“men shouldn’t be creepy” bullshit

Your argument is the same nonsense that people lob at those making a living doing streaming in any capacity though. There’s a market for it, it’s not harming anyone, and you don’t have to view it if you don’t want.

I imagine the change points to the possibility that what they’ve got is not a sustainable business model. I appreciate being able to donate, but how do you maintain a business where your users can opt out of providing you much of a cut at all of the transactions you handle?

Playstation used to be that way, but they’ve ended the regional distinction with the PS5 apparently. All systems use X to confirm/do and O to cancel by default now.

There’s a common thread among a lot of the games available here, in that they’re frequently from older video game companies that stopped existing as a proper game developer/publisher at some point. They’re generally held by some sort of rights holder that maintains the game company as a collection of IP.

The longterm problem I think is the games they’re able to license are generally the same sort that end up on any number of other devices in roughly the same collections. They’re not bad, necessarily, but they’re also not the standouts people think of usually with emulation. No Nintendo, obviously, no Sega, no Square…

You could probably make it different enough to get by. 8-bit sprites are hugely open to interpretation, as anyone who’s looked at the different box art for Japanese and Western games has seen.

Divorce it from being a commodity and you can still buy and sell stuff with it.

Switch cartridges come in fixed sizes, like 1GB, 2GB, 4GB, 16GB, 32GB. 32 is the current largest, but only a handful of games take advantage of it, because it’s also the most expensive.

They probably meant sudoku as a joke.

There’s a lot I like about 2 despite how flawed it was. But yeah, I dunno about best.

At some point optimize just means making the Switch version the worst version of a game. It’s worse for particularly niche games too when it costs more to fit them onto a more expensive cartridge.

Except as I said, carts are expensive. The bigger carts are more expensive. Publishers already have chosen to go with a smaller cartridge in order to save money and have the user download the rest of the data. NBA2k famously did this, and so did the Borderlands Collection; only the first game comes on a single 8GB…

I get the appeal to some degree with older games. But the pacing of modern JRPGs doesn’t really seem ideal for portability. The Persona games for example often have fairly long introductory sequences that last over an hour before a solid pause. They’re often not the greatest kinds of games to pick up after having not…

Ideally it’d be nice if it were more accessible still. I’m all for everything being on PC eventually, even though I know it’ll never happen.

A sprawling four dual-layer DVD JRPG seems an ill-fit for the Switch, personally. I know some people are convinced that the Switch is ideal for every kind of game, but it’s honestly not the best system for large games.

The id Tech engine is wonderful at what it does, but Doom is decidedly not an open world adventure RPG with lots of NPCs to keep track of and the ability to move objects and set them just about anywhere.

Just yesterday I heard about a fan project to convert Icewind Dale II, whose source code has been lost, into what is essentially a mod for the original Icewind Dale, in sort of a reverse of the process that saw the original Baldur’s Gate ported into the second game’s engine (along with all the enhancements that…

I feel like Microcenter works in part because of volume and how big a store they each are. But there are multiple Gamestops in just my hometown. Can you imagine how picked over a Gamestop-sized Microcenter would be with current parts demand? Hard to pay employees when you’ve got nothing in stock.

There’s a lot of people convinced the power of positive thinking will distort reality in their favor. And attaching a moral imperative to the stock trading didn’t hurt either.