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If you want a fully digital copy just buy the digital copy. Those aren’t going anywhere.
These ones are for games that were sold at retail, in a box, but just had a digital code that made it no different to buying the game digitally. They had no reason to exist. Now they do. They give these games some of the benefits of physical copies.
They don’t stop working once servers are shut down btw. 100% false. You only ever need an internet connection the first time you run the game after downloading it. Source: Nintendo directly:
An internet connection is only required when you launch the game for the first time. After this, the game can be started even without an internet connection.
Sorry I legitimately took that as you thinking that stick drift could be “fixed” by calibrating the controller, as in the controller would be back to normal.
Yeah you can do a workaround to at least stop the games from registering the drift as input, but I think if you suggest that then you need to make sure people are aware of the loss in precision and that it will make the stick feel unresponsive.
Taking my downvote away.
Cyberpunk 2077 is a great example.
You’re kidding, right? Cyberpunk looks better with DLSS4 than it does natively lol.
You don’t improve from “diverse games with different skill levels” lol. You don’t improve by stomping people leagues below you. You improve by playing people around your skill level because your mistakes have repercussions and you can learn what you did wrong (or right). You learn nothing from winning 300-25.
Not at all the same, not even sure how you got to that conclusion tbh.
The whole point of SBMM is to match you with people around your skill, both higher and lower. When you start consistently beating ones that are higher than you, your skill number increases. Consistently lose and it decreases. Rinse and repeat.
In COD it works exceptionally well. Most games are an arm wrestle, with the occasional blowout - usually when there’s a clan involved.
If you think that SBMM doesn’t give you any challenges, your skill level must be so low that you’re stuck playing 6 year olds.
I feel like you don’t understand how SBMM works based on your last paragraph. The point of it is that you will always be at or close to your skill level, and as your skills get better you’ll be matched with people of the same skill level. It’s actually good for your own skill and improvement because you don’t just get annihilated or do the annihilating every match since you got matched with plebs or gods.
Why not? Are games worth less now to you than they were a few years ago?
Game prices don’t adjust for inflation every month/quarter/year like other products do, they tend to set a price and stick at it for an entire generation. Only in the last few years have we seen a few companies start breaking this tradition and start increasing prices mid-gen.
As it is, gaming prices are still waaaaaaaaay cheaper than they should be given inflation over the last 30 years, especially when you take budgets into account where games used to cost $50k to make but now cost $300mill.
Because of inflation, not just “because they can”. USD$60 in 2016 is ~USD$80 in 2025 thanks to the Covid money printing years of inflation. That’s a near 33% increase in costs across the board from the last time they released a console and priced their products.
As someone that grew up paying more for Atari games than I pay now for PC/console games, “GaMeRs” seem like the most pathetic crybabies who don’t understand much, especially economics.
Why are they “so expensive”? Inflation. Rampant inflation for the last 5 years.
When you look at the gaming industry, prices have stayed basically static for the last 30 years, way out of step with regular inflation. Inflation at the target of like 3% means games and consoles should cost 3% more every year.
Now they’re wasting it on trading cards.
I think you might need to do a bit of reading and research about the Pokemon TCG market. They should be pouring as much money as they can into it. With their brand name and reach they should be able to get a lot of stock from suppliers, and it can make them massive, massive profit. Pokemon TCG is the hottest product on the market, with new stuff selling for 4x RRP on day 1.
People seem to be missing what this is doing. It’s generating video of gameplay based on 10 seconds of actual gameplay. It learns from that and then can make up to 1min of generated gameplay video. It’s not actually making game worlds in the sense that you can sit down and play them…it’s generating video.
I absolutely love the game, I have something stupid like 12000 hours in it on Xbox, but as an Australian I had to stop playing because Krafton fucked us all in the arse by getting rid of the OCE servers. Went from 10ms ping to 250ms+ ping with that change, and that night was likely the last night I played PUBG ever again. Game is completely unplayable competitively with that sort of ping.
My squad was hovering around a 40% 4-man-squad win rate the last like 5 seasons before they killed the OCE servers too, only ever played during prime time :(
Or, get this - if you want a switch 2, buy a switch 2 if you can afford it.