1) This is an old post. I probably haven't been back on this website since I posted this.
2) It's a false equivalent. A Ferrari is a physical object. The labor and materials alone have a set cost. It also has a value because you can sell it on.
A digital Nintendo game, that most likely covered the production costs within days of sale, only devalues the longer it sits on a digital store. £15 from ten people is better than £60 from one. It doesn't make business sense not to have price drops happen.
3) I never said people were entitled to products. I was making the argument that it's better for both customer and business when price drops happen. If a customer doesn't see value in your product, they'll go elsewhere.
4) You're not stealing it. You're purchasing it at a price that better suits the customer's value of said product or current means (which means more today in 2023 than it did When I made this post). When games are unavailable or overpriced, that is when they get pirated. Price drops will actually prevent theft. Like Gabe Newell said, piracy is service problem.
Nightdive would have gone above and beyond too. We've probably ended up with two worse versions because of some Nintendo corporate protectionism. This is sad news.
@Wexter What if that one copy was sold 10 million times but the dev only received one payment of £60? Is that OK? . Because you have to remember we initially settled on "compensate the dev" as the original justification of piracy being morally wrong.
So now we've moved on to licenses in circulation. Which is a more nebulous Idea. Once we get here do we agreed that as long as most of the money makes it's way to the dev, that they recieved proper compensation for their work?
@ThePizzaCheese it's really hard to not be arrogant when you get responses like "it's morally wrong because it's unjust".
@Arawn93 "acts like piracy of new games is still in the morale high-ground"
I've literally spent several posts explaining it's morally neutral.
@Wexter I'm trying to make a specific point, and I don't think people saying stuff like "it's morally wrong" have really thought through why they think it is so. So it comes across as me trying to find an issue, because it's something you've not considered thoroughly.
"No matter how much you try to justify it, actively pirating a game for your personal enjoyment and you don't plan to compensate the publisher/developer for the game is **wrong.**"
Like this. It implies that the moral wrong is compensation for the work, but then I gave you an extreme example of how a legally and generally accepted practice is considered morally ok. Depsite the fact that the dev does not get compensated for that transaction. You even had to explain it away as must have taken place illegally.
It's logically inconsistent.
As far as the dev and the customer is concerned, there is no difference between a second hand customer or a pirate, or whether they play that game on launch day or ten years down the line. In all cases the dev never got compenstated. So the dev getting compenstated isn't the line drawn to determine what's morally ok.
@Wexter I've not misread. I'm trying to understand why this;
"my beef (and the beef a lot of people have) is people who pirate Switch games without the intention of paying the publisher and develop for their hard work."
upsets people. Because it shouldn't. How much is ok to pay?. Say I bought a game, second hand, for 1p. Is that ok? The dev never saw that money, it didn't help them in any way.
@ThePizzaCheese "It's unjust because one person got something for free that others had to work for."
So if you all got it for free then it would be just, no?
"And I already pointed out that DRM just hurts legal players. Please read some of the previous comments before posting."
I'm trying to point out that if, what you've already conceeded, DRM doesn't stop piracy, and that if piracy doesn't equate to lost sales, that the existence of anti-piracy software only hurts the legally doing it. Thus, any piracy done isn't actually affecting the normal trading/relationship between customer and business. If a pirate isn't affecting that, then there can be no harm. If there's no harm, there's no moral wrong happening.
You even said that companies only do it for investors.
Ultimately, anyone upset about pirates getting stuff for free when they can't demonstrate harm but calling it morally wrong, just sound jealous. It's odd.
I was leading you to water and you were p*ssing in it and complaining about the taste.
@Wexter Right, but if the customer got the game they wanted, and got to give the company their £50, and the company got that £50, and the company made their maximum profit for said product, then there is no damage to any party, and if no damage occured, then there is no morally wrong doing.
What if there was a paying customer, who paid Nintendo their money, and wanted to emulate the game they paid for? Is that morally wrong?
@Arawn93 "When new games like Metroid Dread, XB3, etc get pirated day 1 emulation people lost their moral highground argument.
Let’s be real: They just didn’t want to spend money and want free videogames and throw out the lazy excuse of “it won’t impact their sales guys, enough people are picking up the slack” as if that entitles them free games"
Metroid Dread was the best selling Metroid game ever.
Piracy didn't affect the sales.
Pirates just wouldn't have ever bought the game.
Companies spend more money stopping people from playing than they are losing from what they think are potential sales. Being upset about people playing a game for free than being upset about money lost is idiotic.
@KillerBOB "A bunch of nerd guys working at Nintendo sending offensive (to some) memes"
Don't send sexually explicit content to people you don't know that well.
"traditionally dominated by socially awkward"
Yeah, that's on the social awkward person to learn how to interact with others, and not others to accept the missteps of the socially awkward. Like, not sending sexually explicit content to people you don't really know.
"Imagine an adaptive controller that you could play with your latest Xbox, PlayStation, or Nintendo platform. That's what we were working on"
I'd call BS on that one. Nintendo is the most closed off, and archaic platform. I couldn't even imagine them R&D'ing something like this, let alone ever releasing it.
@Sonos "Some, like Ubisoft, Capcom and indies - have sales frequently and deeply. They generate high sales but they condition the end consumer to wait."
AC Valhalla sold faster than previous AC games, and has made the most amount of money of any AC game. RE8 sold like 5 million copies in the first five months, and it didn't have any sales until six months in. The Witcher 3 GOTY has been on sale for around £8, yet Cyberpunk was preordered around 8 million times.
Game sales don't hurt the value of games. They certainly don't hurt the ability of these games to make good returns on investment, which is the real purpose of businesses. Those that are super excited for a game will still pay full price to experience these games sooner. Sales just help widen your audience. Refusing to offer proper sales like Nintendo and Apple just gatekeeps low earners out of the experiences and gives their fanbase a "better than you" attitude.
"2002 was undoubtedly a fantastic year for Nintendo gamers, with the one-two punch of Metroid Prime and Metroid Fusion, the incredibly unique survival horror Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem, and a remake of the iconic Resident Evil all playing their part to make it a year to remember"
And out of all these games, only the non-Nintendo title can be bought on the eShop.
@Dezzy70 Yeah, I couldn't say whether or not religion caused it, but religion has been used to enforce it. And we can see over in the US how religion can send you in to a backside too. Which is why I was keen on reminding us how recent this acceptance is, because of how easy it is to forget and lose it.
It's especially easy for straight guys like us, because we don't live it. I'm a white, straight, nearly 40 guy, who has no long term disabilities (I had depression through my teens and most of my 20s, and I may be neuro divergent, but I'm not sure I want to go through the process to find out for sure), so none of this has ever affected me directly, it's just been a lot of research in to how others have experienced life, and how society treat them. It's been horrifying in some cases, but not going to lie, it's been really interesting and fun too.
I remember being iffy on trans people. Don't know why, there was just this part of me that felt uncomfortable with it all. But I also knew that being like that to trans people didn't fit with my general philosophy. So I went out to learn more. I was really coming round to it the more I learnt, and then Abigail Thorn's coming out video really made my mind up. Even though I'm not trans, I could really relate to her trying to live up to this random idea of manhood, that others had created, rather than just being who she is. I knew what she was talking about because I've experienced all that growing up. I remember those worries being a big part of my depression. It was nice to connect to her struggles.
@Dezzy70 "Same-sex marriage was legalised in England and Wales, and Scotland in 2014,[6] and in Northern Ireland in 2020."
We should be careful about acting as if the UK has been safe and equally respectful for same-sex marriage and the LGBT community.
Those rights have been hard fought for and some of these have only been recently won. And they've only been won by making themselves a "special group" that gets a large amount of attention for their size. Because when they were separate and isolated, they were ostracised, treated poorly, and given less rights.
I really like the idea of all three games coming out with updated controls. I was enjoying the Wii versions but the Wiimote really limited my ability to enjoy and finish it.
I really do not like the idea that Nintendo will be charging separately for each title. Here's hoping they have looked at the Crysis remasters for pricing. £20-£25 for each title or £45-50 for all, sounds very reasonable, but knowing Nintendo, this will be at least £40 for each title, and no discount bundle.
And please Nintendolife, don't go simping and defending their pricing if it is revealed to be over priced. That Nintendo bias from fans is exactly why Nintendo continues to do that kind of BS.
Motion controls were gimmicky and, ironically, limiting, and currently, the biggest appeal there is in VR. Which is covered by PS and PC.
High end hardware is well and truly taken care of with Xbox, PS, and PC.
And as much as I like low end hardware, unless it has a high end option, it doesn't have much use on its own. low end home consoles are really covered by MS at this point.
The biggest uncontested, largest appeal, market is mobile, and Nintendo has always been dominant there. The Switch's hybrid design is the appeal. It is the reason the console has done so well. It covers both the mobile market and the home market, but also has extra appeal because it is both in one.
With all the things wrong with Nintendo's platform I would have given it up by now if it weren't Hybrid. Keep it Hybrid, and keep the appeal. Leave the design and I'll probably leave for systems that do it better.
@nimnio "That's true, but ten hours playing a pirated game is very likely ten hours not playing paid games.
Most people are busy and have only so many hours for gaming. If all your limited gaming time can be filled playing free, pirated games, there is not much motivation to buy them."
In a world of F2P and heavily discounted video games, people who don't want to give Nintendo £60 for a game, aren't going to be giving them £60 just because they can no longer pirate games.
The more likely scenario is they buy something else.
@Serpenterror "It would make sense if this is just a remastered of the 2010 version since that one is done by Activision and now Microsoft own Activision."
The achievement art and descriptions are clearly showing that this is the N64 title and not the 2010 remake (and it was a remake. technically a reimagining, definitely not a remaster).
Besides, No-one asks for the 2010 version. Half the comments seem to not know that game exists. It's always the N64 version people ask for. If they bait and switched for the 2010 Goldeneye, people would riot.
Oh yeah, it's great right now if you pick a game before it launches and play every day for five years straight, but once you drop off, you can't really get back in to it. You have to make that game, your only game.
And what happens in 10 years time?, that game is dead. From a publisher point of view, from a preservation point of view, there's no bringing it back. There's no remaster, or next gen port, or reliving the old days, or new players finding and experiencing the joys of these titles. They are going to live as archived footage and not much else.
@steventonysmith Probably because Coca Cola and Pepsi both spend big money on advertising. If one stopped, the other would eventually start to become the defacto "coke" brand, and it would affect sales. You think the marketing team is there like "we need to spend $4bn in advertising, but we don't know why"?.
@JaxonH Well that assumes that I think pirating is inherently bad. There's 117k in the Switch Hacks Reddit, that's more than 99.9k pirates. So I think assuming that pirating is the majority case use would be incorrect.
But again, out of those how do you tell how many are ruining online experiences, and how many are just having fun with the device and software that they legally own?
@steventonysmith You're claim was that the bad modders heavily outnumber the good ones. You provided an article showing one guy. You have zero evidence, so just say "No".
"Nintendo's IPs need zero promotion"
You are clearly delusional. Nintendo has ads, on TV, and youtube, and social media. They spent over $700m in advertising in 2021.
@steventonysmith Again, citation needed, unless you are referring to the influencers who get sent early copies because it helps promote and advertise the game.
@Zyph "there are more modders with the goal of cheating and pirating than modders that actually just want to enjoy homebrew"
@steventonysmith "for every innocent user who is using mods to play harmless homebrew games there are thousands who are using a modded switch to play free Switch games"
@jrt87 Yeah exactly. My video games have always been apolitical in both the themes and how they were made. It's terrible I have to hear about the political stuff now. I just want things to non-politically stay the same so, I can carry on enjoying them.
Don't care. You shouldn't be able to copyright art or mechanics. The day we start allowing that is day that creativity and art dies.
And we're talking about one of the few companies that has copyrighted a gameplay mechanic to prevent others from using it. So let's not embolden them to try and control more.
Default on is best. You have nothing to fear from these people.
1) If you are putting the headset on, you are opening yourself to communication. That's how headsets are designed to work. It would be like opening your front door and being surprised by people being outside.
2) If you do hear someone, and you don't want to, mute it and move on. Just shut the door.
On a personal belief. Part of the toxicity in game chat is that the only people who chat are toxic. And anyone new to chat comes on and hears people being toxic, and either become toxic themselves or leave chat. And that's a shame because then people miss out on opportunity to socialise, build team work skills, and share advice like any strong community does.
The non-toxic voices need to start drowning out the toxic ones and that doesn't happen with default off.
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Re: Nintendo Admits It Released A New Model Of The Switch To Fight Piracy
@Antares-Scorpius
1) This is an old post. I probably haven't been back on this website since I posted this.
2) It's a false equivalent. A Ferrari is a physical object. The labor and materials alone have a set cost. It also has a value because you can sell it on.
A digital Nintendo game, that most likely covered the production costs within days of sale, only devalues the longer it sits on a digital store. £15 from ten people is better than £60 from one. It doesn't make business sense not to have price drops happen.
3) I never said people were entitled to products. I was making the argument that it's better for both customer and business when price drops happen. If a customer doesn't see value in your product, they'll go elsewhere.
4) You're not stealing it. You're purchasing it at a price that better suits the customer's value of said product or current means (which means more today in 2023 than it did When I made this post). When games are unavailable or overpriced, that is when they get pirated. Price drops will actually prevent theft. Like Gabe Newell said, piracy is service problem.
Re: Footage Of Perfect Dark's Cut Feature 'Perfect Head' Emerges Online
I ran around R6: Vegas with my face on.
It looked like an absolute nightmare and I hope my opponents felt the fear.
Re: Nightdive Studios Was Apparently "Close" To Reviving GoldenEye 007
Nightdive would have gone above and beyond too. We've probably ended up with two worse versions because of some Nintendo corporate protectionism. This is sad news.
Re: Ion Fury Follow-Up Phantom Fury Announced For Nintendo Switch
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Re: GoldenEye 007 Is Returning To Nintendo Switch
I'm definitely going to get and play this.....on xbox...
Re: Random: Billy Mitchell Claims Doctor Won't See Him Due To Donkey Kong Cheating Accusations
When drama is always around you, you have to start to wonder if you are the cause.
Re: Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle Has Been Played By Over 10 Million Switch Users
But this game has also been heavily discounted.
So are people here going to say that this is a success or an example of a devalued game/IP?
Re: New Denuvo 'Switch Emulator Protection' Tech Launches, And Players Are Worried
@Wexter What if that one copy was sold 10 million times but the dev only received one payment of £60? Is that OK? . Because you have to remember we initially settled on "compensate the dev" as the original justification of piracy being morally wrong.
So now we've moved on to licenses in circulation. Which is a more nebulous Idea. Once we get here do we agreed that as long as most of the money makes it's way to the dev, that they recieved proper compensation for their work?
@ThePizzaCheese it's really hard to not be arrogant when you get responses like "it's morally wrong because it's unjust".
@Arawn93 "acts like piracy of new games is still in the morale high-ground"
I've literally spent several posts explaining it's morally neutral.
Re: New Denuvo 'Switch Emulator Protection' Tech Launches, And Players Are Worried
@Wexter I'm trying to make a specific point, and I don't think people saying stuff like "it's morally wrong" have really thought through why they think it is so. So it comes across as me trying to find an issue, because it's something you've not considered thoroughly.
"No matter how much you try to justify it, actively pirating a game for your personal enjoyment and you don't plan to compensate the publisher/developer for the game is **wrong.**"
Like this. It implies that the moral wrong is compensation for the work, but then I gave you an extreme example of how a legally and generally accepted practice is considered morally ok. Depsite the fact that the dev does not get compensated for that transaction. You even had to explain it away as must have taken place illegally.
It's logically inconsistent.
As far as the dev and the customer is concerned, there is no difference between a second hand customer or a pirate, or whether they play that game on launch day or ten years down the line. In all cases the dev never got compenstated. So the dev getting compenstated isn't the line drawn to determine what's morally ok.
Re: New Denuvo 'Switch Emulator Protection' Tech Launches, And Players Are Worried
@Wexter I've not misread. I'm trying to understand why this;
"my beef (and the beef a lot of people have) is people who pirate Switch games without the intention of paying the publisher and develop for their hard work."
upsets people. Because it shouldn't. How much is ok to pay?. Say I bought a game, second hand, for 1p. Is that ok? The dev never saw that money, it didn't help them in any way.
Re: New Denuvo 'Switch Emulator Protection' Tech Launches, And Players Are Worried
@ThePizzaCheese "It's unjust because one person got something for free that others had to work for."
So if you all got it for free then it would be just, no?
"And I already pointed out that DRM just hurts legal players. Please read some of the previous comments before posting."
I'm trying to point out that if, what you've already conceeded, DRM doesn't stop piracy, and that if piracy doesn't equate to lost sales, that the existence of anti-piracy software only hurts the legally doing it. Thus, any piracy done isn't actually affecting the normal trading/relationship between customer and business. If a pirate isn't affecting that, then there can be no harm. If there's no harm, there's no moral wrong happening.
You even said that companies only do it for investors.
Ultimately, anyone upset about pirates getting stuff for free when they can't demonstrate harm but calling it morally wrong, just sound jealous. It's odd.
I was leading you to water and you were p*ssing in it and complaining about the taste.
Re: New Denuvo 'Switch Emulator Protection' Tech Launches, And Players Are Worried
@ThePizzaCheese "It's morally wrong because it's unjust"
That's circular logic. How is it unjust?
"Plus he already said he's fine if people emulate games they pay for"
Right, but if Pirates aren't ever going to buy games, then the only people you punish by including anti-piracy methods are?
Re: New Denuvo 'Switch Emulator Protection' Tech Launches, And Players Are Worried
@Wexter Right, but if the customer got the game they wanted, and got to give the company their £50, and the company got that £50, and the company made their maximum profit for said product, then there is no damage to any party, and if no damage occured, then there is no morally wrong doing.
What if there was a paying customer, who paid Nintendo their money, and wanted to emulate the game they paid for? Is that morally wrong?
Re: New Denuvo 'Switch Emulator Protection' Tech Launches, And Players Are Worried
@Arawn93 "When new games like Metroid Dread, XB3, etc get pirated day 1 emulation people lost their moral highground argument.
Let’s be real: They just didn’t want to spend money and want free videogames and throw out the lazy excuse of “it won’t impact their sales guys, enough people are picking up the slack” as if that entitles them free games"
Metroid Dread was the best selling Metroid game ever.
Piracy didn't affect the sales.
Pirates just wouldn't have ever bought the game.
Companies spend more money stopping people from playing than they are losing from what they think are potential sales. Being upset about people playing a game for free than being upset about money lost is idiotic.
Re: Random: Bob Hoskins Didn't Know Super Mario Bros. Movie Was Based On A Game
@Rambler This is millenials not even wanting to put in basic research.
Re: Random: Bob Hoskins Didn't Know Super Mario Bros. Movie Was Based On A Game
@Mioaionios He should have googled it at least..
Re: New Report Alleges Sexual Harassment And Discrimination At Nintendo Of America
@KillerBOB "A bunch of nerd guys working at Nintendo sending offensive (to some) memes"
Don't send sexually explicit content to people you don't know that well.
"traditionally dominated by socially awkward"
Yeah, that's on the social awkward person to learn how to interact with others, and not others to accept the missteps of the socially awkward. Like, not sending sexually explicit content to people you don't really know.
Re: Reggie: Nintendo Was Working On A Device Like Xbox's Adaptive Controller
"Imagine an adaptive controller that you could play with your latest Xbox, PlayStation, or Nintendo platform. That's what we were working on"
I'd call BS on that one. Nintendo is the most closed off, and archaic platform. I couldn't even imagine them R&D'ing something like this, let alone ever releasing it.
Re: Nintendo Launches Huge Switch eShop Multiplayer Sale With Up To 80% Off (North America)
@Sonos "Some, like Ubisoft, Capcom and indies - have sales frequently and deeply. They generate high sales but they condition the end consumer to wait."
AC Valhalla sold faster than previous AC games, and has made the most amount of money of any AC game. RE8 sold like 5 million copies in the first five months, and it didn't have any sales until six months in. The Witcher 3 GOTY has been on sale for around £8, yet Cyberpunk was preordered around 8 million times.
Game sales don't hurt the value of games. They certainly don't hurt the ability of these games to make good returns on investment, which is the real purpose of businesses. Those that are super excited for a game will still pay full price to experience these games sooner. Sales just help widen your audience. Refusing to offer proper sales like Nintendo and Apple just gatekeeps low earners out of the experiences and gives their fanbase a "better than you" attitude.
Re: Feature: 'Ex-Zodiac' Is The Star Fox Throwback You Wish Nintendo Would Make
"£20,000 kickstarter goal"
Imagine all the retro/budget Star Fox and F-Zeros that Nintendo could make.
Re: Soapbox: 20 Years Later, Super Mario Sunshine Is Still The Best 3D Mario
"2002 was undoubtedly a fantastic year for Nintendo gamers, with the one-two punch of Metroid Prime and Metroid Fusion, the incredibly unique survival horror Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem, and a remake of the iconic Resident Evil all playing their part to make it a year to remember"
And out of all these games, only the non-Nintendo title can be bought on the eShop.
Re: Round Up: Here's What Critics And Fans Think Of The Resident Evil Netflix Series
The Anderson RE films showed them that RE audiences will watch anything. What do you expect?
Re: Nintendo Formally Acknowledges Same-Sex Marriage, Despite Japanese Law
@Dezzy70 Yeah, I couldn't say whether or not religion caused it, but religion has been used to enforce it. And we can see over in the US how religion can send you in to a backside too. Which is why I was keen on reminding us how recent this acceptance is, because of how easy it is to forget and lose it.
It's especially easy for straight guys like us, because we don't live it. I'm a white, straight, nearly 40 guy, who has no long term disabilities (I had depression through my teens and most of my 20s, and I may be neuro divergent, but I'm not sure I want to go through the process to find out for sure), so none of this has ever affected me directly, it's just been a lot of research in to how others have experienced life, and how society treat them. It's been horrifying in some cases, but not going to lie, it's been really interesting and fun too.
I remember being iffy on trans people. Don't know why, there was just this part of me that felt uncomfortable with it all. But I also knew that being like that to trans people didn't fit with my general philosophy. So I went out to learn more. I was really coming round to it the more I learnt, and then Abigail Thorn's coming out video really made my mind up. Even though I'm not trans, I could really relate to her trying to live up to this random idea of manhood, that others had created, rather than just being who she is. I knew what she was talking about because I've experienced all that growing up. I remember those worries being a big part of my depression. It was nice to connect to her struggles.
Jesus, sorry for the essay.
Re: Nintendo Formally Acknowledges Same-Sex Marriage, Despite Japanese Law
@Dezzy70 "Same-sex marriage was legalised in England and Wales, and Scotland in 2014,[6] and in Northern Ireland in 2020."
We should be careful about acting as if the UK has been safe and equally respectful for same-sex marriage and the LGBT community.
Those rights have been hard fought for and some of these have only been recently won. And they've only been won by making themselves a "special group" that gets a large amount of attention for their size. Because when they were separate and isolated, they were ostracised, treated poorly, and given less rights.
Re: Portal Modders Have Already Got Half-Life 2 Running On Switch
Imagine "devaluing your brand" by releasing two critically acclaimed and beloved games for £13.50.
Absolutely crazy.
Re: Video: Capcom, Please Put Dragon's Dogma 2 On Switch
It wont come to Switch. Unfortunately.
Looking at how Capcom operates, it will be a 9th gen exclusive.
Re: Rumour: Metroid Prime Remaster Apparently Lined Up For November, Prime 2 And 3 To Follow
I really like the idea of all three games coming out with updated controls. I was enjoying the Wii versions but the Wiimote really limited my ability to enjoy and finish it.
I really do not like the idea that Nintendo will be charging separately for each title. Here's hoping they have looked at the Crysis remasters for pricing. £20-£25 for each title or £45-50 for all, sounds very reasonable, but knowing Nintendo, this will be at least £40 for each title, and no discount bundle.
And please Nintendolife, don't go simping and defending their pricing if it is revealed to be over priced. That Nintendo bias from fans is exactly why Nintendo continues to do that kind of BS.
Re: Random: Retro Studios Clashed With Metroid Producer On Halo Influences
We use examples to help convey an idea. Using a game as an example is no different from using a genre or design pillar.
"I want this Zelda game to have more freedom to explore"
"I want an open world Zelda game"
"It's Zelda meets GTA"
It's all the same idea, just conveyed in different ways. This is just Nintendo being overly closed off and blinkered.
Re: Memory Pak: After 20 Years, Eternal Darkness Really Deserves A Second Life
Nintendo do not deserve it.
Re: Developer Says Nintendo Turned Down Upcoming Wii U Horror Game For Being "Too Scary"
Glad no one ever got hurt using a Wiimote...
Re: Reggie: Nintendo's Transition From Switch Will Be A "Significant Challenge"
Motion controls were gimmicky and, ironically, limiting, and currently, the biggest appeal there is in VR. Which is covered by PS and PC.
High end hardware is well and truly taken care of with Xbox, PS, and PC.
And as much as I like low end hardware, unless it has a high end option, it doesn't have much use on its own. low end home consoles are really covered by MS at this point.
The biggest uncontested, largest appeal, market is mobile, and Nintendo has always been dominant there. The Switch's hybrid design is the appeal. It is the reason the console has done so well. It covers both the mobile market and the home market, but also has extra appeal because it is both in one.
With all the things wrong with Nintendo's platform I would have given it up by now if it weren't Hybrid. Keep it Hybrid, and keep the appeal. Leave the design and I'll probably leave for systems that do it better.
Re: Somehow, 'Prison Life Simulator 2022: World FIGHT Battle GTA ULTIMATE' Is An Actual Game On Switch
Nintendo seal of quality approved.
It is giving me massive Saint's Row 2 vibes, though.
Re: Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund Acquires $1 Billion Stake In Embracer Group
@nessisonett It's almost as if the abuse of human beings is a profitable enterprise.
Re: Nintendo Admits It Released A New Model Of The Switch To Fight Piracy
@nimnio "That's true, but ten hours playing a pirated game is very likely ten hours not playing paid games.
Most people are busy and have only so many hours for gaming. If all your limited gaming time can be filled playing free, pirated games, there is not much motivation to buy them."
In a world of F2P and heavily discounted video games, people who don't want to give Nintendo £60 for a game, aren't going to be giving them £60 just because they can no longer pirate games.
The more likely scenario is they buy something else.
Re: GoldenEye 007's Return Could Be Close
@Serpenterror "It would make sense if this is just a remastered of the 2010 version since that one is done by Activision and now Microsoft own Activision."
The achievement art and descriptions are clearly showing that this is the N64 title and not the 2010 remake (and it was a remake. technically a reimagining, definitely not a remaster).
Besides, No-one asks for the 2010 version. Half the comments seem to not know that game exists. It's always the N64 version people ask for. If they bait and switched for the 2010 Goldeneye, people would riot.
Re: GoldenEye 007's Return Could Be Close
@UltimateOtaku91 You just watched a landmark and much loved piece of media from 1997 and complained about the graphics.
"they have real faces just stuck onto the enemies lol"
You mean like how they scan real faces on to character models today?. It was actually advanced stuff compared to what some games were doing that year.
@Chibi_Manny They did remake it. It was terrible and sold poorly.
Re: Horror Game 'MADiSON' Shines In First Switch Gameplay Trailer
Another generic haunted house jump scare simulator.
There's probably so much that could be done with this genre, but they'd rather just pump out the most derivative versions possible.
Re: Soapbox: Free Game Updates Are Fantastic For Everyone, Except New Players
This is why I see GAAS as a failed model.
Oh yeah, it's great right now if you pick a game before it launches and play every day for five years straight, but once you drop off, you can't really get back in to it. You have to make that game, your only game.
And what happens in 10 years time?, that game is dead. From a publisher point of view, from a preservation point of view, there's no bringing it back. There's no remaster, or next gen port, or reliving the old days, or new players finding and experiencing the joys of these titles. They are going to live as archived footage and not much else.
Re: Nintendo Files Patent To Combat Online Cheating And Software Modification
@steventonysmith Probably because Coca Cola and Pepsi both spend big money on advertising. If one stopped, the other would eventually start to become the defacto "coke" brand, and it would affect sales. You think the marketing team is there like "we need to spend $4bn in advertising, but we don't know why"?.
@JaxonH Well that assumes that I think pirating is inherently bad. There's 117k in the Switch Hacks Reddit, that's more than 99.9k pirates. So I think assuming that pirating is the majority case use would be incorrect.
But again, out of those how do you tell how many are ruining online experiences, and how many are just having fun with the device and software that they legally own?
Re: Nintendo Files Patent To Combat Online Cheating And Software Modification
@steventonysmith You're claim was that the bad modders heavily outnumber the good ones. You provided an article showing one guy. You have zero evidence, so just say "No".
"Nintendo's IPs need zero promotion"
You are clearly delusional. Nintendo has ads, on TV, and youtube, and social media. They spent over $700m in advertising in 2021.
Re: Nintendo Files Patent To Combat Online Cheating And Software Modification
@steventonysmith Again, citation needed, unless you are referring to the influencers who get sent early copies because it helps promote and advertise the game.
Re: Nintendo Files Patent To Combat Online Cheating And Software Modification
@Zyph "there are more modders with the goal of cheating and pirating than modders that actually just want to enjoy homebrew"
@steventonysmith "for every innocent user who is using mods to play harmless homebrew games there are thousands who are using a modded switch to play free Switch games"
Do you guys have a source for this information?
Re: Hogwarts Legacy Shares New Location Footage In 20-Minute ASMR Video
@jrt87 Yeah exactly. My video games have always been apolitical in both the themes and how they were made. It's terrible I have to hear about the political stuff now. I just want things to non-politically stay the same so, I can carry on enjoying them.
You enjoy your day too, man.
Re: Hogwarts Legacy Shares New Location Footage In 20-Minute ASMR Video
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Re: NFT Project Claiming To Feature Artwork From Mega Man Artist & Mighty No. 9 Creator Keiji Inafune Shut Down
It's heart warming that out of 40 comments there's only one NFT-bro.
At least everybody else has learned their lesson about NFTs.
Re: Legend Of Zelda Fans Accuse Indie Game Of "Ripping-Off" Link's Awakening
Don't care. You shouldn't be able to copyright art or mechanics. The day we start allowing that is day that creativity and art dies.
And we're talking about one of the few companies that has copyrighted a gameplay mechanic to prevent others from using it. So let's not embolden them to try and control more.
Re: Konami Is Reportedly Working On Three Silent Hill Projects
@GrailUK Nah, Nintendo won't pay for Silent Hill. They paid for Fatal Frame and barely cared for it.
Re: Konami Is Reportedly Working On Three Silent Hill Projects
@GrailUK I'm guessing the only reason Konami is bothering is because some one else is footing the bill.
Re: PSA: Rocket League's New Cross-Platform Voice Chat Is Enabled By Default
Default on is best. You have nothing to fear from these people.
1) If you are putting the headset on, you are opening yourself to communication. That's how headsets are designed to work. It would be like opening your front door and being surprised by people being outside.
2) If you do hear someone, and you don't want to, mute it and move on. Just shut the door.
On a personal belief. Part of the toxicity in game chat is that the only people who chat are toxic. And anyone new to chat comes on and hears people being toxic, and either become toxic themselves or leave chat. And that's a shame because then people miss out on opportunity to socialise, build team work skills, and share advice like any strong community does.
The non-toxic voices need to start drowning out the toxic ones and that doesn't happen with default off.