If you have the demo installed, does that pre-install that part of the final game? Or will it be an entirely separate install?

We bought a $125,000 house while interest rates were still 3%. We also bought a car while auto loan rates were still super low. My wife and I make about 80 grand a year combined. We live in small town Iowa, and we have three kids. And we do... okay. I mean we definitely don’t struggle, per say, but we aren’t nearly as…

Can you imagine working for the developer of Spider-Man 2 — the fastest-selling PlayStation Studios game in history, just passed the 1o million unit mark (about 20% of all PS5 users) and winner of all kinds of awards — and yet you might be laid off four months after you shipped the game? This industry is completely…

Is PC exclusivity also “anti-consumer”? I couldn’t help but to notice you didn’t say PLATFORM exclusivity. You specifically said “console exclusivity.” I just always find it interesting how PC gamers are always talking about how greedy and anti-consumer it is for consoles to have exclusives, but when there are PC…

This might be a stupid question. Well, several stupid questions. But, does downloading the demo also serves as a pre-load for the game itself? Will it save me some install time on the main game to have the demo downloaded? And if so, does that also apply to if I plan to buy the physical copy of the game? 

Okay, but when a vendor comes from Pepsi or Mattel or Nike or whatever company, I seriously doubt they just...show up, completely unannounced and out of the blue. There’s probably some correspondence that happens, heads up are given, there might even be some discussion on a specific day and time. Those companies don’t…

My kids — 6 and 10 — went through a Mr. Beast phase, but they were over it after a couple months. I can’t speak for anyone else, and his popularity speaks for itself, but that’s my personal experience. We all share a YouTube account and Mr. Beast hasn’t showed up in the recommended videos in a long time, meaning they…

Imagine being worth $500 million and still getting mad that Walmart store #4801 in Anytown, USA hasn’t sold any of your candy bars in a few days. To the point that you need to personally go there and do something about it.

Saw one of the Dear Friends performances back in 2005 and it’s one of the best concerts I’ve ever been to. I was also lucky enough to see the Chicago performance which was the first stop on the U.S. leg of the tour, so I was among the first to ever hear Uematsu’s music performed live outside of Asia. It’s something I…

It’s so frustrating that we’ll probably never get exhaustive making-of documentaries about most video games or most video game creators the way we do about the making of movies, TV shows, albums, etc, since it’s so ingrained in Japanese culture to be polite and quiet and private about that type of thing — not to…

I hate to be that guy, but I don’t know if I will ever understand paying triple digits just for headphones or earbuds, let alone getting into $200+ territory. I’ve yet to try any that made me think “Oh, yes, I can definitely see how these are worth it over the ones I paid 40 bucks for.”

Also, even if it WAS just “easy mode,” so what? When games have an outright, clearly-stated easy mode, so what? I would love for someone to give me a legitimate argument for how someone else playing a game on easy -- online games/multiplayer games notwithstanding, of course -- affects THEIR experience with/enjoyment…

And this isn’t 1992. Rechargeable batteries aren’t crazy expensive and die after 50 charges like they used to. I never saw the big annoyance over batteries, either. Rechargeable batteries are pretty cheap, as are chargers. Plus, when my Series X controller batteries die, I pop in new ones and keep playing. When my PS5…

Sure, but there’s still something to be said for having the lower cost of entry and giving people the option to slowly buy the components over time. To a lot of households, $300 now and the other $200 over a span of a year or two is more doable than $500 all up front. 

Exactly this. Some of the success of the PS4 was Sony learning from its own mistakes and knowing what to do differently. But a lot of the success of the PS4 was the result of Xbox One doing just about everything in its power to undo the good will the Xbox brand had earned in the 360 era. Xbox One’s mistakes are just…

“Kevin Hart is also here.”

My first reaction to this was, “Hm, okay, this is fine.” It didn’t blow me away, no... but I also don’t really understand having an “oh...oh no” reaction, either. To each their own and all that, but I’m not really seeing any huge red flags from these two images, personally.

This. I missed out on it for various reasons — free time, not having a console to play it on, etc — and after a certain point I figured I might as well wait for the inevitable generational upgrade. I didn’t think it would take this long...

Wii launched with a Zelda game. Wii U launched with a Mario game. Switch launched with a Zelda game.

This is what I’ve been saying. People are like “this coulda been an email” “this coulda been a tweet” and so on. But I like when a company still goes kind of old school and its figureheads take a few minutes to sit down and talk to us about what’s going on. I want more of that. I can only imagine how much less we’re…