“While recognising the need to retain top executives”

This isn’t a need. It’s the biggest lie in the corporate universe, in fact.

The difference between a “top executive” and “other executives” is literally a lottery pull. The vast majority of them are staggeringly incompetent or ineffectual people that just ride…

Nobody wants to announce a price in the middle of the worst unemployment rate and related recession we’ve seen in decades.  Sony nor Microsoft.  They will ABSOLUTELY wait until the last possible moment to reveal that.

Plenty. But they aren’t *celebrity* games writers.

This is not punching China in the nose. China *does not fucking care* about this.

Trump has no fucking idea how to punch China in the nose. Trump sings wildly and ends up punching himself in the face every singly time (see his understanding of how tariffs work).

Donald Trump knows precisely jack all about how the global…

Oh I get backing it when the kickstarter first came out. But there are people right now. Today. Still throwing money at it. People who have thrown thousands upon thousands of dollars at it over the better part of a decade at regular intervals.

I just cannot fathom that.

Thank you for this explanation.  I will now buy another spaceship jpeg.

I like E3 more in concept than execution.

Having a major, centralized event can be really good for an industry in terms of consumer/fan engagement. E3, if nothing else, was always good for making sure that if a company had something to announce, they were going to do it there, and if they didn’t, you could be…

Oh I agree. It’s very cult-like.

Total shot in the dark but I think Turbulent is going to end up with control of the project once the investors have had enough.

The investors only own about 10 percent of the company (a defense I’ve heard before) but it doesn’t actually matter: if the loss of investor money would sink…

At this point if you are still throwing money at CIG you deserve to be scammed, honestly. This project has been *transparently* sketchy for years now, badly managed from the jump and never showed any signs of cohesion at any point.

Some well-placed marketing buzzwords is all it took for some people, and STILL all it…

These are really good points that had escaped my memory. I recall occasional pushes from the base several years ago to try and pressure Nintendo to *make new “old” hardware* to make sure they didn’t run out. It was ludicrous.

I think you’re spot-on with the analysis of the community surrounding it. I remember watching…

“Who’s the one being hyperbolic to make a point here?”

Just elevating to the level presented.

“Then... don’t fight it?” Welcome to the internet? Would you like a guided tour? I suggest we start over at google and sort of wind our way around to reddit, although we may want to skip that particular stop. Your call.

“Oooohhh,…

I think it’s a little beyond the pale to talk about *Paper Mario* games as “era-defining*, are you being hyperbolic to make a point? That’s not showing up on anyone’s list that has played anything outside of....Paper Mario.

I don’t have a dog in that fight, I’ve played maybe two paper Mario games and neither one was…

It isn’t that Smash is the *worst*, it is, in my opinion, that Smash is the *loudest*.

What I mean by that is that the Smash competitive community has a strange sort of Performative Outrage vibe to it honed over years of feeling like they aren’t respected by the Fight Game Community at large, and the fact that their…

I disagree with this angle because from a brass tax, economic perspective, Smash games sells to casuals FAR MORE than to people invested in the competitive SMASH scene, who represent a tiny fraction of the fanbase for those games. The vast majority of people buying Smash are using the product as Nintendo intended: a…

Bingo.  This is EXACTLY why Nintendo never touched this, because they knew what the end-game was.  Nintendo may come off as weirdly clueless sometimes, but when it comes to protecting their company image?  Literally no one in the business is smarter.  No one.

The culture that surrounds the FGC, and Smash in particular, is why I’ve always believed the reason Nintendo has kept its distance and never really sanctioned it as an eSport is because of the shitshow they absolutely KNOW it would devolve into eventually.

Leaving aside that Nintendo, as a company, generally isn’t up…

“I think it started when Sega was whipping them with Genesis”

This was never really the case. Genesis won a few quarters here and there but at the the end of the day Nintendo ended up on top of the sales heap once SNES hit.(49 million units vs. Genesis’ 26 million) in the 16-bit era.

But I agree with most of your…

Dragon Quest Builders 2 on Switch, a game I started and got about halfway through last Fall, and then ended up moving and starting a new job and then COVID and just never picked back up.

I started over last week and I’ve gotten into it in a way I didn’t the first time. I think because the town-building aspect of Animal…

This battle systems makes me think of smartphone puzzle games.

You have a certain amount of a resource! (HP in this case)

If you don’t solve the puzzle exactly, some of that resource goes away! Mess up enough times and you run out! Pay us for more! (obviously that last part doesn’t line-up with this)

It’s the…

I mean, to be fair, Star Fox Zero was a bad game centered around a bad gimmick on a system that woefully undersold.