My oldest daughter (5) has dabbled in a few games with me in the past, but this is the first game I bought specifically for her and I can’t wait to play it with her this weekend.

Ahh, the classic benevolent asshole defense. 

Yes, Nintendo made a huge mistake by not turning over ownership of all of their IPs (Mario, Zelda, etc) to Sony.  The Big N would be in much better shape if Sony controlled everything.  What a bunch of idiots.

On one hand, it makes sense.  On the other hand I feel like Microsoft might need to lay low for a little while after the ABK thing.

I’m just here to understand how Wordle, a game that literally never exceeds 45 seconds in length, is great for commutes.

He’s not gonna fuck you bro.

Thank you for sharing this.

I was sad, but then you said “live service” and “free to play” and I realized I wasn’t missing anything that would have remotely interested me.

SE anticipated selling 45 million copies of Foamstars

What, you think it bombed the Netherlands?  It didn’t need to say anything racist.  It just killed all the non-whites.

Gamers are just going to have to get used to being shat on.

Well played

Which company set more cash on fire in the last few years, Embracer buying and then destroying 1,000 video game companies, or whatever the fuck the Metaverse is?

But, if you buy 1000 suicide bucks you can get a virtual mustache to show off on your character.  Obviously the mustache is not available until after the patch is issued.  And obviously players that don’t also buy the mustache can’t see your mustache.  And also obviously the mustache only shows if you are the party…

The entire show will be a bunch of normal humans trying to teach him genuine emotion and actual empathy.  He will fail.

A week ago I was going to buy this game if the reviews looked good.  Well, even though most reviews look good, Ubisoft is just going to have to be ok with me not buying any of their games.

People already have range anxiety about electric cars. Now you can’t drive your car for more than 3.5 hours without recharging the controller.

You are correct that they generally keep software prices up, and for good reason, they continue to sell at those prices. The last time they really dropped software was back during the GCN and Wii era with the player’s choice lineup which dropped them down to $20 (with an ugly box as a tradeoff).

Kind of off topic, but how crazy is it that a console lasted seven years on the market without a single price drop?  The closest it ever got was bundling in Mario Kart or Smash Brothers.

All your points are good. I would also add that the last two years of inflation coming on the tail end of the pandemic certainly led people to curb spending on non-essentials.