You seem to have focused solely on the Namco thing and completely missed the important part in the end of their comment:

“Fortnite isn’t stealing Among Us using elements from Mafia, they’re stealing exact mechanics developed from Among Us. That’s the problem. Not all 2D mascot platformers have stolen from Mario, but a…

Or big enough to do it without repercussion. They apparently didn’t just rip-off Among Us’ specific twist on the Mafia/Werewolf formula... they were apparently uncreative enough to even copy the map layout from the base Among Us map.

Okay, sure it’s game mechanics. Even the fact they have literally taken the VERY twist Among Us was introducing to the formula(being able to complete assignements that are their own minigame thing iirc, ontop of the game being real time rather than a turn-based “point finger at Werewolf/Peasant” that ends when one…

Honestly I got (and I think those were inspirations?) Zelda and Secret of Mana/Evermore vibes from it myself, particularly in previous trailers showing a bit of gameplay.

Still love how upbeat the music was in the original announcement trailer last year <.<

Honestly I feel the same about Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon. Though tbh I’m more looking forward to getting Eastward next month. I’ve been hyped for that thing since it’s first reveal last year.

I still watch the original announcement trailer sometimes because the music in it feels so upbeat <.<

Pretty tempted by Axiom Verge but just got the physical trilogy collection of Blaster Master so my Metroidvania front is plenty filled already thus I’ll likely look forward to next month and Eastward myself.

It’s very much my personally most anticipated indie game of Since When It Got Announced Years Ago.

Still is, tbh. I love the visual they managed with that pixel art. I don’t know if it’s due to palette, a soft blur(?) effect they’re using over those pixels(unlike the more common hard-edged flat pixels) or just skilled…

Mostly likely to make it easier to maintain your battery without too much cable hassles(since the cable would be most likely tiddily connected to the sedentary dock rather than having separate HDMI *and* power cord both connecting directly into the console).

In other words, “keeping things tidy in a living room setup”…

Probably the people who expected this to be the “Switch Pro” they never got because they kept hyping under the idea that a “Switch Pro that would be capable of 4K or 60FPS with modern games” was just around the corner and when it didn’t manifest and they instead got the announcement for the Switch OLED they ALL…

To be honest the problem is not neccessarily releasing the SNES ports but the simple of fact that localizing all the text(and doing so in an acceptable format, especially with the difference in the amount of characters required to spell an entire sentence in Kanji versus doing so in the roman alphabet considering a…

I’m really curious. Valve might be big on the PC market but.... ultimately that’s a market they were able to dominate because they’re not the ones making the hardware.

So unlike actual console makes, they never had to negotiate(as much, anyway) with the likes of component supplies and productions, efficient worldwide…

*nods*
And the ironic thing is the Series S still seem to sell much more badly than the Series X just on the basis of being Digital-Only(then again, I don’t see the retailers who often are the ones selling these actual consoles going out of their way to advertise a console whose whole selling point is NOT coming back…

Would the text display/UI works well on that size of screen though? Or is that adjustable enough that it could be easily adapted to be readable enough even in handheld format?

Honestly I think that, short of massive shifts, the biggest hurdle with “Handheld PCs” is that the games themselves are still kinda formatted…

Possibly, but even then this could limit mainstream access(even if it could still achieve SOLID niche success, the kind that could still hurt markets like that of “Gaming Laptops” a lot when establishing itself).

“Can connect to a TV” is one thing but “Can connect to a TV, in a very seamless and smooth process that…

Honestly I wonder if the people thinking this is destined for massive success could be wrong about the intended target(a lot of these people think this is meant to dethrone the Switch) and what the margin of success could be like.

Like some of these people seem to think it will steal tens of millions of players from…

Honestly, considering some of the components(I could be wrong, but I think it’s the case with the processor?) are used in the likes of PS5/Xbox, industry players with an already sizeable presence in the logistics supply chain, and even those two are struggling with supplies....

... I can’t help but wonder/worry what…

This said... I’m seeing so many people talk of using this as an emulation box that I’m actually starting to worry with how the likes of Nintendo’s lawyers divisions have been heavily trigger happy over emulations as of late.

I think it can and might do well but one thing I noted was game Newell saying he expected/hoped “millions” of sales. What I can’t help but wonder if what word was not used which is “tens” of millions of sales.

Maybe I’m seeing too much into this, but I feel it’ll be good if it attains 5-12 millions units sold.

But then…

You kind of answered one of the other hurdle of the Steam Deck though.

“Most of the world - an enormous majority - does not, in fact, have the disposable income to use on a dedicated gaming console of any kind, portable or not.”

Especially when it’s initial availability again will be “only in a few given countries” to…

The thing is will be “will enough be actually online enough to even know the Steam Deck exists?” might be the biggest hurdle. Come what may, people know of Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft because they can read about them in paper newspaper, see them in TV ads... even see the actual consoles at Walmart and so many other retail…