It’s not just the bandwidth that’s the issue it’s the amount of data as many people have datacaps.

The article says:

official Microsoft bandwidth recommendation for that game was 50 Mb/s.

which comes out to 23GB/hr. That can add up quick. 10 hours in a month equates to 20% of my cap with Comcast.

This also neglects people who live in rural areas that might not even have 50Mbps available and can’t play because MS streams half the game to you rather than include it in the install files.

Also *Mb/s not MB/s

Is “the west” in the room with you right now? Blink twice if so.

So anything west of China and Russia is “the west?” I suppose Japan and Australia are “the west” too since you can get there if you travel west long enough?

For the fourteenth time, it’s completely irrelevant to the discussion.

You talk about conveniently ignoring things while you’re ignoring the whole topic so you can keep talking about some updates to Fallout '76 as if that has any bearing on Bethesda trending toward doing worse and worse with each new release. You’re making a completely separate argument to the rest of us.

Is that my “line of thinking” when I never said anything of the sort? I don’t think so.

I’ve never played Cyberpunk 2077 nor No Man’s Sky and have zero opinion on them, but you bringing them up out of nowhere as some sort of ‘gotcha’ screams “my argument is based on emotion and not fact.”

So Bethesda is good because Starfield might be worth playing 10 years after it was released? You’re obviously not understanding the point here.

It doesn’t matter that they improved '76 after the fact. It matters that they keep releasing top dollar garbage that needs years of work after the fact to even be playable.

Like imagine if you bought a brand new car that broke down immediately after you drove it off the lot. You take it back to them and they tell you “We understand you’re disappointed, so if we get time we’ll fix it for you and should have it back to you in a year or two.” Are you going to be satisfied with no car and no money for that long? Does it really make it better if they do actually fix it at some undetermined point in the future?

“Bethesda hasn’t improved since Fallout '76 was released”

Make sense now?

and they ended up with something that didn’t really work and shouldn’t have shipped.

That sure didn’t stop the marketing department, as this game was being shoved in our faces left and right as if it was the end-all-be-all game we’d be playing with our grand children in 50 years.

This guy is making the same argument that people do when they claim it’s impossible to make a phone waterproof while also having a removable battery even though these phones already existed and it’s a super basic solution. It’s just ignorance and loud opinions all around.

That really sounds coarse and rough and irritating.

I’m no frame rate whore, but it seems ridiculous to target this when this was the standard on previous gen consoles that were first built over a decade ago.

Dark Souls 1 (remastered) & 3 along with Bloodborne are good options.

That’s a tall order when a fab costs tens of billions of dollars to operate. Somebody needs to make a lot of dough out of the process.

What cheap goods does the US produce and flood other countries with? Even in the US, most of our products are made in China.

That’s what China is trying to do with their EVs in other markets right now too as another example.

“Their games just prop up their movie business”

“You have no idea what you’re talking about!”

lists a bunch of games based on movies

“You can’t fire me because I quit!”

We won’t get Kessler syndrome from a bunch of low flying satellites as they can’t stay in orbit for very long and we know where they’re all at.

In the PNW where lots of people spend time out in the mountains or desert miles away from anything and any service, normalizing satellite communication into regular smartphones would be excellent in an emergency. I know they have special satellite phones now but the costs are insanely expensive.

I work at a FAANG adjacent company and it’s exactly the same thing here. I believe it 100%

I literally can’t even tell the difference between the first set of pictures other than the new one looks like it has an added advertisement on the center panel.

Imagine being in that line of work and having to tell people you’re a “snake oil salesman.”

Oh yeah? Seems you dropped the “people have different needs and experiences” point pretty quick. This reads like someone who has their identity wrapped up in the purchases that they make and can’t handle someone criticizing multinational corporations.

Kinda hard with a “one size fits all” smartphone market in terms of both size and features.

How about a nice aluminum frame with a plastic back? You can still use your personalized case with them but they aren’t really needed if you don’t want one. This was pretty much the whole industry until 2015-2016

Yes glass doesn’t bend or dent because it shatters. I had a Note 4 with an aluminum frame and never needed a case. I used it for 5 years before upgrading and still own it (it still works). The aluminum frame and plastic back are by far the most durable combination I’ve used thus far and it survived many drops hard enough to leave small gouges in the aluminum.

Now I have a thick ass case on my modern phone because it probably wouldn’t even survive a fall onto the carpet without some protection which is a huge downgrade in my opinion.

I’m assuming you must be referring to modern phones here right? I never needed a case on my phone until we started getting into S8 territory when phones became incredibly flimsy and fragile. My Note 4 was plastic and aluminum and survived tons of drops. Same with the LG V20 I replaced it with. New phones are required to have a bulky case added on, which defeats the purpose of making them thin and using glass construction. Also modern phones are way thicker than the older phones with replaceable batteries even without a case on them.

Awesome another decent phone outside of the big 3 that yet again doesn’t support TMobile’s bands. Just my luck…

That added cost came in the form of dealer markups during COVID that never went away since theyre still selling. The manufacturers don’t have much control over what the dealerships do.

That’s a good point that I hadn’t considered as I thought the sentiment was solely toward the console itself. It may be a blessing in disguise though as now grandma can just buy you a gift card if she’s unsure which version of game to buy, so that way you don’t wind up with some off-brand game you’ll never play.

It’s not like you can buy a 360 or One in the store though. They’re selling two versions of the same model.

What does this mean for the TI-84 calculator? This is the processor used in it.

He’s selling modified game save files it sounds like. No Pokémon were hurt or genetically modified in this man’s pursuit of profit.

How would you even call Google? The people that these hypothetical tech illiterate people are likely calling are their younger family members or their cellular provider. I doubt they even know that Google runs Android.

There haven’t really been many ‘blockbuster’ games coming out over the last couple of years either. Gone are the days of people getting hyped up for a new COD or what have you.

Don’t forget his sense of style too. That died in the '80s

What does the game selection have to do with the console itself though? Whether the selection of games is good or bad, the hardware is still hands down better. For quite a long time, the games available for PS4/XBOne were cross platform. This time around we had COVID and supply shortages to contend with, along with consolidation in game studios, which is why they’ve stuck around longer.

Agreed. My PS4 consistently sounded like a jet engine while playing games with moderate level of graphics and moderate load times. The PS5 has instant load times, 4k resolution, and much better graphics. I don’t regret buying it one but other than the fact that I don’t find myself playing games much at all these days due to burnout.

I think we’re seeing the marketing right now.

Do you find them on YouTube? I didn’t even know such a thing existed.