The thing is though, when you’ve already made enough to set you up for life - the “price” you have, should “logically” go away entirely. It clearly doesn’t, but it should, if you have morals.

Wat?

You didn’t actually read my message, did you?

I’m not disagreeing that Deck is fairly niche, nor that it isn’t in direct competition with Switch (no one is, since Switch’s primary market demographic is “people who want to play Nintendo games”) but comparing total sales numbers for a 1-year console vs. a 5-year console seems a bit disingenuous?
If we look first…

We tried it and it seems great! Felt flawless on Steam Deck too <3

Maybe, maybe not. Feel free to do the tally and get back to me. Either way it doesn’t matter much, because the fact is the same: Mass layoffs are being made for any or all “reasons”, every year, and there aren’t any industry upswings that protects from that. Massive profits just means an opportunity to “trim more fat”…

100% this! I got so disappointed when looking at gems and seeing all the fun stuff taken out of them, and now just being primarily a bit of defensive buff.

The 30 FPS limitation doesn’t have anything to do with leftover code from Gamebryo. That limitation is not an engine issue, it is reportedly not there on PC where we can go above 60 in Creation Engine 2 (Starfield).

A couple of things are mixed up here, so it’s difficult to make a direct reply, but basically:

That looks amazing! Thanks for the recommend, my gf will love this I think :)

Most of the free games that aren’t predatory also don’t make up many dollars in that statistic, they are barely a blip on the radar.

All this slow or negative growth explains the swathes of lay-offs we’ve been seeing at vast corporations

A timing glitch/bug in portal protection is one thing, but I still don’t get why:

Looks cool. Someone should do like, an anime of it or something.

And yet the video player is still as awful as it’s been for over a decade; slow, bad at buffering, has a hard time with switching between fullscreen/normal, and disables mute every time you skip in a video. It baffles me that it’s still this mediocre. I would much prefer embedded YouTube to that player - it’s a small…

Why do they do this to themselves? Why not just embrace it, the expectation is already there - roll with it. Just make sure some of the launch bugs are hilarious, and they can’t lose.

I didn’t used to use Reddit much, but since companies are killing their forums for godawful Discord communities that have horrid searchability, I’m having to rely on it more and more.

And then invite them all over to your new page: Roteit

The requirement stated is SSD, not NVMe specifically, so I very much doubt that’s the case.

I mean “should” is a harsh word, but it certainly seems unwise given the very low bar to entry, and the very noticeable performance gains.
What’s weird to me, is if you have a pc which lives up to all the *other* pretty significant requirements, but not the very cheapest and easiest one?