LTT literally tested a prototype in a way that went against the creator’s explicit instuctions on a wrong GPU (despite Billet Labs providing the GPU on which the cooling block prototype was meant to work - which, as it turns out, was also not sent back to BLL), decided not to correct that in any way, then sold (oh,…

Correction 8/16/2023 1:19 p.m. ET: Clarifeid weekly video count described in the fifth paragraph belongs to Linus Media Group as a whole and updated to reflect only one weekly podcast is produced.

That’s what bugged me most. Linus’ response is easily the worst of everyone else. They all, for the most part, accepted the criticism and said they’d be better in the future. That’s fine, but most of Linus’ response was him whining about people calling him a thief.

Linus consistently painting himself as a victim in his responses is kind of tiring, too. He’s got that sad-faced woe-is-me schtick down cold.

They absolutely do. LMG is more than just LTT. They have a ton of channels at this point, and across them all (all done by the same staff), that is an accurate tally.

Across all of their channels, they total a weekly average of like 25 videos a week

Let’s be clear, Linus was always a smarmy prick...but when you are a relative nobody, that isn’t a big deal. Once he got high on his own products, the cracks started to show. The fact that he is PROUD his shop is anti union and there are NO black on air or behind the scene talent, it solidified everything I needed to…

Now compare that chart to other titles on the top-10 list here.
Tears sales didn’t fall of anything like Hogwarts did.

Yup. I didn’t pick up Hogwarts, because it’s not the kind of thing I wanted to put money towards, but this is such an inane article. Shocking news: single player RPG isn’t a live-service game!

It’s a single player RPG, and like the headline says it’s been 6 months after release with several high profile games that have launched in the interim and soaked up the limelight.

Every time someone claims that JRPG turn based combat is outdated, I’m like so Persona 5 certainly f’d up by having turn based combat huh.

Just want to share an anecdote that I think about all the time: A number of years back I was talking to two coworkers about Final Fantasy. I grew up playing the games off-and-on so I was pretty familiar with them, but one of my colleagues was 5-10 years younger than me and the other grew up out of the country and…

The wiiU had better games than the Switch. There is a reason Nintendo rereleased the entire library for the Switch.

Something like 164 Wii u games ever got released in North America on disc. Once you eliminate multiplatform games the number of great exclusives gets even uglier compared to the competition.

I think with major fatigue I got with regards to Fallout 4, to say nothing of 76, I am going to be very cautious about buying a Bethsoft RPG, I am going to wait for reviews, I am going to see what the patches look like. I get that there are a thousand planets I want to know they are good.

Its very unenviable to have…

PS5 exclusives release on PC months or years later, so, that’s not a valid argument. PlayStation has better exclusives, by any metric, full stop. There’s no debating that. If you want to use the it’s not an exclusive because it’s also on PC argument, there’s even less of a reason to buy an Xbox over a PS5 because…

Bethesda being notoriously Bethesda, I really have no plans on getting Starfield soon after release on anything other than PC. Their games are just so buggy that I can tweak all sorts of settings that I can’t on console. As well, tons of people upgraded their computers during quarantine, so most of us have capable…

He’s definitely correct in that it’s highly unlikely someone will sell their PS5 or Switch to pick up a Xbox Series, so the focus really needs to be on committing to their current player-base and trying to be that 2nd console for those who only have one of the other machines. Great games will help there. Although…

I do! On the one hand, I was against the acquisition because it veered too close to a dominating market position by one single party, meaning they would actually have the power to drive prices on their own volition.

Bobby Motick is a piece of shit, who cares what he has to say.