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That just sounds like all you had access to was a Nintendo console, not necessarily due to your own choice. I missed out on all the early zelda, metroid, and mario home console gam…

I think they make a bunch of money having Windows being the default installed OS on prebuilt PCs and laptops. Gaming PCs and laptops are a pretty large market included in that. The…

They've released a Warcraft Battle Chest which includes remasters of those games at three times the price (but also includes Warcraft 3), hoping to capture those old game sales int…

Exactly this. My dad still demonstrates his CubeStormer and other Lego robots on behalf of Arm at trade shows, because both the Lego robot control unit and the phones used for came…

No it doesn't necessarily change what the emulator is used for, but it changes the optics on what it's developed for. If you develop an emulator without any methods of DRM circumve…

Yeah I've used the candle trick with a Wii before too, but that doesn't mean it isn't a much larger barrier for entry than Switch games working most of the time with just a standar…

"Your entire gaming experience will be better if you spend twice as much on new hardware than something which came out 7 years ago, and also forfeit a bunch of other switch feature…

Nintendo have typically been pretty good with backwards compatibility as newer versions of consoles come out. GBAs could play GB/GBC games. DS could play GBA games. 3DS could play …

Most popular Wii games had significantly different control schemes than what is available on a standard PC. Afaik, dolphin was primarily used for things like Smash Bros but other s…

A lot of games are only on PS5 and Xbox S/X, not available on PC or other platforms. So if it's exclusive only to other securely walled gardens, they still don't need to bother.

The yuzu people were doing things that are morally reprehensible. From what I've heard: * They managed a private discord with hired moderators that actively encouraged piracy. * Th…

The emulator could have been developed and released open source without the ability to decrypt Nintendo games, which (I believe) is a copyright violation and one side of the lawsui…

How is the Switch overpriced and underpowered? I picked up a switch lite with a game as a bundle for my wife for £180 brand new. If you want detachable controllers and the ability …

Unless you have any health issues whatsoever, or want to have a child, at which point you absolutely should not move to the US. Maybe the ridiculously inflated tech salaries in the…

If I ever win the lottery I'm dropping software engineering to do music somehow. I play guitar and learn music theory as a hobby, but only at a beginner/intermediate level with not…

I thought LoL and Valorant e-sports was breaking records year on year? At least in Europe and Asia, I know the LCS is on the decline.

It's 100% for pushing the Samsung phones, the whole galaxy unpacked event theme was "Galaxy AI." Everyone I know has gone from upgrading every 1 or 2 years to 4+ years, including m…

> If it's truly something consumers value... You're acting like consumers of medication have a choice. They _need_ certain medication and if the only option doesn't include safety …

Yup, same here! Used GameMaker extensively before getting into Minecraft modding and Ludum Dare game jams with different engines (LWJGL and XNA/MonoGame). 16+ years later and I'm a…

> A billion is a tough number to understand I love using the money analogy for this: "If you earned $1 every single second, that's $60 per minute, $3,600 per hour, $86,400 per day.…

It's exactly the same before tax: £59.30 GBP incl VAT ~= £49.42 GBP excl VAT ~= $60.29 USD

By selling consoles at a loss, more people can afford to buy them bringing in a larger audience. And even the people who could afford a more expensive console will simply have more…

They do run their own platform, the Epic Games Store, which is PC only but trying to compete with steam. Want to know how much cut they take in the Epic Games Store? For things wor…

Fortnite is free. They release patches to the game weekly, with major patches every month or so, which are also free. The _only_ revenue stream in fortnite is cosmetic skins, which…

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepfake : > Deepfakes (a portmanteau of "deep learning" and "fake"[1]) are media that take a person in an existing image or video and replace th…