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@TKundNobody Don't ask questions you aren't prepared to handle the answers to.

@Sonicka Maybe some Union issues too.

@Skunkfish Agreed. Still kind of miffed that the planned ARMS comic series never got off the ground. Could of helped the game by expanding on the world's lore and universe.

@Fulgor_Astral Fortnite is smart enough to know about the curse, so they disallowed him from joining.

@Zeebor15 Yes.

Thanks Wade.

...Wait a minute, I'm not @Zeebor15!

@SlackerArtist For this one or for 5/6?

@OorWullie The issue, I think is that 64GB are the SMALLEST card available and that making 32GB card is both uneconomical (The price of making a 32GB would be only slightly less that 64GB meaning that it costs more per a GB with less data) and maybe even impossible (If the Express MicroSD standard can't even store 32GB without changing the speed of access)

The way I see it, within a year or two, the price of production of Express MicroSD cards will come down to match the price of a Game Key card. Though customers really have to stress the fact that they DEMAND the actual game rather than cheaping out.

@Zeebor15 No, what I'm saying is that no one in Sonic Team can compose good chiptune music anymore. It's clear that Sega didn't care about making the beta versions of the music actually sound like a final version. Looking at you Super Sonic theme.

@MrDocena What gets my goat is that not only are the weapon skins in a gacha, but they have LIMITED USES! What's the point of having them be one time uses if you're never going to use the super high rare skins?

@Zeebor15 Sonic Origins say otherwise.

@Zeebor15 ...So why didn't they tried to wack him yet?

@Zeebor15 And yet they couldn't get the rights for Sonic 3's music.

If someone could show us the price of making a key card compared to a full game card, MAYBE I could understand why publishers are pushing it so hard. Maybe.

My hope(ium) is because Switch 2 carts are the same as MicroSD Express, the price of manufacture will come down and some might actually put their games on the cart instead of us needing to download the game. But that seems as likely as the current US administration suddenly having morals. Which is to say, impossible.

Guess Metaphor is going to wait until 2026 then.

@Joekun I see Sony giving a better deal on CDs if you were going to publish on the PS1. Rather than paying Sony twice, once for the PS1 License and once for the CD pressings, a developer could get both fees paid at the same time at a lower price.

@TheMainMii Nah, Metaphor will be a key card. It is Atlus/Sega after all.

@Fiergala It's a miracle that it has been re-released, after the whole divorce saga between Natsume and Marvelous.

@Zeebor15 I mean, who does?

@Zeebor15 I'm wondering if he has plans to buy AtGames JUST for the Ms Pac-Man royalties. The fact that scum company put a price tag of at least $10 Million just for the royalties, I'm almost sympathetic at how Namco is trying to erase the Ms Pac-Man name. Almost.

@Nintoz I think people's beef with it is that it was Nintendo who shot first. Xbox and PlayStation were going to do it anyways, but no one saw Nintendo being the one to set the $80 price first.

AGAIN?! Come on Level 5!

I miss the days when 8Bitdo controllers had a Super Famicom/ Euro SNES, color scheme.

I hope that this is also retroactive. Remove the offenders and maybe refund those who did buy the junk.

@swoose And Rick May, though he died of Covid, IIRC.

@Sylamp It's even worse than that. I believe Sony sold off the IP years ago and no one knows who actually owns it nowadays.

@AussieMcBucket Unlikely.

@NPC411 @Dom_31 SAG-AFTRA has long looked the other way when it came to Global Rule 1 (Don't work for any non-union roles) for Video Game Voice Actors. However, when the strike began last year, they heavily started to pressure VAs to follow that rule, which is kind of hard considering at least 75-80% of voice acting performances isn't unionized. (Not just dubbing for games/anime, but also voice-over work for stuff like commercials and audiobooks)

The "union" has also been bullying studios who aren't on the strike list and I assume Nintendo is one of them. However, it's possible the bullying has backfired (thanks in part to a few voice actors...) and most video game companies are starting to avoid any LA voice actors for many years to come. (Which means good news for those living outside of the US, especially the UK)

Could anyone see if Laura Faye Smith still voices Rosalina? If not than it's very certain Nintendo is replacing VAs to avoid going though the union. (IMHO, that's a good thing because F SAG.)

@PikaPhantom Considering Sega's other Switch 2 games... It's probably a Key Card.

Burger^2? No thanks.

@N00BiSH In all honesty, I can't blame them.

@GameOtaku They already did remakes for P1 and both P2 games... On the PSP. Though IIRC, a few years ago, Atlus put out a poll about that games people wanted remastered, with both Persona 2 games tied for second place. First place went to 3.

@GregamanX ...You are aware they did change Kanji's voice actor. Hell, his voice was swapped out in the middle of the anime's dub. That said, if you mean Matthew Mercer, it's possible he might come back, considering he voices Yusuke (Not Yosuke) in Persona 5.

@Sabruka Probably because of the shadows and shading. Though on the other side of the coin, it's not AI because "AI Art" usually fails to pick up on the more tiny details. That and look at how many different background elements there are. A bot could NEVER get them all looking right.

@Samalik IIRC, they bought the rights to both (Yes, there were two) so that they could NEVER see the light of day.

Yea, I'm going to side with Epic here. Not because I like GenAI, but because I hate SAG-AFTRA. Especially the crap they pulled with Genshin.

Short version: SAG-AFTRA tried to bully Hoyo into making Genshin a union project under the guise of AI protection, when it was actually was a ploy to make it so only actors from the TMZ (Basically LA) could be on the project. The whole thing fell apart when one of the newer VAs was replaced and a couple of the other VAs jumped on him for being a scab, despite ALL of them being scabs to begin with. (Since they were working on a non-union project)

@rallydefault My only thought is that they can't make smaller cards for a lesser price. In laymans terms, 32GB card costs the same to make as a 64GB card, so why bother making a card with half the capacity for nearly the same price?

TBH, it's not so much as "horror" as it is a parody of both crappy 90's edutainment games (mostly Sonic's Schoolhouse) and other "horror" games.

@Orpheus79V Or Paramount could be spicy and move Sonic to the same day as Zelda.

@Fizza I think this alone is why they're waiting to release it until 2026.

@HammerGalladeBro I think Namco was in the running to buy Sega in 2004 or so before Sammy picked them up.

@Dr_Lugae Remember that Sony was on a buying spree at the time, I have no doubts they set this up so they could buy Nintendo later on, like they did with Columbia Pictures and CBS Music. I actually think it's genius they made a back room deal with Philips to break up the deal they had with Sony. Better to have a competitor than to be annexed by a mega-corp.

@MirrorFate2 That was sadly also my first thought when I saw this. Instead of "Yay! Persona 4 Remake!" I went "Oh god. A Persona 4 Remake."

@Zeebor15 I'm more so interested of how long the contract is for. It's gotta be at least ten years, but that means it's up for renewal next year, in 2026.

@PipeGuy64Bit I think it was mostly due to the GameBoy's tiny ass screen and no backlight. Then again, it was the same list where Mario 2 was a "bad game" because of it being a reskin.

Strange how Sega didn't bring up Angry Birds in this.

@Zeebor15 Couldn't Shiver do it? I mean, they ARE part of Nintendo.

@N00BiSH Me thinks its because of the interface looking VERY much like Maniac Mansion, though I have my doubts Gilbert is that petty like others we've seen.

I'm more surprised Rocksteady is still alive and not in a ditch.

Couldn't they at least make it more than a decoration by stuffing the guts of a regular Gamecube inside it?

@Not_Soos Nintendo bought Shiver Entertainment, not Forever.