[-] darkghosthunter@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 months ago

Let's see:

  • There is already Steam for Mac, which a great catalog and sales.
  • The only appeal of an App Store game is cross-platform... in Apple devices.
  • Consoles (with controls) are cheaper than any Apple product compatible with AAA games. (This includes the Steam Deck).
  • There are no platform-selling exclusives.
  • There is no exclusive hardware features.
  • Major most-played games are not available OOTB: PUBG, Roblox, Rocket League, Genshin Impact, Apex Legends, Call of Duty, CSGO2.

Yeah, I get the sentiment: why. But Apple has to start with something, and if they want people to buy games they will need a bigger catalog, and for that they need to keep their porting tools easier to implement.

[-] darkghosthunter@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 months ago

Capcom is on a row giving fans what they want and making millions from it. Compare that to Square Enix.

[-] darkghosthunter@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 months ago

I don’t think it’s a scam or a fraud (legally), but it’s really an undercooked assistant that is $170 too much.

I think that CZ has something, but eventually we will have to wait and let it cook, to check how the company (and maybe the device) are entangled with cryptos.

[-] darkghosthunter@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago

There are few games that define a genre, transforming them into games for history books, and that’s Super Metroid. It refined the exploration-by-abilities genre we know now as “Metroidvania”, much like Dead Souls defined the “Souls” genre, and so forth.

On the other hand, it also had it lows. Like that entry you don’t talk about that we hope someday is declared non-canon and all copies destroyed by spontaneous combustion.

[-] darkghosthunter@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 months ago

Is part of Game Pass Ultimate. I don’t know which tier, if any, but it is.

There is little reason for subscribing when Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is closer in price. There are EA games for free but once you played all relevant games, you’re done. There are discount on the Xbox Store for some EA games.

[-] darkghosthunter@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago

Saved you a click. Signal boosting a site for jobs postings.

Well, making news for Geoff not tweeting something is already click bait.

[-] darkghosthunter@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago

Same here I would use SurrealDB if I had only a front end app, as you can only use websockets and HTTP to connect to the database, and even push authentication to the database itself. There are many features for real-time apps there.

Otherwise, PostgreSQL is more stable.

[-] darkghosthunter@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

They’re “overnight performance experts” because there are similar games that run better.

To me it seems that there was a tight schedule and they couldn’t prioritize performance tweaks over features. I mean, if it’s works it works, refactor later so we can jump to the next requirement.

Sum all that up and you won’t know which part of the chain takes most cycles,

[-] darkghosthunter@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

At this point I would prepare for total destabilization of Middle East. If that what Hamas goal, then mission accomplished and grab the pop corn.

You don’t level Gaza and expect somebody to not be pissed off. Feels like dominoes going down when seen for afar.

[-] darkghosthunter@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Given it’s very niche and doesn’t play ROMs, I guess $200.

[-] darkghosthunter@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Whatever the article says, I comprehend why someone would cheer at his departure.

The guy is a good by-the-numbers business person. That will cut on production companies, but not on an entertainment industry so close to the consumer as any other. Just remember who cheered on the PS4 presentation.

You expect decisions to bring more gamers to your platform (Game pass did, success), or transform people into gamers (Wii did, huge success). Not nickel and dime your consumers. Plus, he is the one signs off all decisions.

PS Portal it’s the epitome of this guy. Something no one asked for, that does less than anything on the market, and is closed to its shallow ecosystem, priced way beyond its capabilities, but on paper it looks like selling like hotcakes.

What Sony needs as PS CEO is someone who understand that is a business, but also that all these platinum trophies are not real… but they are.

[-] darkghosthunter@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Well, it’s normal given how big the channel is and how it dominates (currently) the tech space on YouTube. Everyone wants to jump the bandwagon of reporting the new drama.

Still, it’s weird that nobody picked up in LTT the current video quantity vs quality. Or the ones at charge just wanted more money and stood silent, or LS just had too much in his plate to deal with it. From the leaked audios, he doesn’t seem like the usual perky company owner, and this break hopefully will allow them to clean house.

My theory is there is someone in the production chain that had the keys, wanted a raise, treated as slaves everyone else in his way, and kept silent.

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