…

Agreed.
Gaming has become like most other medias now. Same as movies, music, books, etc... in the sense that what’s popular and all over the place is usually pandering to the lowest common denominator. To actually get something good (or not derivative) these days, you have to veer off into the sideway tracks, away from…

I like your Star Wars analogy, but I’ll add a point of divergence to it. I think a follow up to something that wasn’t done since many years is kind of allowed to bank on nostalgia at first. Like, The Force Awakens was a bit too close to the original movie on many levels, but I think it was ok, as, like I said, it…