Why would a car be moving while you load the trunks? I think that there is some misunderstanding on how self-driving vehicles work here.

Because nowadays, gaming is no longer a single-domain recreation. It is tied to all kinds of media, merchandises, and user created content (by streamers). People are starting to see a franchise as a multi-part experience, not a single product. The markets are becoming more and more complex and difficult to manage, but…

I think that it is Atlus that needs a reality check. The matter of fact is that reality does not work in the way ideals do. This is not a question of ethics, it is a question of pragmatism. Video game streaming has become a common aspect of the industry, and rather than embrace such a fact and take advantage of it,…

It probably did not cost hundreds of millions of dollars to produce. MGS V, for all its over-budget woes, was estimated to cost around $80million to develop.

I at least, bought a few games after watching streamers play them.

Live stream, I guess. Some streamers make good money through live streaming on platforms such as Twitch. Quite a few of them have die-hard fans who donate money ranging in the tens of thousands.

Does it even support SLI in the first place? I am reluctant to re-install this game due to the large install size and the potentially low framerate. People kept saying that things have improved, but then they admit to getting 40 to 50 fps on 1070, which is still rather disappointing for the latest high-end card.

I do own the PS (and the subsequent iterations). You are right regarding Sony’s success in third-party software. They have an ecosystem that is much more robust than Nintendo’s.

But why ruin your own mood over someone insignificant? Right? :)

Well, we do meet up out of formality, once or twice per year, just an hour or two each time, but otherwise, yeah, we almost keep no contact.

Nintendo has a distributor in Southeast Asia, and as you would have guessed, the distributor is looking for some significant profits.

Nah, he wasn’t bad to begin with, and people do change as they put on age.

Reminds me of the days when my family couldn’t afford a Sega Saturn. My not-so-kind Aunt gifted me one that no longer functions (her son broke it), and somehow, after giving it a few hard knocks, it started working again. My dad, being less concerned about us than he is about his siblings’ circle, told her about it.…

That’s still better than the Southeast Asian price. Over here, the Switch costs $660 bundled with Zelda and the 1-2-Switch (which nobody wants). A meal costs $4-$5 here, doesn’t take complex calculations to figure out that the Switch is beyond majority of the kids’ reach.

I do not believe so. Products and their life cycles, especially for tech products, simply do not last that long. Regardless of whether the games are coming or whether Vita’s sales are hanging on, a product would reach its planned life cycle end sooner or later. That is inevitable. We should remember that it is the…

I think that it would probably benefit the consumers to have a single dominant handheld that can play both Nintendo games and the traditional Vita-type games (such as Gundam, JRPGs, Digimon etc). That would be one fewer device to purchase.

The CoD series has almost not portrayed the war in China and Southeast Asia at all, mostly because they were disastrous for the Allied forces (The British got their ass whooped by the Japanese, and China was mostly helpless).

How about some Asian WWII for a change then?

In actual fact, the demand for those games is not exactly that great. That’s not to say that people couldn’t start loving JRPGs, it’s just that no single developer is willing to make continuous investments in order to grow the pie. As a result, we have a vicious cycle. 

At this point in time, the Vita is already close to 6 years old, right next to the end of its life cycle. It’s already in the sunset mode no matter what Sony claims. If there is no successor planned, then Nintendo might just take over the handheld market entirely.