Most developers are already paid by the time a game goes gold, and they rarely getting anything more than a pittance for actual sales.

Eh, Nintendo has been more than willing to tell their shareholders to piss up a rope, which is why they’ve been (mostly) able to buck the trend. But they’re also a rare example of a company that’s been around so long that they have “fuck you” money. They can lose 20% of their value delaying Animal Crossing in a way a…

The counterpoint to that is games like Baldur’s Gate 3 come from a position of luxury that the overwhelming amount of studios don’t have, luxuries that developers don’t have because of shitty customer behaviors.

Nintendo has followed up successful consoles with successful consoles before (NES to SNES comes to mind, and the GBA that was followed up with DS line). So, it’s certainly possible.

Nintendo trolling shippers. It’s the gift that keeps on giving.

It was either 2 or 3 that Kojima’s idea for the final boss was a protracted sniper battle that went on for two weeks of real time.

I think it’s more that Konami stopped having the guts to tell him, “No.  Redo this.”  Dude has had some crazy ideas for a VERY long time.

I am on board with Mass Effect 3's ending being a good concept done poorly, especially in its original presentation.

Shockingly, Sony’s argument of “We got our exclusive titles the right way” was not particularly compelling.

Well, if Square doesn’t have to go to Nintendo for gold copies of those titles because Square couldn’t be arsed to hang onto them... maybe there’s hope?

Easily the most useless “feature” is the Map on the L-button radial menu.

Cigarette companies followed all FDA rules for nicotene content while having a cartoon camel targeting kids in their marketing.

It’s a “prank” that pirates sometimes do, splice in stuff not normally in the film.

Considering it seems like the Only Up! developer used stolen and recycled assets; live by the sword, die by the sword, I suppose.

This is same sort of “shock advertising” that has quite literally gone on for decades. It’s going to start the same fainting couch behavior of how this game is “promoting beastiality” or some shit, it’s going to get a whole bunch of heart rates going, and a lot of people are going to cash in on the “controversy.”

It’d…

I suppose the question I would ask is if Jill’s development is because SquareEnix can’t properly write, develop, and give agency to a woman, or if it’s more a matter of Square’s tendency to not give terribly much depth to anyone who isn’t the main protagonist or antagonist, or are both so bad that it really makes how…

When you think how long lived Zora are, it kinda makes sense that they would form romantic bonds with a LOT of people over their lives.

I just think Nintendo looks at their fandom and says, “Listen, stop bickering.  We think ALL of you are weird.”

Meanwhile, you got Nintendo over here shrugging, “We... we’ve had our asses hanging out since 1980.  Get on our level, scrubs.”

Right. If Nintendo was THAT interested in “reinforcing heteronormativity,” they had a gimme right there in Link and Zelda living in the same house with one bed.