Two reasons you missed. 1. A wired backhaul can better support a Mesh network compared to a wireless backhaul, thus improving the speed of the wireless network. 2. By moving devices to the wired network, especially devices that consume large amounts of bandwidth like video, it deconjests the wireless network, further…

You sort of glossed over the most important value of ethernet: connecting the WiFi APs to the internet source. Mesh networking is sloowwwwwww. People who aren’t technically inclined love it because it’s simple, and simple has a lot of value, but mesh inserts a ton of latency and throughput limitations in your network.…

I have always found it interesting that licenses for things in games like branding, music, etc. are not “lifetime” licenses for the title(s) they are associated with.

You’re right, but imagine if Fortnite had millions of users ready and willing to pay $70 a year on top of the microtransactions and that’s what you have here. They get the best of both worlds. 

But it is Apple USB-C. An amazing new technological invention.

Good. The “race to the bottom” of mobile games 10+ years ago destroyed the market for engaging games that didn’t work like slot machines. I’m not necessarily interested in RE on my iPhone, but there may be other games coming that I am. More of this, please.

Imagine knocking the iPhone 15 Pro for having under 11 hours of battery life, while it is still higher than the Samsung S23 and all the Pixel phones (those by a high margin), and way more than the Nintendo switch which average 4-9 hours.

I am actively happy about this. I hope it succeeds. Gaming on mobile has been defined by free trash games and pseudo-gambling. I would love to see games with the traditional business model succeed.

Hey, if you want full-size console games on mobile and not years after, this is the way it happens. And there's a lot of console games that can and should be ported to mobile. Both new and old.

You sound very high maintenance.

This is a net-negative for the industry. Microsoft isn’t historically a good steward of the things they buy. They are the console manufacturer with the least goodwill toward gamers as a whole.

That’s not even considering the shit they got slapped for in the 2000s re: antitrust.  Fuck Microsoft.

“I fail to see how this hurts the industry”

You fail to see how making one single company own the biggest publisher in the entire world, is bad. And then you wax poetic about something about unions.

Heres a tip: It hurts the industry because consolidation of power is bad. Everyone is “ legally prohibited from engaging…

Now if only Toyota had the bawls to bring this back into production with a retro body, and call it the Takumi edition, that would be rad

This is gonna be disastrous for the entire games industry. There is no way one of the biggest companies buying out another of the biggest companies will be a net positive, it’s going to quickly turn anti-competitive and anti-consumer. But because Microsoft knows exactly what to say and what small concessions to make,…

The downside is that you have to live in New Jersey.

We need a downvote option.

Ah, my bad. Thanks for the correction. Influencer culture’s just got me down, I suppose.

You entirely misread. As I wrote, they are not given the packs, but buy them themselves from wholesalers, and then open them ahead of street date. So no, it’s not advertising, and it’s not why they are hyperbolic.

lol, cod has been cringe since xbox kids were being racist saying the n word but my standards of cringe behavior is different than others.

Holy moly, even for CoD this is cringe as fuck lol.