His dad has tried a few things to my knowledge, but never drastic enough to actually help. Like, I get it that he thinks prison might keep his son out of trouble, but it’ll just keep Johnny high that whole time (but he still needs jail for abuse, cuz fuck that).

Was hoping to find this comment. Yeah, just use your phone.

Was hoping to find this comment. Yeah, just use your phone.

On that first point, it’s highly likely that Clinton is just going with the flow, and I imagine the intent is to pass it under Obama before she takes office. They’re both basically the same candidate (Obama and Clinton share almost every position), and he’s super pro-TPP. It’s the right move.

To that last point, most people don’t have their fingers on the D-Pad before using it. I think the intent is to Look -> Press.

Accessible doesn’t mean stupid or childish, which is basically what LoZ stories are. Kids’ stories these days have more depth.

Eh, this is basically saying “Freedom of speech protects bad speech!” You’re not wrong, but it’s the ultimate deflection in a discussion. Aonuma can design whatever he wants to, but if he’d like to win over more people, then he should read through consumer opinion and think about it.

But that’s not accessible, it’s boring. Zelda games have great gameplay, but they’ve always needed help in the story department. Why keep retelling the same boring story when you could mix it up?

People always say this, but the default is almost always a white guy. If gender or race doesn’t matter, then just leave it to chance. Flip a coin for gender (and even that assumes a binary, but whatever), and roll a die for race.

I would understand this reasoning if Link were actually a character, but the main reason that the name Link is used and the reason that Nintendo always gives for not voicing him is that he’s supposed to be a player avatar. But that’s still only true for the male players.

Those would be separate teams though. Cut the hardware, you cut the hardware budget. You still make a ton of money, potentially more since I have to assume a game like this would sell gangbusters on PS4/Xbox/PC.

Talk to the average console gamer. I assure you, most of them don’t want to build a PC at all. They want a box that takes a disc and plays immediately. Maybe an automatic update (but even those were annoying, and are now background updates).

I’d argue that people don’t really buy Nintendo products at all anymore.

Your final assumption is very incorrect. I actually just got my first gaming PC yesterday, and I’ve owned half a dozen consoles going back generations. I prefer console gaming.

Sure, which is why I said “for the most part.” But looking at the sales of 3rd party games (on a single system) and comparing that to exclusives, it seems like more people want CoD, Fallout, etc... instead of Halo or Uncharted.

I’m part of some online groups that do a few competitions every year, and it’ll be great for organizing those if we can set up Arena brackets and whatnot.

I assume cross-play is going to be invite-only; i.e. if my friend on PC invites me to a match, I accept knowing that he’s on PC. If I just jump in with randos, it’ll probably pull from console users only.

This has largely always been true of every console, every generation. For whatever reason, it’s insanely hard to change the narrative around your console. The PS3 still runs into the “PS3 has no games” meme online, and various other consoles have gotten weird props for what were, in hindsight, okay at best (looking at…

We don’t know about Sony yet, but at least the Scorpio has no exclusives. That should eliminate the problem you (and I) were worried about.

Nadella has honestly been great with his new gameplan. The whole company philosophy now is:

That’s likely exactly how it’ll work. Similar to a Blu-ray that gives you an Ultraviolet code.