Do any consoles support that interchangeability now, though? I own a current gen one but I haven’t really been across consoles since I stopped needing to be for work. Just curious if this is a feature we currently have that this change will lose, or a wishlist feature that this would just make less likely to happen.

at the end of the day XIM/Cronus is NOT communicating directly with the console, it‘s the Controller that is the sender of the inputs

These are weird points to argue since they’re all also true of consoles. Except the million frames a second part, but now that consoles are starting to properly support 60fps it’s nice that everyone gets to see first hand how much of an improvement high frame rate makes.

All inputs are transferred through the original controller, XIM/Cronus is technically placed behind the controller and isn‘t communicating with the Xbox at all.

The second one is a truism regardless of this - things getting rarer and more expensive when they’re out of print is how it works for pretty much everything.

I don’t assume anything about his views, they’re in the article.

It’s a shame that not long after he left, Sony went on a studio buying spree and acquired 11 studios in around two years. I guess his views on not consolidating the industry weren’t shared by the rest of the executives.

Even putting G/O’s damaging influence aside, I think there’s always going to be the bigger problem of talented writers moving to less niche publications. A good investigative journalist is going to be in demand across a much wider slice of the industry than just video games, and the bigger and more prestige places are…

Just a snide observation of EGS in comparison go Game Pass.

I thought there was something in the patch notes about items protected from accidental sale, but maybe it affects equipped items only? Marking other items for no sale would be a great feature.

Schreier had some awesome articles and I miss him too, but let’s not pretend everything he wrote was Pulitzer material. He wrote blog stuff too because this is a blog, not just a news outlet.

Sorry in advance for the snark, but Game Pass is almost the opposite of EGS in that respect, where devs frequently don’t return after their first release on the platform, particularly where exclusivity deals are involved. Now that I think about it, Game Pass and EGS also seem to be opposites when it comes to profit,…

You know this is an entertainment blog, not ‘Reuters for video games’, right? Not every article needs to be in-depth investigative journalism or dispassionate newswire-style writing. It’s perfectly fine to just report an interesting gaming thing people are talking about.

I guess I tried out Connections a while ago, the link was already visited when I googled it just now. I think some people are misunderstanding the challenge - it’s not just about finding words that make sense in a group, it’s about doing that across up to four groups simultaneously. When there are five or more…

This snark never made sense to me. The job is to find newsworthy or interesting things to share with readers. Why would it matter that the interesting thing was found on Reddit, or Twitter, or anywhere else? It should only matter that it’s interesting to the audience that reads this site.

I think you’ve missed my point. The myth isn’t whether Game Pass reduces regular sales - obviously it does, that was never in question. The myth is whether releasing your game on Game Pass is financially worse for you, eg. because the amount of money you get from a Game Pass impression is substantially less than from…

I agree that it’s better for indie games more often than not, I took that view in the last two sentences.

Physics is simulated for all enabled objects in all loaded cells, it’s not dependent on visible rendering. As someone else noted, this is both normal and necessary, otherwise all physics would pause simply because you weren’t looking at it.

I think it’s a safe bet that indie games do get cannibalised more, even if only for the risk factor - gamers are a lot more likely to play a game of uncertain content, quality or pedigree when they’re not paying any more for it than they already were by maintaining the GP sub in the first place.

it needs to not be widely available elsewhere