Basically, people are mad about exclusives if they aren’t on the specific plastic box that they’ve dedicated their lives to.

It took this guy 20 years to figure out that a $200 billion megacorp doesn’t care about people. Truly amazing.

“We’ve been fighting this war for nothing.”

The only justifiable reason for taking a console/format war seriously is if your paycheck literally depends on it.

“I was wrong all of this time, Xbox doesn’t care about us, Microsoft doesn’t care about us. We’ve been fighting this war for nothing.”

A large majority of the most popular streamers are the ones that got in on a particular platform early.  Very few are unique or highly talented, and it’s extremely difficult to break through on a mature platform.

Lets see, not even 30 years old. Financially set for life. Probably tired of doing the same thing for a decade. Can basically move on and bigger and better things without having to worry about hustling

Let’s use a sports analogy: A highly visible member of your favorite sports team is retiring or moving to another team. That would be newsworthy right? Well Pokimane is a rather high profile and popular streamer, that among other things streams games. In the video game sphere, that probably counts as noteworthy.

I don’t use Twitch and have never seen a single second of a Pokimane stream. That said, I am very aware that she’s got a pretty significant following of millions of people, and other gaming outlets are reporting on this as well.

Sooooo, that’s probably why.

You’re not sure why a gaming website would report on the retirement of a high profile gaming streamer?

Because Pokemon is actually on some software's dictionaries. I use Gboard on my iPad and pixel, and most of the original Pokemon are added as proper nouns. 

Kind of makes Konami look bad for charging $60 for their extremely half-assed MGS collection. Of course, they already looked bad but this TR collection looks to rub salt in the wound.

BINGO!

This is great, IMO. I love old games and many of them I can overlook shortcomings due changes in controls and graphics, but the old Tomb Raider games feel so rough now. I’m glad you can revert it to the old style, but this is an old series that did not age well at all. Playing them now I’m shocked that I played…

I am actually glad that they have the option to play these games with the old controls and will turn it on ASAP.

part of that was due to the PS1 not having a z-buffer. a lot of the geometry and sprites are designed to deal with that limitation and it hurts the gameplay immensely.

Not only are they willing to put out poor quality art just to save a few pennies, but they won’t even take the ten minutes or so to review the results before posting them. Their stupidity would be hilarious if they weren’t the ones steering the ship.

Agreed. The use of AI here to stay.

I can’t wait for us to get past this whole point. It isn’t going anywhere and won’t be regulated away. I still remember how up in arms everyone one was about how digital art was going to ruin the entire industry. A decade or two from now & an article like this will seem even sillier than it currently does. Adapt or…