it makes sense, you have an extremely well reviewed sequel to a watershed title that set a pretty damn high bar. Nintendo is known for delivering fantastic titles so all of this culminates into a massive success. 

I feel like Horizon: Forbidden West’s numbers are inflated because for a time you could only buy a PS5 with it bundled in it if you wanted a PS5 when it was in stock. I own it and have never touched the game.

Just to add to a few of these:

I would absolutely go for an Ape Escape 4.

I read this tweet before I started playing the game and I feel like it really helped me out:

Very much this. MS is the only company seriously investing in cloud gaming right now. For the cloud gaming market to grow beyond its currently niche status, it needs that kind of investment. CMA is basically saying that MS shouldn’t be allowed to invest any more into it because that would increase their market share.…

Basically if this deal goes through literally everybody loses in the end, with one exception. Microsoft has tried to buy its way to first place before and that’s always ended in disaster. ABK is clearly wobbling as a company over their multiple legal issues and if the sale goes through, it’ll be a year at the outside…

The old “Gotta Catch ‘Em All” slogan has been retired from the franchise for around a decade at this point, having last appeared as part of a defunct website promotion for Pokémon X and Y, so the idea that Pokémon are something to be tricked and captured hasn’t been a major point in how The Pokémon Company…

I guess I didn’t realize how grim it was as a child. I just remembered the thinking it was cute that all the Pokemon were riding the bus. 

this has been my rant for a while, consolidation, not the pandemic, killed the malls. i recall there being lots of good music stores, then fye ate them all, now fye is declining. toy stores too, and now gaming. books too. there was a big period of corporate acquisitions that homogenized malls, i used to, as a kid,…

This comment is just sad 

is this satire

Because you can make 10's of millions as a CEO even if you run the company to the ground.  See Marissa Mayer of Yahoo.

They know how to jingle the keys and redirect him so he doesn’t have public tantrums that spoil the brand. If Twitter had proper Musk-minders, they probably would have retained enough core folks to build him a fake Twitter complete with hired villains to dunk on.

[Slams fist on hood] “So what’ll it take to get you into this Nazi infested flaming dumpster today?”

The only way you want this job is if you are excited to promote nazis and insurrectionists to prospective clients. 

I’m sure she’ll have a fantastic time explaining to advertisers how great it will be to have their ads next to Tucker Carlson’s openly bigoted nazi show

I’m loving the idea that now that Musk is no longer day-to-day with Twitter, that this is going to somehow help Tesla. Have Tesla investors not been paying attention to this schmuck’s CEO “skills”? So now that his trolling, white natty focus, BS artist schtick will be hyper-focused on Tesla, this is somehow a good…

Good to hear but also not all that surprising. Nintendo has been developing this for years for a fixed hardware target and they know how important it is to get this game - potentially the best selling game on the system - where players want it to be.

Makes sense, remember when BoTW first came out and everyone was marveling at the performance (the “cross map shield deflect” is a great example) the zelda team was already bringing the heat at launch and now 6 years later with more familiarity with the hardware they can completely maximize the output of the hardware.