I suspect this is more of his attempts to look ‘tough’ on China. The problem being, the moron doesn’t understand that China outright owns roughly half the US economy. You can’t be ‘tough’ on someone who owns half your body. The only thing you accomplish is punishing yourself.

They did, the difference being that when they launched the PS3 in 2006 they still owned the merchandising rights to Spidey. At that point Raimi’s Spider-Man films were as big as comic book movies got, so it made sense to leverage their popularity. They sold those rights back to Marvel in 2011 for a quick injection of…

I don’t see any reason to view this through a console war lens.  All the players in this industry should be roundly excoriated for anti-consumer behavior like purchased exclusivity.  It amounts to a legal bribe to hamstring your competitors rather than competing with them by offering a better service.  

A. One doesn’t exclude the other.

Those can both be problems.

Both things suck

when blockbusters like The Last of Us Part II can take upward of six years to get out the door

Counterpoint: Having things to look forward to gives people hope, even when those things are just some cool video games. This complete dearth of “hype” is really a dearth of news that could very easily indicate a dearth of actual games. There’s no real silver lining here that I can see.

For not being racist, ICE sure isn’t illegally holding very many fully legal citizens who are white.

Imagine creating an organization that celebrates conspicuous consumption and unearned wealth and then having either the extreme self-awareness, or the extreme lack thereof, to call your organization One Percent.

Someone get him and Yoko Taro to do a game together.

You know that it is perfectly fine to breathe through a mask and it will help people not die.

In any cast, the Curse of the Moon spin-off games are made by a different developer.

Well now I HAVE to play this... Also I’m glad you can play it without having panic attacks or similar.

I sure as hell hope nobody is doing crunch during this crisis and that’s why games are being delayed. The last thing anybody needs right now is to compromise their immune system with stress and lack of sleep.  The game can fucking wait.

In America, celebrities are treated as experts on all topics. Thats why we have a celebrity as president of the country. Its fucking stupid.

Mario was a carpenter.

They called it "essential retail" bud. Them buckling under pressure isn't a " good on them" scenario, they behaved ghoulishly.

Good for them? They had a whole week to catch up and adamantly refused and with their bullshit essential retail line.