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[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 minutes ago

I love that excuse because I don't ever recall any autistic people zieg heiling.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

And the steam deck 3 will support those games

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

The Switch 1 and 2 are kind of unbeatable in power efficiency, and I'm not surprised a port of CP2077 is running better on the Switch 2 than on the Steam Deck. I wish they used a better screen and bigger battery out the gate with the Switch 2, but there will no doubt be a mid gen refresh with those things.

I think if you have a lot of money for buying games that are only going to work on one system, the Switch 2 is a better product for people that want a system that just works out the box. Steam Deck is for people with patience and an existing library.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Steamcharts showed about 150,000 concurrent players playing the game when I saw a few days ago; I'm shocked at just how popular it is as well. I think he could basically just work on it 70 hours a week for the rest of his life and it would still be a great hourly rate.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Mate, it's one man, Self-published, pulling in the proceeds of a game that has sold 41 million copies. Even if he has made $5 per copy, that's over $200 million dollars. The profit margin on his time even after 10 years is insane.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I have no idea why windows 11 axed that and it just makes the UX worse. It doesn't even make it simpler for noob users.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

I feel targeted

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Haha same here, backlog is not going well. I made a bunch of folders in steam to organise it though so there's that.

Crash Nsane trilogy and Stanley parable were cheap so I got those too.

CP2077 now feels like it's what it was hyped to be before that awful launch, so I'm glad to have waited 5 years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Oh they'd know. Everything at square when it comes to sales expectations is about ROI and E33 cost very little to make something better than FF7 Rebirth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Same here. It hit my <$60 AUD buy point for the ultimate edition.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Urgh.. I thought perfect dark was looking good

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think about as angry that Square Enix is that they couldn't make an Expedition 33.

 

I'm not sure if there's another version of this song out there.

I'm a fan of summoning salt on YouTube and I am shocked that this particular song has so few listens and is released so late after videos using it came out. Seems that HOME produced this one.

 

With game pass popping off the last 18 months it seems like Xbox has really hit their stride as a publishing house. Admittedly they've largely done this by throwing billions upon billions of dollars to buy IP, but Expedition 33, Palworld, blue Prince and other hits popping off shows this hasn't exclusively been the case.

Meanwhile, Sony have had the most expensive flop in video game history with Concord, PSVR2 basically being DOA, and a perplexing pivot to chasing live service trends has meant that the system has missed out on several potential first party hits. Their subscription service pales comparatively to game pass, and there is very little of interest coming in the pipeline.

The PS5 has won this gen over Xbox in terms of sales, but I think customer confidence in their approach has dropped massively, at least for me.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Game prices for the past 30 years haven't kept pace with inflation.

I recognise the argument that publishers are shifting larger volumes of units now, which has been a factor that has allowed the industry to keep price increases below inflation for the last 30 years.

Wages not being even close to keeping up with inflation (especially housing inflation) is the real issue here, not the $70/$80 video game.

You should be angry at your reduced purchasing power in all of society, not just with the price of Nintendo games.

(Secondary less unpopular opinion, the best games out these days are multiplatform and released at least 5 years ago, buy them for << $80 and wait for sale the new releases, when they too are 5 years old)

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