Ramsey gives people who claim to be professionals hell.  Anyone else, he is the model of constructive feedback and support.

As I no longer have any desire to pay someone a $15 monthly fee for the right to play their game, I’m good not participating in either, especially when they ALSO charge a cover price for their latest content expansion.

You have a very peculiar idea of “fair.”  It sounds like you define it as, “I want to feel better about myself at other people’s expense.”

It’s... possible, but at the same time, money launderers don’t particularly like making bids that will draw attention to themselves. I’m not inclined to believe it’s a launderer in this particular case.

I have generally found groups and agencies that behave like this are aware of what technology can do in a general sense, but are nigh catastrophically ignorant of the lengths said technology can go to get what it wants anyway.

Well, part of that is that you kinda have to have more chatty characters if you’re writing prose. A main character in a book that doesn’t talk very much would be really hard to get readers to get a feel for.

By knowing the voice of the video game character (he was a fan of the Witcher series before taking on Geralt’s role in the show), and accidentally defaulting to it during a scene because you’re a method actor like that.

Every so often, I’m reminded why I don’t go to any of those forums anymore.

Do I even want to know?

Oh, that’s exactly it. I think we had a lot of journalists gathering up all rumors and sources, and assuming they were all referring to the same thing, when there was no real reason to make that assumption.  You’d think journalists who follow Nintendo even for six months would know that they’re working on about 200…

The data suggests the opposite. The overwhelming majority of players use the Switch in handheld mode to some degree (it’s something like 5% who use it docked as a home console exclusively).

I think it was always intended as a next gen thing. It’s like people have forgotten how poorly Nintendo’s mid-cycle power boosts have tended to go. Hell, the New 3DS was received so poorly that I expected that they wouldn’t want to dip into that well any time in the near future.

I suspect in the case of the reporting, journalists made the dangerous assumption that everything coming from their sources was referring to the same thing.

1) I thoroughly suspect that as the old models sell through, they won’t make any more of them.

My guess is that they have a bunch of OLED screens that they were slating to use with their next gen hardware, but since they're waiting for all the other parts, why not use it?

For what it’s worth... game developers and studios know damn well things like DRM and other sort of legitimate copy requirements are dumb and don’t work. And it’s partly for reasons like this why they know it doesn’t.

I sincerely doubt it. Hell, one of the reasons I was rather bear-ish on the idea of a drastic performance boost mid-gen was because I couldn’t imagine Nintendo would even want to potentially revisit the New 3DS debacle.

At the end of the day, I don’t doubt the reporting that said Nintendo was sourcing all sorts of higher powered components and asking developers about 4K and DLSS. I’m sure Nintendo was.

I’m guessing that they’re most likely nearing the end of the supply for the older model, and that by the time the OLED version drops, there’s probably not going to be too many standard ones on the shelves to price drop.

Apparently, the monthy sub for ROMUniverse was $30, according to PCMag. I’m sorry, but if you have THAT sort of scratch to throw out on Switch ROMs on a monthly basis, you have enough scratch to buy them legitimately.