Upfront sales mean a lot to AAA publishers because large corporations can’t stand to see a quarter go by without growth or their shareholders get antsy.

Indies of course aren’t the same but it depends on the situation.  If you’re barely hanging on, getting the money sooner rather than later can mean the difference…

Holy shit check out the Google White Knight over here.

Jesus tap-dancing CHRIST humanity was a mistake.

Serious question, Ethan...do you just not know how Lithium-Ion batteries work? This is not unique to Nintendo. Li-on batteries have a lifespan of about 400 full-charge cycles on average, or basically 3ish years, maybe 4.

This has always been true of Li-on batteries.  The fact that it lasts more than a day on a charge…

You need to seek a therapist if you haven’t already.

The “reason” is because hedge funds and billionaires started losing money.

End of statement.

“so there is probably a balance to be struck.”

This has never happened in the history of the corporate world. It will 100 percent veer way too far in the wrong direction and end up killing the industry entirely.

Once a corporation decides “Where’s MY cut???” they will bury the very thing they want to regulate or get cut…

I mean who fucking cares which one they decided to go with?

Who looks at the time and effort something like this requires and the first thing out of them is “psss, why even waste your TIME if it’s not even the RIGHT UNIT???”

Jesus fucking christ.  Imagine being that kind of person.

....please tell me you aren’t being serious.

Jezebel is consistently bad at politics. Everything is surface level, there is no depth to any of it, and the analysis is often completely wrong.  They’re about clicks just like everyone else, so this sort of vapid, off-the-cuff stuff reigns supreme.

What does the right of expression without the government censoring you have to do with a private company choosing to de-platform someone?

Why do concern-trolling conservatives never seem to actually know what the 1st Amendment is?

Kotaku continuing to stan for the Smash Melee community continues to be extremely gross.

“can geoff johns’ ass just go? just go somewhere else. just go away.”

Johns definitely deserves flack here, but Patty Jenkins doesn’t get to get off scot free either. So has a co-”Story By” credit, a co-writing credit AND she directed the film.

“The “mediocre” game that hovers around a 90% critical rating”

Almost no game backed by a major publisher ever drops much below that.

It means nothing.

It’s very telling to me that half the comments are on some bizarre tangent about you not calling yourself a “gamer” vs. what your actual comment is about.

Bingo. This is something Ethan can’t really grasp because he isn’t old enough.

I cannot stress enough how NOT worth defending the extremely toxic Smash Melee “community” is.

The vast, vast majority of Nintendo’s fans don’t even know any of this exists.

You are VASTLY over-estimating the size of the Smash community.  Particularly the Smash Melee community.  A community that is, I cannot stress this enough, *not worthy of defending based on past actions*.

I genuinely feel bad for you, my dude. I know what it’s like to feel like you aren’t connecting with something that seemingly everyone else is.