If Microsoft couldn’t do it it seems shortsighted to jump ship hoping Spotify can somehow pull it off through sheer money dropping ability.

Doesn’t seem very likely, personally.

The cart really only has value because of the box it’s in. After it’s taken out it doesn’t really matter what they do to it. It’s not a particularly rare cart in itself.

Well good thing there’s nothing particularly pressing about our current cultural situation that might need addressing, I guess.

I feel like a lot of games abuse the player by denying them agency in the horrible things they often inflict on the characters you’ve come to care about. A game that just makes me feel miserable about the consequences of events I had no choice in isn’t necessarily one I want to play.

I feel like this is the sort of detail that makes reviews like Kotaku’s worth more to me than the aggregate score any day. Like Naughty Dog can make an incredibly high-polished game, that due to the things that the Kotaku review talked about, I don’t want to play.

Balking at the idea of games being political is inherently problematic, especially with the incredibly obvious bias these sorts have on what counts as “political.”

I feel like that 95 doesn’t really tell me anything though. I learned more from the Kotaku review than that 95 will ever say.

I find no score reviews like Kotaku’s more useful lately. Like Kotaku’s review of TLOU2 was more useful as an indication of whether I thought I’d like the game than the 95% aggregate score it’s got on Metacritic.

Even if they weren’t review bombing a game that isn’t out yet, you’d still have lopsided scores probably. Seems like practically everything on the PSN store has between a 4-5 star rating. Occasionally you get a really shitty game with less but with user scores there’s not a lot of meaningful variance between 4-5…

Who did Kotaku cancel, exactly? The literal staff of the website in question walked on their own volition, as a group. Kotaku reporting on it didn’t make it happen.

Persona 4 has a clear-cut definitive edition with Golden, while P3 is split between FES and Portable.

There wasn’t a similar situation until Golden came out on the Vita though.

Did they really say that? It was the only version of the game back then. What were they comparing it to?

Wouldn’t be entirely surprised if it was mostly that Japan doesn’t see the XBox as being important to their home market.

If you just want a shitbox that plays certain Dreamcast games maybe that’s enough, but the requirements to do it well are enough that you can’t get by on the same hardware powering these things. There being a good Dreamcast emulator out there doesn’t mean just any cheap piece of hardware will do.

Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s made exclusively for the Japanese market.

Probably not, as a way to encourage buying them collectively. Japan loves premium goods like that.

I got my Playstation TV that way. They were pretty much DOA, and discounted down to $45 brand new almost immediately.

I picked up a Vita before I went to Japan, and came back with another one (limited edition Hatsune Miku model.) Almost got a PSP, but not much a Vita can’t do that a PSP can.