And they might do just that, all I can do is take them at their word. But there’s absolutely nothing about the delivery model of these games (or Apple arcade games) that would prevent those games from having additional revenue generating opportunities. The quote makes it sound like, “We’re already charging you for…

A 130 year old heritage oak tree in Austin, TX:

We don’t have to think about ads, we don’t have to think about in-game purchases, or other monetization

Same thing that’s in it for the streamer: something different. There are a lot of games I love, and I watch a lot of twitch, but I don’t generally watch casual playthroughs of games I love, it’s just not that interesting to me. I watch a lot of speedruns because it’s easy to cheer for someone to succeed against easily…

Yes, it is licensing, and of course they need publishers permission to continue selling the games on the Xbox store, what are you smoking? Do you really not know how backwards compatibility actually works?

There’s a real air of intentionally misunderstanding how any of this stuff works in those numbers. With emulation it’s never going to be as simple as just plugging a disc into a new machine and expecting it to work. MS has made an absolutely herculean effort to not only preserve but upgrade a significant portion of…

The controllers don’t appear to be detachable like the Joy-Cons, but maybe that means they won’t have any drift either.

The guy in the video did say something like a business card would work.

Guilt, Chrissy, it’s guilt. You’re feeling guilt. You aren’t in some fucking “cancel club”, you did some really reprehensible bullshit, got called on it, and feel bad about what you’ve done.

I assume this means you can access GamePass on it as well through xCloud at xbox.com/play in a browser?

Ok, fair enough. You can invest in video games, it’s just wildly stupid and irresponsible to do.

That’s exactly the correct response.  My rep is currently in DC (Erin Zwiener, and boy does she have a sense of humor about her name based on her campaign ads.  “Erin Zwiener will STAND UP for Texans!”) and I’ve had to tell multiple people that she’s doing exactly what I elected her to do.

The intent isn’t to get the US Senate to do this, the intent is to get national Dems to spend their fucking political capital to restore the god damn voting rights act that would have made these actions entirely unnecessary.

God, I wish I had the confidence of this headline that someone saying some truly dumb shit would face consequences.

Don’t bother, just sell them sealed. Like you said, grading is expensive and there’s a chance they come back at some stupid arbitrary grading that’ll net you less than just selling it as is.

No, it’s $600 because someone’s making a speculative investment, they aren’t buying it on the merits of its own value.  It’s absolutely not worth $600.  You could trawl ebay and buy every sealed first print copy available for the next year, spend less than $600, and get a copy that’ll probably grade higher.

Videogames are not an investment.

As a collector this one concerns me way more than the $1.5 million Mario 64. A pristine copy of one of the most iconic games released 25 years ago has some intrinsic value and has to be pretty rare. I don’t buy their “One of 5 copies in this condition” claim, and I don’t buy that $1.5mil was a legit sale.

How did you read this:

Oh for sure, but I’m a nerd on the internet and have a hard time resisting a good “well ackshully” moment.