Braneman

We already have problems with how much bandwidth netflix takes up already, and gaming requires more than that for the same resolution, by at least an order of magnitude. Unless they want to pay for a server close to me(not likely) and pay my ISP for a bigger line or whatever to take all the traffic an all cloud future will bring(impossible) then even if cloud gaming is the future it's going to be very short lived.

I've used the first version of these and they're actually pretty decent for NES stuff because you can just rock your thumb across the A and B button basically at the same time.

banning cheaters should be standard, you shouldn't be allowed to cheat because you have a big youtube channel or whatever. If you want to find cheaters, cheat in a single player game, maybe even cheat in a bot mach offline that's fine, but going online to cheat is setting a bad example and expecting to be treated special because you have a following is an even worse example and precedent to set.

To quote a wise man "I'm a big fan of everybody wins" So here is how you would do this:
Setting in the options menu, on or off, defaults to censored version on. Everybody wins.

Just to give people an idea of how drop chances work for the 1% drop chances you'd have about a 90% chance to get it after 229 tries, and it might not even be the thing you wanted. For the 0.3% drop chances you're looking at 766 tries for a 90% chance. As anybody who has played Xcom knows a 90% chance after THAT many tries isn't something you want to gamble on, especially not with that amount of work/effort put into it.

With the way statistics work if you want to go that extra 9% to 99% it's basically double for both 1533 for 0.3% and 458 for 1%.

This is a case where they should have used one of the Zelda/Mario mangas instead.

The game had enough performance problems as it was, what with the mpeg2(a standard from 1995) massively over bitrate cutscene files and 128x needlessly overtaxing lighting. I would hate to see what it looks like on the switch, it would have to look like it was running on an N64 because the game was optimized THAT badly and it has never changed.

I can understand what he's saying, and he looks to be the best part about this movie. However this isn't like the studio interfering to make something worse, people looked at the design for sonic and it was bad. This wasn't a fan write in campaign to change the design for Sonic, or protests, this was "everybody looked at it and laughed or cringed". You absolutely could have released the movie as is with people saying it was bad like they were.

Didn't NASA, the NOAA, and I think even the US Navy actively speak out against 5g because it would effectively set back 24 hour weather forecasting to only be as accurate as 1 week forecasting or something?
As in bad enough that we won't be able to predict when hurricanes will make landfall and stuff like that.

A streaming only future with the companies in the gaming world is the darkest future I could possibly imagine for gaming. They have every financial motivation to strangle you for more money and change the status quo to "We're shutting down BLOPs 4 because Infinite Warfare 2 is coming out make sure to buy the expansion passes."

If you've played a game older than about 6 years old then you're likely not on board with streaming only gaming because even with basic authentication servers that is the upper limit for how long Ubisoft will run a game. Right now if things were streaming only and games lived about the same length of time AC:4 Black Flag, one of the better liked games in the series would be on it's end of life plan and basically deleted from existence in the next year. AC:3 would most likely already be gone, and the entire AC:2 series would be entirely unplayable. The only traces of their existence would be whatever playthroughs survived on youtube.

That's even assuming that these companies will want to run these streaming servers for these games THAT long because they are costly in both hardware and maintenance, way more costly than just an authentication server.

Edit: on top of this you'll also beholden to licensing agreements, liked the Steam streaming plan but they're having a tiffwith Activision now? Well all your Activision games are gone onto the Activision streaming service. Oops the licensing agreement ran out for this game it's being removed from the service and you can't play it anymore, try and watch Commando on Netflix right now, you'll get a "page not found" error, same with Raiders of the Lost Ark, Goodfellas, Forrest Gump, Lost. They're just gone off of Netflix, you have to have a subscription to somewhere else to watch them.

Put that in the context of games now and tell me that's a good future, because you need a Ubisoft streaming subscription, a Sony streaming subscription, an EA streaming subscription, maybe even an Activision and Blizzard subscription seperately, just to play their games.

Gorilla Glass.

They'll go out by dumping a five gallon bucket filled to the brim with microsd cards into an incinerator. They do this regularly with an ice cream bucket, but this is supposed to be a celebration. You wouldn't believe the applause from the hardware department when those cards go up in flame.

Afterwards they bring out the knives and make a blood vow to never make good decisions about handhelds anymore. It's a popular tourist attraction to see the yearly Sony of Japan handheld games meeting. But I heard that the hardware department wasn't allowed to attend this time, people thought they'd get too rowdy.

People seem to really focus in on the first quote and ignore entirely "we couldn't even get somebody to fix our store page before launch". Sure that first quote is pretty easy to dismiss, but I think it's far less important than the second one.

@CptProtonX The problem with that is that the public domain has been creeping away from us for years. Every time Mickey Mouse threatens to go into the public domain the 70 years after the creator's death jumps farther ahead in time. None of this stuff is in the public domain but mostly because the public domain has been continuously broken down over the last century.

I hope these new developers know how to make a tutorial, the first step is to ask "do you want to skip the tutorial yes/no". The next step is to add in a "Slow/Medium/Fast/Instant" text option.
The last step is to never make a tutorial like in "dream team bros" ever again.

The only place it's practical to stream games online is at home, so they're competing with home consoles and PCs. There isn't a chance game streaming services are going to take off in the face of that.

This really isn't the Atari most people are thinking of, if you look back through the history of "Atari" that company died a long time ago. This is the Atari involved in real money gambling that was originally another company that just bought the third iteration of "atari" to assume their name and bank off of their IPs.

I wouldn't have Amazon prime if it wasn't one of the few ways to actually get decent shipping up to where I live.

I like 8bitdo's stuff I just wish it wasn't so hard to get a hold of here in the US.

I thought the whole point of the docks was that they were so cut down and simple that they could sell them for cheap. They don't have anything in them that can justify that sort of pricing.

I remember when it was being advertized, huge poster in gamestop with Super Mario 64, on a HANDHELD, that changed everything for me. Waiting at a doctor's office? SUPER MARIO 64! Waiting anywhere at all? SUPER MARIO 64! having the original 3d Mario platformer game on a handheld was probably the first time I started taking handheld systems seriously.
Not even mentioning the Metroid Prime Hunters demo that came in the box. Now-a-days they look like a retro inspired Unity game but back then it was one of the most amazing things to come out for a handheld system.

Maybe its just the concept model but I don't see speakers on it.

Well its Konami, if you've seen their past efforts this isn't much of a surprise. If they cared about their IP's they wouldn't have turned them into Pachinko Machines in the first place.

Of course it takes place after OOT, it's not like they can go back in time and release it on the SNES before OOT even came out.

But its Spelunker, why? Why would you resurrect Spelunker? Even in Japan that's one of the notorious bad games.

I don't know, but I think their QA departments kick most of the western world's butt, even Blizzard these days(Anybody who was there for the "priests can be invincible and pick up flags" oversight in wow pvp can attest to that)

Good, that means they aren't betting their futures on scalpers.

It's all about your Toilet Discipline which is like Trigger Discipline but revolves around making sure you don't touch your tablet after you've touched your butt.

This is one case where you want to be very careful, China has lots of MicroSD cards listed at much higher capacities than they actually are. And you will not be happy with what you get even if it's really cheap.

One important thing here is that it is not a Rom, its only a patch. You can't do anything with it unless you use it to patch a rom file.

There is one thing that NEEDS to be taken from the Virtual boy, the graphics hardware. I don't mean the GPU I mean the line of LED's and the spinning mirror that acted as a screen, the whole limiting factor back then was that LEDs were expensive and they didn't want to make their own.
Now LED's are cheap and having just two lines of LED's to make a VR headset screen would be INCREDIBLE for keeping costs down. Any headset that could use the screen tech in the virtual boy successfully would blow all the other VR headsets out of the water.

I think they probably could have raked in a couple million extra sales if they had named it something other than the Wii. Then they probably could have broke 25 million or so if they spent a bit more on the hardware and advertised it based on its upgraded capabilities rather than just on the two screen gimmick.
I seriously know people who have never really even thought about the Wii U because it just slipped out of their minds from looking too similar to the Wii.

Its not going to have any launch titles. The system is so secretive that nobody knows anything about it and the only thing we do know about is Zelda Breath of the Wild that's it. I don't think most developers will be able to push out launch titles in the time we have between the announcement and its release.

So we'll be left with another chicken and egg Wii U launch where nobody wants to make games for a system that nobody bought because it doesn't have games.

So not only is it DLC thats markedly less easy to obtain than normal DLC it has MASSIVE potential to be scalped to all hell and back(Rosilina Amiibos still aren't under 30$ inside the US) AND its on disc DLC.
Its just PERFECT, I LOVE IT, I love that there is now physical DLC that locks out on disc content out that is also being sold WAAAY over MSRP prices.
More expensive on disc DLC that I have to pay for shipping on is always something I dreamed of when I downloaded my first game on steam. I remember thinking to myself specifically:
"BOY its sure nice to not have scarcity of games at launch anymore and not having to pay shipping. But you know what I really wish, I really wish I had to pay a scalper three times a much to ship it out of his smelly hole in the ground and wait a week on the postal service to get my DLC! Truly that would be the best way to get on disc DLC!"

If you think its all right for TPC to sue people for relatively tiny sums like this, that's fine keep buying their stuff and allow Nintendo to increasingly act like a mob online(is there any benefit to to the Nintendo Content Creators program to anybody but Nintendo? do they even give out review copies of games?)

But if you don't agree with them but you just have to have Pokemon, buy them used. Yep, that's the simplest solution here don't bother to argue about this online just sit down and buy used games and encourage your friends to buy used games as well. You pay less, they get nothing and you can still play the game.

I'm not all that big on console multiplayer in the first place, but I do really like the way Nintendo is doing multiplayer: it really seems like they want to minimize greifing and try things that other companies haven't already beaten to death(splatoon's turf war for example) and taking a risk with an entirely new gameplay style like... well Splatoon is something I wouldn't expect out of Microsoft or Sony.
My problem with them however is that they have a tendency to not fix exploits(like in mario kart with track skips) which if you ever want to have a community around your game outside of the first few months you just can't do. I also take a bit of an issue with the pricing for Splatoon and I'm not sure if there was enough content at launch to justify a full 60$ price tag.
However they continue to patch the game and support it and that's what matters with a multiplayer game like that.