It’s so weird to see lists of big games coming out of AAA studios like this and realize that I’ve never played most of them.

Implementing the d-pad, 4 face button layout, shoulder buttons, analog stick, vibration, touch/motion controls, integrating a speaker and mic into their controllers could all be considered “gimmicks” too but somebody had to do it first to see what would stick and Nintendo is the first I can think of to really do many…

The N64 wasn’t really underpowered for its time and Nintendo philosophy was never “gimmicks over performance”.

Iwata developed a way to fix G/S' code, not Miyamoto.

Look, I really do enjoy Kotaku overall, and I adore that it’s such a prominent outlet and continues to be explicitly on the side of progress rather than the usual gamer sexism/racism/queerphobia/toxicity/etc. etc. etc. As a Latine gay guy, it’s important to me, and I can only imagine what Black (and Asian, and other…

I love how Kotaku left out the last part of his answer from the article completely. Taking things out of context and only providing snippets. Here is the second half of his answer:

Let me refresh your memory. Here’s what you said:

I think the problem, in this instance, is that Taylor’s been less than honest about the situation. Her first video said she was offered $4000 total, then it was $10,000 and now it’s $15,000 after Platinum showed the receipts. At a minimum she was not fully transparent, and at worst she was purposefully deceptive to…

And $15k wil do just that. It’s literally 50 percent of the median American yearly wage for a few days. There’s no possible way to make that wage and not consider yourself in the very top of the economic elite in this nation.

So she turned down $15k for 20 hours of work? I’d love to make $750 an hour. Asking for $100k+ seems kind of absurd? Like, that’s how much a programmer would make working on the game for at least 40 hours a week for a year. She’s not a big Hollywood actor being cast for a movie. Her impact on the game’s commercial…

Yeah, but it’s also $15K for four days of work. Assuming the game takes around four years to produce, that’s almost 1500 days of work. That’s something in the neighborhood of $40,000 per day. On a team of hundreds, that comes out to less than $400 a day per person. So someone getting paid ten times that is quite…

It’s already been announced a while back that Cloud Gaming is going to eventually add access to games you own on XBL. You’ll be able to buy games for Streaming and Console, and for games with cross-buy (mostly first party games) you’ll also own them for PC. That’s a FAR better model than Stadia.

Streaming is more of an incidental benefit of Game Pass rather than the main draw (access to the library of games and ability to download them to your console.) A dedicated streaming device feels like something that would be sold as a compliment to the X|S consoles rather than a replacement, a “take your games…

I think mainly because you have the option to download and they are supposed to add purchased games to the cloud. Someone is curious about gaming they may start off with the streaming stick and later get a Series X|S if they want to. For that matter an Xbox One as well. Which I hope it’s priced right since Series S is…

The services are monetised very differently, Stadia had users “buy” individual games. Also, Google has a reputation for abandoning their products

20 yrs of gymnastics, and therefore foam pit, experience here. The foam looks standard, but the depth must have been decided by someone whom knew nothing about the proper usage. Gymnastics pits are usually 8-9ft deep, with a layer or 2 of solid foam below the blocks. 2.5ft of foam does nothing. It's almost as if some…

Apparently its not even a pit..ist just a concrete floor with foam cubes on it

Allegedly there isn’t even any foam, it’s supposedly just concrete underneath those cubes.

Looks like both!

This is the same company who thought everyone being forced to give out their registered email address (and thus likely their real name) to anyone who was either on their friends list OR on a friend’s friends list was a “great idea” that “reduce toxicity” and “wouldn’t get anyone doxxed”.