I guess I’m confused since if you have PS5/4 or Xbox One/Series, if you buy a game digitally or physically it installs to the console itself anyway. Having a smaller drive is inconsequential to the physical/digital argument since its going to be filled either way. Additionally, most AAA titles have massive day one…

Yeah, that “not passing the savings onto players” bit is a big one, IMO. In the earlier 2000s when the concept of buying video game through a game console was new and being floated out there as something that was coming (mainly because hard drives were starting to how up in consoles) I thought it sounded like a nice…

What this REALLY is about is the ethics in home invasion and assault.

I’ll wait until it goes under $100 like the Playstation TV

I’ve been enjoying replaying it in 3rd person on my iPhone. Plays pretty well when you use a backbone controller. I set mine to be capped at 30fps. I’ve even used the Twitch app to stream it to friends. 

Ha, yep. An entire generation grew up knowing the name William S. Sessions because of that bumper haha

Update: after watching the video- It makes more sense. The heading should be more clear. They have a one-of-a-kind Narc arcade board where the original programmer, in the last 10 years or so, went in and fixed a bug that allowed for a previously removed bonus stage to be accessible again. So, standard NARC is not…

A secretary to write something like that? In 2023?

The PS1 era is up there with the NES for me as far as experimentation and new experiences. The crazy thing is, in Japan there were a ton of other crazier, riskier games that never came out in the west.

Well, to be fair- when you buy it it’s for phone, iPad, and Mac. They aren’t limiting it to one device. You can play it on any of the devices, with a console controller and on a larger screen if you want with any of them.

Yeah. “HTML data”.... I mean, most modern sites have the HTML just be the general structure of a page- there’s no db data or even styles. If anyone is going to steal anything, that’s the least of your worries. I guess if they somehow captured the source of front-end rendered web pages that displayed internal data,…

Some people still think that happened. 

offer a red ring of death card and we’ll talk. 

You’re looking at this by consumer classifications. The Switch is Nintendo’s only console right now. The Nomad was an experiment that didn’t last long and Sega had other hardware. (not dissing the Nomad, I own one). So its not the same situation. 

Free games are what they do when they don’t want to decrease the price of hardware. The value is only there to the consumer but to Nintendo its something they already have developed.

That’s not really the case until you get to the Wii U. All they ever did there was drop the “Deluxe” price down to match the regular version’s price. That was the first console that they didn’t ever get real price reductions.

Oh yeah- from a business perspective they haven’t needed to... which probably says more about the mindset of consumers now vs. 20 years ago.

I miss when consoles had stair step discounts through its life. That said, if Nintendo pulls it off and the Switch becomes the highest selling console of all time, it’ll be with a console that kept the same price for its entire life (or, for most if it- if they do a discount next year), which is quite a feat. The…

True- but it’s difficult to compare to Wii. Wii had awful software attachment rates and the Switch excels at that.

Yes, but none of those systems had as much gas in the tank that the Switch still has. Nintendo announces earlier when they know their holiday sales are going to suck. That could be to encourage kiddos to not ask for a competitors system as a gift and to wait for a new Nintendo console