I’m not exaggerating even a little. I’d rather never play a game again than deal with handheld Windows.
Using Elden Ring as an example of a multiplayer games is a joke, right?
Luigi’s Mansion, just like everything else Nintendo makes, made their money from adults. It’s not a sign that somehow Sony’s bigger, better library can’t support a handheld. 5 years from now, a handheld PS4 would still be a better option at launch than the switch was when it did.
They’re not. Windows is not functional for a handheld, period, and not paying for a subscription when no games let you use Linux isn’t relevant.
Kids are an afterthought at absolute best to the Switch’s sales volume. It is a success because of adults, and PS4 would be a success because of adults. It doesn’t need to sell to a single kid for it to be completely outside the realm of possibility for it to not be an immediate, runaway success.
I promise you that a handheld PC isn’t a consideration at all for the majority of the customer base we’re discussing. Steam deck is “not that bad” compared to how awful Windows is, but it’s not anywhere in the neighborhood of a console for ease of use. The gap may be shrinking, but it’s still massive. You have to choose between Windows, which is complete and utter dogshit for every use case, but awful even compared to anything else for handheld gaming, or Linux, where you don’t have to worry about that subscription for online play because every game those people want to play will block you.
The steam deck is not capturing console gamers. It’s a niche device for tinkerers. It is not and will not be competition in any meaningful sense. It could be so powerful it plays games the PS7 won’t be able to and still have no impact whatsoever on a handheld PS4’s sales.
Non-AAA games aren’t “kid’s games” and joycons are the least durable piece of hardware ever manufactured. Kids aren’t why the switch is a success.
The switch was way more dated than a PS4 will be. Jaguars was shit, but not that shit.
Handheld PCs aren’t meaningful competition for the majority of console buyers. The console experience isn’t “something they put up with”. It’s a massive value add by removing any need to ever think about configuration, optimization, compatibility, etc.
People are paying $200 just to stream PS5 games. $400 to play PS4 games and still stream PS5 games will sell every unit they can manufacture. Unlike the switch, PS4 is actually viable for most large scale open world games.
PS4. It’s that simple.
That can absolutely be done, and has a huge library, including many current games that don’t need the high power of current gen. It can also stream PS5 games. Just use the modern controller setup and you’re good to go.
Because they’re P2P. Just watching is also distribution.
So yes, in reality, they’re sending legal threats asking for viewers to voluntarily pay fines to avoid being dragged to court.
Ignoring that that’s complete bullshit, balatro doesn’t even pretend to gamble.
You’re not gambling🤦♀️
Gambling is what kids shouldn’t be able to do.
They’re complaining that it doesn’t do fake GaaS treadmill bullshit.🤷🏼♀️
I would genuinely look at a parent saying their kid isn’t old enough to learn poker hands exactly the same as if they said it about cribbage or rummy.
It’s nonsense.
There’s no possible rational standard where balatro could theoretically be age restricted.
It’s dressed up solitaire.
There’s no reason for the rest of the generation. It will just kill sales for those games. The “series” consoles are a completely lost cause.
If they want exclusives as a strategy, it needs to be at launch of the next generation. Until then even short timed exclusives just cost them money.
I wouldn’t want a random gift of a wallet (with a probable exception of an obscenely expensive high quality leather that’s really well hand crafted, maybe.) You don’t know me well enough to know what I’d consider an upgrade.
I intend to eventually add a couple pockets to my ereader sleeve so that serves double duty and I don’t need a separate wallet. But until then I just want it out of my way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickrey_auction
There are numerous formats of auction. I don’t think a Vickrey auction is what they did, but it is an example of a sealed auction format that is well supported as legitimately and efficiently maximizing value for the seller.
Why don’t Americans…
My guess is that he’s a non-native speaker used to a different sentence structure and this is what he meant.
You don’t get a pass on this time until you fix this time by publicly terminating your relationship and paying all the costs you created, including lost business.
By authorizing them as a legal representative, their actions are your actions. Recovering from them is your issue, not the victim’s.
When you hire someone to act on your behalf, all of their actions are your fault. They are you.
I’m not saying this shouldn’t be a huge warning sign not to hire this company to everyone else. I’m saying the only possible way to not be the bad guy would have been a statement “we terminated our arrangement immediately and will pay all of the costs of our mistake”.
They did it on Funko’s behalf, at their direction.
It’s perfectly fine to also blame the partner, but Funko ultimately bears 100% of the responsibility for the actions they instigated.
I never once got a useful result from their search. It was the worst thing I’ve ever seen.
if you claimed 1% of the total gameplay hours are multiplayer, you’d be lying, because there’s no way anyone actually believes that. It’s a single player open world with a tiny bit of online flavor. Exactly zero of your three games require a subscription on PlayStation, because the free to play nonsense doesn’t either.
The fact that people sell trash that doesn’t work isn’t evidence that it works.