I think I realised what my big problem with $90 games is for Nintendo and it’s this, when I was a kid I used to save up money and buy game boy games. It was an important thing my parents made me do because it meant that I learnt you don’t just get given things for free (gifts are of course fine but at some point you need to learn about working to get money for things you want).

There’s no way he’s going to be able to get $90 in a reasonable time frame. What’s he going to do, cut lawns for 2 years in a row?

He said that in 2006 so I guess it kinda made sense. It should have been re-released long before that though

It’s a weird game design. All of the enemies are like little mini bosses and they all have their own weak points you have to target to do any real damage, and unless you know that it just sort of feels like a shooter where the enemies have too much health. Off the top of my head I can’t even remember how good they are and actually broadcasting that information, it might very well be only in the tutorial or when you encounter a new type of enemy.

So Gears Of War is not an Xbox exclusive anymore (to be clear, this is a good thing). So what on Earth is the point in an Xbox again?

Okay so I’ve skim read the article and two things, one they need to optimise their damn website for tablets, so I can actually read it since half the videos were covering the text, two they don’t actually have any revelations, shocking or otherwise, because they are essentially rehashing already available information with essentially no new details being gleaned from the trailer.

It’s a toss-up on whether AI wrote this.

There are actual YouTubers who are able to break down trailers so accurately that they’re able to develop maps who put out videos that are less clickbatey than that title.

I’ll just wait for one of them to put out an update, shouldn’t be more than a few hours.

Their games have always been expensive , but they are but they’ve always been this side of reasonable. Let’s see how $90 games treats everybody.

I wouldn’t want to spend $90 on my kid, the little shit isn’t worth it.

I have to admit though the deck doesn’t look like it should be ergonomic. It looks far larger than it actually is and it is pretty big.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it is too large for a lot of markets. It definitely seems like a product that was designed for westerners in mind.

Anyone who is even remotely involved in developing commercial software knows this.

Step 1 is growing a customer base,
Step 2 is making that customer base loyal,
Step 3 is and in ads, free tiers with more ads, bonus currency and other BS

Everyone knows that if you’re ever going to charge money for your product you charge money for your product day one. You don’t have a free alpha release or something and then expect everyone to pay later on, that sort of misdirect gets up people’s noses. Star citizen is an absolute master class in how to do this well, not morally of course, but definitely done well.

Because the game isn’t out for another year and it’s unreasonable to expect them to show current gameplay because it won’t be at all representative for the final result.

Then why comment?

If he’s been served it will have been documented, the court won’t have proceeded with the case if they don’t think the person named in the case has been served, so the fact that he didn’t turn up to court means he must have been served otherwise they wouldn’t have had the trial yet.

Loads of people seem to think that you can ignore a court summons by simply refuse to take it. Obviously that’s not how it works if you know that you have been served that’s enough. He would have to prove that he didn’t know he had been served which is pretty difficult.

If a leak causes damage to Nintendo’s marketing plans, then Nintendo shouldn’t have let it leak in the first place. That’s negligence on their part.

That’s not how the law works.

But your honour, he wasn’t even wearing body armour, it was so easy to shoot him. His murder is entirely his fault it shouldn’t have been that easy for me to do it.

Well yeah, that will be their argument and legally it’s a good argument.

I’m so unimpressed with their release lineup as well. They’ve just done the same thing they always do, and made a minority improved Mario Cart and a lackluster Pokémon game. Or, and a tutorial, don’t forget that.

It’s not about discussion. There isn’t two opinions here there is the fact they’re not doing that and me explaining why they’re not doing that.

It’s not more powerful than the steam deck.

The steam deck is a portable computer the switch can only play switch games. Those games are hugely expensive, and the price is controlled by nintendo who infamously never decrease their game prices even after 10 years.

But I repeat myself.

Seriously I just explained why they don’t have a choice, and you’re like, nah they’re still going to do it, even though I literally explained why that can’t happen. Did you even read my comment?

Unfortunately it appears to be in some ancient arcane language whose mysteries appear to have been lost to time.

£1,585.73

Not bad for 16 years I guess.

Technically it isn’t.

The company has a price for the product, importers import the product at that price (sometimes the importer will also be the manufacturer, but that doesn’t actually make a difference as far as the calculation is concerned), then some official shows up and demands an import tariff, the important pays the tariff.

The shelf price is calculated as the total cost to the importer + a profit margin + sales tax. The tariff just gets lumped into the cost for the importer. Sales tax doesn’t make a distinction about how the price is arrived at.

It would be worth it if it cost $50. Of course it never would cost $50.

It would be worth it if it cost the same as the first switch and if the games weren’t so expensive. There is a price point at which it is actually a good value product, but it’s so far beyond that price point now, even without tariffs.

Haven’t they already announced the price?

If they tried to spread the cost amongst everyone no one would buy the switch is already borderline unreasonably expensive. Limiting the price increase to only the tariffed country means they’ll only lose out on the American market not the everyone else in the world market, which is bigger.

Monopoly was around before pong.

Who’s going to buy that camera though? It’s only so you can talk to 3 other people, and none of the games that make use of it look any good.

Have you played the game because it really sounds like you haven’t. It sounds like you’ve just seen pictures and made an assumption

There is no gambling mechanic, other than matching poker suits there aren’t really any poker mechanics, there are no other players.

You don’t gamble anything though. Have you even played the game

That’s why I didn’t pick Minecraft, Civ has a story mode and KCD is all about its story, just like GTA.

Plus it was awful to develop for, so there was a lack of titles at the beginning

Because their only saving grace up until this point has been relatively cheap consoles.

I don’t want that kind of pricing to be encouraging because if we’re paying per hour of campaign then Civ would be $6K and even something like Kingdom Come Deliverance would be $400

I don’t have that kind of money.

I thought it was a command that you could launch steam with that would give you access to older versions. I’m sure I have done that when trying to mod GTA and it needed a particular version.

Wait so currently you can’t install previous versions of games you only get the most up-to-date version. That’s daft to expect people to pay for, that’s a free feature on Steam.

So she’s not even been original?

Oh yeah with all that DLC oh wait

I just want trains to work in this new game. They never make trains work properly they’re always just indestructible juggernauts and are therefore boring. GTA V had submarines but not drivable trains.

Even if I was a millionaire I wouldn’t want my games to have micro transactions in them. It’s not about the cost, it’s about the fact that as soon as micro transactions are included in the game, the game instantly becomes all about pushing those microtransactions, to the detriment of the gameplay.

Also you are mad if you prepare to pay $100 for GTA VI especially because we all know that it’ll be discounted at some point.

If PEGI tried this kind of thing I’m pretty sure the general public would linch them. Fortunately with Steam there can be completely ignored these days anyway.