The best selling Xbox in Japan was the 360, mostly because Microsoft poured a metric tonne of money into creating a Japanese market for it, including commissioning two exclusive Hironobu Sakaguchi RPGs. It still didn’t sell especially well.

Yet another illustration that game design and aesthetic is more important than raw power or graphic quality.

Not only are the top ten all Switch games, all but two of them are first party. That’s pretty impressive, especially since the console and some of the games are getting pretty old. 

*wheeze*

I got it for $10 and only did so based on word of mouth and I almost immediately remembered why I haven’t enjoyed a single 3D Sonic game. Hell, I find it hard to enjoy the 2D Sonic games anymore and mid-90s me lived for that shit. 

Sega had already fumbled with the Saturn. The Dreamcast was simply the logical conclusion of the 32x, CD, Nomad, Their PC’s and all their other failed tech coming home to roost. 

They’ve made bizarre design choices in almost every Sonic game ever made starting from the first.

Speaking as someone who bought a Dreamcast in college just for Soul Calibur and Sonic Adventure, Heroes wasn’t underrated.  It’s as exactly as mediocre as it’s average Metacritic score would lead you to believe.  I think the only thing it really has going for it today is that so many worse Sonic games have come out…

If Sonic Frontiers was them breaking the Sonic cycle, I’d like them to kindly place me back into the Sonic cycle. Frontiers was an interesting game, in the sense that it was interesting to see what bizarre design choices they made.

I’ll be spending the final hours of 2023 like I have every year for the past 20 years, in my Animal Crossing village.

...realizing Persona 5 is already six years old...

As a lifelong fan of turn-based JRPGs, there was a point where the future of turn based JRPGs looked pretty grim. It was definitely being phased out and it was starting to feel like Pokemon was the only mainstream presence keeping it relevant in the West.

I’m with you.  I’m completely tired of this Zaslav guessing game.  So until the guy is fired, if nothing else is mentioned about the “genius”, that’ll be a good day for America.

Just stop. Enough with the corporate shell game. I don’t give a shit if Apple wants to buy WB and pay off the debt with the change from under its cushion. This is bad for consumers, but it’s also really bad for the people that actually makes all of the content consumers enjoy - both the creatives and the everyday peopl…

It’s because I’m a longtime Android reporter and this is my thing. 

This is RTD 100% giving the show a quick rinse with a hose before he is willing to touch it properly.

Honestly, I saw rhis move as a way to give Gatwa a clean start, without having to deal with the ramifications of The Flux and all the other stuff that happened in the show. 14th can do his soul searching and healing offscreen while Gatwa can go back to basics and start fresh and have some fun. Hence why RTD keeps…

I like that the implication is just that magical gods really appreciate quality badges. It is one of the most Japanese things in the whole series.

Can someone explain to me how this is a “scam” and not just a really bad product that didn’t live up to the marketing hype?

The 10 year old still trapped in my brain would like to argue that I am a Pokemon Master with all the badges and therefore it makes *perfect* sense for the flaming, house-sized bird that shoots fire from its beak to get in the ring with an Onix if I feel like it.