Same story here minus the streaming, gosh.

Same.

I feel like you’ve basically summed up 90% of silicon valley in a nutshell right there.

Judging at this bit from the article going “ They didn’t immediately clarify how fast a user’s internet needs to be to get the best performance, a make or break element of Google’s plans. “ well...  

At this rate I get the feeling the closest we’ll get will be Switch’s Daemon X Machina.
Like the fact it already has what heavily seem like a Nine-Balls references(or literally red herring of it perhaps? But that red colored mecha from the demo definitely seemed like it couldn’t be a coincidence) has me definitely…

Ppersonally I think there is still room for base building in RTSes... but you are likely right that the *Starcraft* tradition of RTSes is dying with Starcraft surviving likely just on inertia alone. Company of Heroes did okay but I would say part of it’s success has been in it’s willingness to challenge of traditions…

Plus buying both as a single persons and setting them upgames for trading with each others would be really more troubles than it’s worth when two players progressing separately.... are able to progress separately.

Time’s really as much of a resource than money which is why the “money” argument is debatable beyond the…

At the same time, even online, it still encourage people to indeed still link up and coordinate/interact with friends/etc to trade which isn’t a bad move for a game that still intend to have degrees of multiplayer interaction and battling be it on or offline.

Others games would just ditch the trading mechanics and have…

I could recall wrong, but I recall seeing that some QA/moderators teams were actually hit because they weren’t actively involved in the direct *production* of games.... even if QA testing teams is probably one of the most essential things to ensure the quality of a game.

Seems to be at least partly the case: https://www…

I’m slightly lucky that in Quebec we have Microplay which remains a similar scaled dedicated gaming store brand... that also happen to be owned by one of the province’s largest ISP company so the presence of said stores is justified by the fact that they exists basically right next to the ISP’s own service stores…

I think ultimately Gamestop isn’t even suffering from online sales competitions anymore. But really... games are so mainstream these days they’re just sold *everywhere* as it were.
Best Buy general electronics stores, Walmart, etc

Even one of my province’s “dedicated” gaming store actually mostly exist as a side…

The sad thing is they’ll likely blame it on “Online sales killed the retail market!” again but you know... ontop of their shitty practices?

The retail market is, as far as I can tell, still very much alive.
The one thing that -may- be struggling is “dedicated” gaming stores however. When looking at it here there isn’t…

Depends. It’s only just starting out but being a game engine developpers Epic are well placed to get, in the long run, the kind of exclusives that may well at least give Steam pause.

Not necessarily replace Steam’s position as the dominant storefront but rather just become another possible alternative for players of…

Tbh I wonder how much we can expect Steam to keep its monopoly. Remains an absurdly strong presence for sure but now a ton of AAA publishers are able to set up their own storefront easily to literally cut out what(Steam, that is) ultimately is nothing more than a middle man for them and directly sell to their…

And the funny thing?

On that indie game front I’d be tempted to say that it’s now Nintendo of all people that’s starting to put a dent in them. Almost any indie games that makes it’s way to Switch ends up making more money than it’s Steam version... and generally in a portion of the time the Steam version did.

Like…

Maybe he *does* use the Piccolo method...

At least the silver lining is that frequently with all thing Dragon Quest... where Square often drops the ball, Nintendo picks it back up.

Nintendo DS remakes of IV, V, VI.
Nintendo 3DS of VII, VIII.
Switch port of Dragon Quest Builders.

Also most all of them published by *Nintendo* in the west rather than Square Enix if…

You have no ideas how much I’m hoping for something of the likes of a major completely Dragon Quest themed Nintendo Direct basically going “Oh hey nintendo jRPG fans have we got some major 2019 news for you: First of all, Dragon Quest Builders 2, the sequel to that small spin-off game you’ve been playing since early…

The cult of Waluigi and Knuckle shall return supreme and its head priestess Isabelle is the one who will break the seal and free their full form to bring about the ends times.

Considering the borderline eldritch ritual way to reproduce this bug my new fan head cannon is now this: