SVB mainly funded tech startups, which Microsoft definitely is not one of - they’ve been around since before SVB existed. What’s been happening in the market the last few days is a lot of tech investors are actually putting *more* money into Microsoft and Apple because they’re safe investments that are not heavily…

Yeah, it was basically that their research said they needed to get a certain lead over Sony during first year and just launching early wouldn’t do that (look at the Dreamcast), it needed everything to come together toward that early lead goal. Exclusive games, early launch, good price, solid hardware. They sank a lot…

No, but a PC release still has to run on a wide enough hardware spec that more than three people can buy it or it’s a wasted effort.

Right but presumably that wouldn’t be the case going forward once Microsoft owns it, they would instead get parity with Sony for features etc (it’s what has been offered to Sony even, but Sony refuses to take the deal just to be obstructive)

Again, clearly was not talking about Wo Long. I didn’t make a single assertion about it. Maybe it is more accessible than Fallen Order was, maybe it isn’t. I was only agreeing with previous poster that Fallen Order is highly accessible and pointing out that it also gained absolutely nothing of value by trying to be a…

Sakaguchi has a great resume, but should we really be taking the word of someone who has *consistently* made terrible decisions and released his post-Square games on the worst possible hardware to be successful with each time, about this particular issue?

Sunk cost fallacy in action.

Also why Sony gave up and transitioned to x86 hardware for PS4 - much easier to develop for, and everyone doing cross-platform work can just develop essentially for PC.

They’re going to have to tackle all these problems and more once they bring it to PC (which they 100% absolutely are going to do). At least the Series S guarantees a SSD.

It’s not about improving working conditions.

Microsoft deliberately released the 360 early to steal a march on Sony, their market research at the time said basically if they could get an 8-10m head start they’d dominate the whole cycle.

“What if instead of buying Activision Blizzard, Microsoft just made the Switch 2?”

Assuming it wasn’t an actual deliberate plot to make the Sony versions buggier (which really just doesn’t make sense, is an extremely bad-faith argument and would also presumably run afoul of the feature parity clause in the 10 year agreement that Sony are refusing to accept) and it was just a genuine fuckup that only…

Very clearly wasn’t talking about Wo Long here?

This isn’t really true if you bother digging below the surface and reading the lore. And honestly the characterization for basically everyone is paper thin, male characters included, unless they are a major part of the main plot. Yes, some of them have been expanded, but you’re massively overexaggerating

I would argue…

It would actually be a pretty cool feature for an online subscription service, provided that they trained it entirely on art that was intended and authorized for the purpose rather than just skimming it unethically off various art sites.

It was still going on after 2008, it just pivoted into the “all the games coming out of Japan are shit and JRPGs especially are behind the times” discourse that happened around 2008-2012 or so. During that period where eg Keiji Inafune was out there talking about how behind Japanese development was, the JP publishers…

Doing stuff algorithmically is not the same as having an AI generate in-between frames. Games have been doing interpolation between keyframes, animation blending, inverse kinematics and so on for decades, there isn’t AI involved, it’s generally just fairly complex differential math.

But at the same time, releasing it just for Playstation vs multi-platform does reduce their potential earnings. Maybe not by that much (especially since PC version still happened, albeit later) but obviously Sony had to pony up at least as much as Squenix expected to lose by not having it on Xbox as well.

This. It’s the only Soulslike I’ve had the patience to finish.