If this article is apparently getting enough traffic to get promoted again, shouldn’t it get updated with the correction that Michael Bay actually has nothing to do with it after all (and apparently never did)?

“compressed (low bitrate) 1080p is unwatchable in 2019"

Even then, it’s not a bad deal. You get both Crunchyroll and HIDIVE, along with select other anime that’s available directly through VRV itself.

I find it hard to believe that they have 90 percent of the world’s anime content. There are a massive amount of shows that have never gotten any kind of official translation at all, let alone be put on Crunchyroll.

True, and that point also makes me think the end goal of everything here could be to have literally all private information in the cloud eventually. Like computers built to have no storage space beyond that necessary for the operating system (and no way to add more), and all you can do is connect to their server and…

If this takes over, every game will be only licensed to you for a period of time rather than being owned by you (and subject to disappearing at any time, like P.T. but worse), you’ll be beholden to whatever price the company wants to charge as opposed to being able to buy used copies or having competition from…

Speaking of Netflix, if this DOES work out, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Netflix itself expands into the same market eventually. Though I suppose the biggest issue for them would be that they’d have to have the ability to support running a massive amount of games at once, which would probably take a lot more…

“we will just be streaming the actual game rendering on the clients hardware in real time by that point”

On a sort of related note (since this involves Double Fine), the new “Costume Quest” TV series on Amazon is pretty good. I haven’t seen anyone say anything about it at all yet.

Wow, I somehow hadn’t even known this was happening. But after looking up more info, I’m confused. Is this actually a third game or is it a remake of the original game? Sources seem to differ on that.

Wow, I somehow hadn’t even known this was happening. But after looking up more info, I’m confused. Is this actually a third game or is it a remake of the original game that’s still going by the name “System Shock 3"? Sources seem to differ on that.

“For the best?” Seriously? This is probably one of the single biggest destructions of media and culture in human history. Joke if you want, but I think that’s horrible, and it’s pretty disheartening to see that no one else seems to care.

“The main selling point is the removal of traditional barriers like discs and loading screens”

Mostly the browser site, but also the Windows 10 app when I want to download stuff to watch offline.

“When I was growing up in the 1970s, Big Bang Theory would have blown people away and immediately been hailed as the smartest thing on the air.”

Why does everything always have to be one extreme or another? I actually think something like 2 or 3 episodes a week would be a good compromise. It would give things a little more time to get attention and allow more of an opportunity for discussion.

Maybe the interface is different on other devices, but I’m always completely baffled by people who say things like this. I don’t have a problem using it at all, and I find new stuff all the time.

“Some of those are good, some are bad, none are really great”

Not to mention that Netflix’s numbers are obviously the worldwide numbers. For all we know, 90% of the audience for one of those shows could be in other countries. And Game of Thrones is still way bigger if you look beyond the literal ratings.

Do any of those have full-on nudity, though, as opposed to just “suggestive” content?