I would imagine it’s due to Ultimate Team, more than anything else. When a single mode is generating almost a billion dollars a year, anything off of that is pretty much a subsidy that’s easy to justify. It’s because of the huge monetary success of Ultimate Team that we’ve been able to eventually start getting full…

Get well soon Mike! Praying for you and your family.

I’ll be buying it. (Never had an original Xbox, so all this stuff is/has been a treat for me)

Words can’t describe how jealous of you I am. I have to buy every single one of these damn games lol ($10 a pop isn’t bad at all, that being said).

Why won’t it? KOTOR on the X runs at 4K. They’re raising the resolutions for l the OG Xbox games through the emulator, as I understand it.

I don’t know how people/much of the press so quickly talked themselves into the fiction of a PS5 coming next holiday. People clearly are not paying attention to the state of the industry. As of now, the landscape has never made less sense to introduce a new generation of consoles. This news coming in the same week as…

That was last generation. Things have changed a lot. Just like we got a new version of NFL Blitz as a standalone digital game (as well as Def Jam Icon/SSX reboot at $60, outside the traditional sports realm). If you noticed, EA doesn’t produce anything remotely close to any of those on console today. There’s a reason…

Because it’s not a moneymaker. AAA gaming is very much in the same shackles that cinema is. They’re more comfortable spending 100+ million for the opportunity to make 200-300 million, than small investments, that at best, make a few million in profit. When you’re dealing with publicly traded companies, it’s about…

Titanfall 2/Overwatch/Battlefield 1 Multiplayer, Knights of the Old Republic (Original Xbox backwards compatibility), Witcher 3, Madden Ultimate Team, Sims 4, Cities Skylines.

Another masochist, eh? Hi there. (Cities Skylines, Kerbal Space Program, Astroneer, Sims 4, Stardew Valley, The Long Dark, etc for me. Goes without saying, big on the management simulators.)

This is a reductive perspective of GTA IV and V. “Scaling back” implies removing features. They’re different games with different points of emphasis. You made it sound like the more recent entries are just husks. But, in actuality, the points of emphasis in other areas of design added 3x the amount of content of San…

Contender for greatest comment of all time.

Rurouni Kenshin, Gundam Wing, Yu Yu Hakusho, Outlaw Star, Trigun.

It was always a 60 frames per second game, if I’m remembering correctly. Don’t know why the base consoles wouldn’t have 60 frames.

Makeout Tactics FTW!

Just human nature. People are infinitely more forgiving with people/brands/products they’ve had longer relationships with. People will accept horrible things from people they’ve known a long time, whereas someone you met a week ago who gets your name wrong you’re ready to cut off. Microsoft in particular has always…

Nintendo leads at taking gaming in new directions and more specifically, bringing people who would’ve never played video games before into the tent by redefining play (they’re hit or miss at this naturally, since that’s a nearly impossible aspiration). With the Wii for example, they got millions of middle aged and…

They have a connection (worship) to guns/the NRA. Even in cases without affiliation, there’s a clear understanding, which creates a desire to protect (even in a situation like Parkland, where it’s clearly indefensible/clearly about a 19 year old with a ton of red flags being able to easily legally purchase a combat…

I have to imagine this is a licensing thing (preventing mass production/general release, that is). Otherwise, it’s lunacy that this epic collaboration is limited to a crappy contest. While personally I’ve been annoyed at seeing the cheapening of the Air Jordan silhouettes by having them slapped on literally everything…

Like a lot of games this generation (Rainbow Six Siege, Ghost Recon Wildlands, etc), it’s a game that completely flew under the radar, despite selling extremely well. As gaming has expanded and become a series of services, it’s difficult to have enough mind share for everything. Most gamers have no idea there are 42…