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In the sense that their PR people have fewer messes to clean up, sure. In terms of exposure with to younger demographics and building a brand that could grow beyond Japan’s borders, not so much.

It’s idiotic regardless of their business model, as keeping a video game console exclusive is in no way preventing character model rips. To say nothing of how easy it is to take live action footage and use that for the purpose of creating deep fakes.

You’re argument that 4k isn’t standard would have held up 5 years ago. 4k is standard on just about every TV today. I love Nintendo but people have got to stop defending their poor decisions.  This is just Nintendo just behind on the times like always.

Not true at all. I’ve worked at several electronic retail stores, and it’s very hard to find a 1080p or less tv outside of online ordering. The vast majority of tv’s now are 4k, and they’re highly affordable depending on what you want. Now 8k is a niche market right now, but definitely not 4k.

Yeah, I agree with this. One of the main reasons I was hoping for a Switch Pro wasn’t necessarily 4k output, but the technical strength to make 1080p @30fps the stable benchmark across the board, with possibility for 60fps depending on the game. The Switch, in its current state, has trouble running current-gen games…

I don’t think this is true at all. Pretty much every new TV these days is 4K. You get 4K TVs for a few hundred bucks. They’re already to the point of basically being commodities. We’re not in the early 2010s anymore - 4K is ubiquitous.

It doesn’t need 4k but when even first party games can’t even do 1080p 30fps, maybe a little boost just to get stable framerate would have been really appreciated.

I’m still sour that a remaster of a Wii game (not WiiU, a Wii game) is still only 720p docked with an unstable framerate. (yes I’m talking about Xenoblade…

I’ll agree that it’s not “needed”, but I would say it does speak to how underpowered the Switch is. Some of Nintendo’s own games chug and look less than stellar on the Switch, especially in handheld mode.

Yeah, nuts to it! I’m going to buy (for myself, rather than a family member) my first Xbox console when some of these start to drop. I’ve pretty much always played MS’s exclusives on PC but with the current state of upgrading a PC it’ll be cheaper and less stressful to pick up an XSX and Game Pass Ultimate.

Honestly, I kind of love that about this generation. You see people going on about how there just ‘aren’t enough big games’ for either console - by which they mean games exclusive to the new consoles - and I... don’t really see it as a negative? Like, ‘consumers don’t feel pressured to pick up the new and shiny box…

Well, it’s becoming an inevitability that I will end up with an Xbox Series X to go along with my PS5.  But fortunately, I have a year or two before most of the exclusives I want to play are coming out.

Yeah, 100% “I’m fine with this.” They have limited stock, they’re making it so their paid subscription is more available. It’s been 8 months. If it was on launch for the console, that’d be aggravating and there might be an issue, but for restocks? Go for it, GameStop, I’m more okay with this than weird-ass bundles.

What's the problem here? They didn't have stock available for everyone, so they chose a method that rewarded their customers and probably also cut down on scalping. They probably got more consoles in the hands of gamers who actually wanted them than went to people who just want to flip them. 

Opinion: more games should have demos available and demos shouldn’t be removed.

Call me old fashioned, but I like owning my games. I can’t deny how appealing Game Pass is, I’d probably be using it if I still played my xbox just for those games that I always wanted to try but didn’t want to spend full price on.

Eventually though, games get removed. I’m sure it’s a case by case basis and I’m…

I mean, I’m expecting he was told what was happening and had to spin it to the best of his ability as not a bad thing.

What? Those games are made by Sony studios. Bethesda was a 3rd party studio making games that were multiplatform for decades. Even if Xbox owns them now they were not XBOX games and those games would have 100% hit Playstation consoles.

It is clear you do not understand the entire point of this article.

I own both consoles, so I’d hardly consider myself a fanboy, but Microsoft’s acquisition took dozens of IPs that have been on Playstation for decades and suddenly said “no more.”

I don’t mind like a flashcard saying “here’s a project we’re working on”.