If you don’t take it too personally, Bazzd comment basically hits the nail on the head. The price freeze at $60 not only made the industry more and more approachable every year it set the tone for everything. Every year that price freeze against inflation meant that gaming became more and more enticing and viable…

Basically, Zelnick believes that gamers are just buying fewer games and focusing on getting a couple of big, expensive $70 blockbuster titles or are willing to pick up older or smaller games that cost less.

If you read the article, especially the second to last paragraph you will note that even Take-Two highlighted that we are exercising self control. 

I’ve definitely been rewarded in games for being morally grey, its just not a shiny bing here is your good/evil achievement. Usually being morally grey means I didn’t align with one side or the other as presented in the game, so I made some “good” choices and made some “justifications”. The rewards, like the moral…

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Just for some clarity, MS studios have put out almost as many games this gen as PS studios. So its absolutely asanine when you say they don’t give a damn. It’s fine that you’re not a fan of the games they make, maybe you have a very particular taste in games and Sony hits that spot, that’s great. But for those of us…

Yeah except that we’ve played D4 and its pretty rock solid.

I’ve had very minor waits. Nothing longer than five minutes in the previous BETA and then during Server Slam there were no waiting periods for me.

I’m 100% with you, which is why I initially thought they were just gonna get the mobile version. I’m just letting you know what I recall Phil saying. I will have to actually relisten to that podcast at some point. I’ll try to remember to come back here to confirm or correct my own recollection.

All that means is that regulators are easily confused by Nvidia being a billion dollar player in the gaming space. So they’re conferring upon them clout in issues they are actually a minority stake in.

I obviously can’t speak to every issue, but I will say that at a time when performance on games was getting really good this game failed me. My 1650 Super was managing 45 fps in Gaurdians of the Galaxy at 1440p, 60 fps at 1440p for both Gears 5 and Forza Horizon 4, a host of other games running so much better than I…

I disagree entirely. There are already many services that offer that kind of subscription. Doing it that way puts them in line to compete directly with two of the biggest library holders and licencers on the market. That is a really unique angle in the market where Nvidia leverage their disctinct strengths while not…

I wouldn’t say Nvidia treat it like an after thought. They just have a responsibly conservative investment in it because they don’t have the same kind of money bags that MS have. Technically what they are doing in the cloud is actually more impressive than anyone else.

Actually IIRC it was in the Decoder podcast interview for Verge that Phil said that the CoD deal for Switch and Playstation was day one locally installed feature parity version of the games. He definitely said that for Playstation, I’m fairly certain Nintendo was included in that. Because I remember thinking up till…

I wouldn’t say other religions are more shady than Scientology. They’re just younger and have a smaller footprint. The shadiness tracks to scale.

Thanks. Appreciate that clarification.

Nah. Being immersed in the sandbox of other people’s lives was its own unique experience. Had it been a visual novel it would not have had all the same nuance. Playing the game blind for the first time, wondering if there was a horror element to it, experiencing the creeks of the house, the unique placement of objects…

My take away was that he stepped away from everyone else, taking the Fullbright name with him (possibly they didn’t want the name). Everyone else continued on developing the game, presumably the game is funded by Annapurna if they’re publishing it. Either way it feel like its the kind of story we might eventually…

I’m gonna throw the “um, actually...” out, but only in the most gentle way because I’m enjoying the flow of conversation. Hellblade actually started out as Playstation exclusive. Which is actually a potentially interesting aspect to think about. I don’t think its the type of title that will convert to many console…

While I still keep buying Switch games, the only ones I actually play on the Switch itself are Just Dance and Mario Kart.