Consoles have always been loss leaders for Playstation too.  

I’m not sure why anybody would be surprised that the Xbox doesn’t draw a profit. The entire division has been a massive money pit for Microsoft since practically the word go. And even as the brand has pivoted away from its disastrous eighth gen, it’s still looking at subsidizing Game Pass for likely quite some time…

Oh, look at you. You’ve engineered an argument in semantics that is impossible to lose because nobody is having the same argument! 

I don’t like how all these apology statements talk about how the person may have “hurt” other people and other communities. When minorities are angry, we are not angry because we are victims, like we are weak people to are slighted by the smallest breeze. We are angry because you disrespected us. You signaled that you…

Difference is that nobody cared about the last-gen versions of Shadow of Mordor, Watch_Dogs, Far Cry 4, etc.

“Essentially every business resells their products,” said Jordan. “Tesco, for example, buys milk from farmers for 26p or so per litre and sells it on for upwards of 70p per litre. No one ever seems to complain to the extent as they are currently doing towards ourselves.”

The milk wholesaler adds value by making the milk much easier for consumers to get. It gets the milk from farms all over the place and moves it to a convenient marketplace. They earn their markup by adding value.

Still relevant

Pretty sure Nintendo have developers that can do that if they want to but they do have to plan and schedule all development and games in advance and don’t think putting multiplayer is their top priority

Stifling is almost the point, right? Because an indie isn’t going to want to fight this to find out.

Its really not about the validity of the claim though, it’s about (1) WB now having a platform from which to launch intimidating demand letters that most smaller publishers will automatically back down from and (2) the chilling effect that smaller studios will retreat from putting themselves in that position in the…

Not sure, but doesn’t the specificity of the patent mean that its possible to create a system that looks similar, but differs in enough key ways to not fall under this patent?

Yeah. That’s what I keep thinking about. If you are a developer working on an open world game with enemies that react to the player or evolve over time, are you now calling a lawyer to figure out if you can keep making that game?

You are tiresome, just aren’t self aware enough to see it.

If your first reaction is to laugh and tell me to stfu, you clearly aren’t here for actual conversation, gotcha 👍🏽

Saying Last of Us Part 2 is just a “violence bad” game is like saying Mad Max Fury Road is just a “car chase cool” movie. So reductive, Jesus.

It’s good that I already know violence is bad so now I don’t have to suffer through this.

Adding online multiplayer basically has no function in an emulator aside from playing licensed games; adding that sort of function basically advertises, “THE PURPOSE OF THIS EMULATOR IS PIRACY” in big neon lights. Good way to get the whole project shut down when it comes to Nintendo.

Man, it must suck having such bad taste in comedy to think Tim Heidecker isn’t funny at all.

Really? I feel like they went with Steve because Minecraft has ten times the fans of Halo and Conker combined.