The Wii arguably has better first party games than the GC. Mario Kart Wii, Mario Galaxy, DKC Returns, New Soup, Wario Ware…

Why anyone ever watched their garbage videos is beyond me.

“procedural deckbuilding survival indie roguelike”

Same as GOG: piracy.

Yes they can. They cannot stop you from installing the game, but once they revoke your license, it would be piracy.

GOG shills always twist reality to try to make it conform to the “you own you games” lie, but the truth is GOG is no different than Steam.

I don’t. However, using those files after GOG revokes your license would be piracy.

I hope you’re paid well to spread this easily disproven lie.

https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/212632089-GOG-User-Agreement?product=gog

We give you and other GOG users the personal right (known legally as a ‘license’) to use GOG services and to download, access and/or stream (depending on the content) and use GOG content. This license is for your personal use. We can stop or suspend this license in some situations, which are explained later on.

What do you mean, almost? EA is literally a member of Video Games Europe, the organization which manages PEGI.

https://www.videogameseurope.eu/about/our-membership/

You can emulate Mario Galaxy.

It’s Mario Galaxy at home on PS5.

A free content update is coming early 2025.

Legislation to allow installing arbitrary OS and firmware on all consumer devices.

Base Android is also loaded with crap, directly from Google. Android is the worst mobile operating system, with the exception of all the others.

Playnite integrates all launchers into one with a controller friendly UI but it’s only available on Windows.

I do, and then they get nationalized, as all natural monopolies should.

But have you considered all those points that are addressed in the full text of the initiative that I did not read?

Free update.

This guy’s strawman arguments have already been destroyed by plenty of people who actually know what they’re talking about and don’t have an interest in keeping the current situation.

Dolphin doesn’t emulate the Wii U and never will. The devs have explained several times that the Wii U is too different.

The Ryujinx dev is Brazilian IIRC.

It has system access yet doesn’t prevent cheating.

The subscription is only required to buy it, and only until mid January. It’s possible to use Alarmo without an active NSO subscription.

Maybe more people would be willing to use Steam competitors if they weren’t all absolute garbage.

And there won’t even be a movie.

Yes, simply install Steam and run it in Big Picture mode.

Maybe they are counting Metroid Prime Remastered as a new release.

They can’t do anything about this. Analogue already made similar products for the NES, SNES and Game Boy.

No they have not. If they dumped their own cartridge or had the ROM somewhere in their archives, it would be identical to one downloaded from the Internet. The whole controversy happened because someone saw the iNES headers in whatever release of Super Mario Bros was new at the time. Those headers are added by all NES cartridge dumpers, and the creator of this format developed the NES emulator used by Nintendo in Animal Crossing for the GameCube.

I would. They would have been found out already if it were the case, and they already proved they can develop their own emulators.

I use Mailbox.org. Based in Germany so EU privacy laws apply.

No, that’s for all content:

and to download, access and/or stream (depending on the content) and use GOG content.

Which they define as:

1.3 Also, when we’re talking about games, in-game content, virtual items or currency or GOG videos or other content or services which you can purchase or access via GOG services, we’ll just call them “GOG games” or “GOG videos” respectively and when we talk about them all together they are “GOG content”.

2.1 We give you and other GOG users the personal right (known legally as a ‘license’) to use GOG services and to download, access and/or stream (depending on the content) and use GOG content. This license is for your personal use. We can stop or suspend this license in some situations, which are explained later on.

https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/212632089-GOG-User-Agreement?product=gog

GOG has the same drawbacks as Steam without any of the useful features. They should cut down on their “owning games” lies and spend time improving their platform instead.

$70

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PolJdPf9mo

TL;DW it uses a single piece of music which slightly changes situationally

Almost nobody buys a new phone every year. And if a phone is your only computing device, buying a high end one isn’t a bad idea.

The $700 console is overpriced relative to its power and has pretty much no games.

XDefiant sounds like an anticheat.

Some DRMs can detect ISOs, so this didn’t always work.

The GC was significantly more powerful than the PS2.

Because it serves no purpose.

Note: it doesn’t currently work on Steam Deck and Linux in general because of the anti cheat. UbiSoft announced they will add an offline mode, so maybe they will partially disable it later.