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I wonder, does the mouse mode work for Galaxy now?

"I can't choose either" would probably be enough to say "I don't want digital"

Physical forever

@Willo567 in all fairness, this game is not rendering as many things as Knack. So I feel like those frame dips this game is going to experience needs to be ironed out

@WiltonRoots As time went by people worked out better ways to write their games. Strange that.

Hardware homogenized in the past 15 years down to just AMD and Nvidia, for example. The expectation is that if you can program for RTX, you should be able to have some coding knowhow to program what's on the Switch/Switch 2, since it also runs on Nvidia. Especially when the console has the horse power of a PS4 pro.

This isn't like the SNES era where hardware was scattershot

Yeah, that F-Zero one and SoulCalibur thing might be a deal breaker in the long term. One is a racing game that requires heavy reflexes to survive, the other is not even tournament legal because of it's frame delay issues

Personally, I'm not really buying the excuse. Is it too much to ask to optimize your game AND be fun?

This is your hardware, Nintendo. You should know the ins and outs of it

@Solid_Python except I haven't heard any reports, and I have NDS cards that are 20 years old now that still work. I don't know how those people are handling their cards to make them fail.

Digital isn't preservation in this current landscape. You can, and will. have games or digital goods you bought taken from you my hand. Those who lost their stuff during the Crunchyroll merger know that all too well. And Nintendo is no different.

@Solid_Python Yeah, on switch cards, everything is done via a flash storage so they should last 100 times longer than an Atari cartridges running on batteries. imagine that, especially the longevity of Atari carts alone!

Can you actually jump into the tech world before saying stuff like this? the only way these cards are breaking is if you deliberately damage them. other than that, they have the data resilience of a CD in a dry environment, which is to say they can last for 1000 years if handled properly.

Meanwhile online services have financial incentives to pull the plug.

@Solid_Python Tell that to atari games, many of which still work 50 years later

Meanwhile, how are your Satellaview games doing?

@Solid_Python the plastic holds metals and silicon that actually hold the data of thing you bought that can't be taken away from you.

Crazy, right?

@RasandeRose Oh, so you must be really be into gambling companies then. Good to know, monopoly man.

Meanwhile those who pirate from poverty have no incentive to profit off what they obtain unlike shoplifters. They just wanna play a game they cannot reasonably obtain. Not everything revolves around your US problems

Also "pays their taxes" 🤣 Many big companies try AVOIDING methods of paying taxes. Nintendo included. Reality check, man!

@WiltonRoots Yeah, I wonder why. Must be the drugs and alcohol being the point of attention instead of video games!

I also lived in Pakistan for a whole year, so I know how rough it is there too. Imagine going days without electricity! I've even heard stories of no electricity for weeks while the government keeps increasing taxes nonsensically.
If you wanna be a teacher's pet to a corporation and treat them like a living being, be my guest. I'm not for piracy myself, but I'm gonna think twice about people's living situations encouraging certain habits online before casting judgment. If it can help them escape and stay sane without going to the extreme end, that's more important.

@RasandeRose yeah, because everything is online these days. Not having a computer or cheap phone is the equivalent of death in this society.

Is that monopoly hat worn unironically?

@RasandeRose I have family who lives in Pakistan. They are a poor AF country who doesn't get the media in the same easy way we do. Piracy is the only way to keep some flow of culture coming in and out regularly, especially gaming culture. You're trying to be a smart arse about "kids in africa", not knowing who you're talking to.

@WiltonRoots
"you have a roof over your head, clothes on your back and food on your table and you need nothing else" is what you're telling me. That's not living, that's barely surviving, and your telling people to have no sense of escapism... Good luck with anybody listening to that

@WiltonRoots
I can make that same argument in reverse, man. If that's all people have while having absolutely nothing else, what do you expect people to do? Not watch movies or play games?

also, @RasandeRose

@Deerock69 except I'm pretty sure you're still reading a lot anyways since not everything is voiced. lol

@RasandeRose I said robin hood for a reason. If someone really is that much of a cheapskake, then that's on them. But with bull currently happening in the industry, along with youth and impoverish who can't afford to buy stuff, that's only creating legitimacy for the behavior

@Max_the_German what you just said is precisely why the mantra is practiced

Don't do crappy business practices, and the robin hoods will behave.

@ShieldHero You could also use a mig dumper if you wanna mod. you can even play your legit copies on PC too, straight off the card, if you have the right setup if you're worried about legalities. Contemplating buying that too for games that don't get upgrades on switch 2, so to make them run better after mods

just don't share your roms online

@Max_the_German How about this in the switch 2 era?

"If buying isn't owning, Piracy isn't stealing"
Cuz keycards suck

That nsw2 part may have alerted Nintendo....

@HeadPirate eh, more like slight revamps than remasters, at least that's how I call your Ultra Street Fighter 4's and Personal 4 Goldens. Same engine, same assets, just new stuff added to a full re-release

@FishyS 30 bucks a game is not too bad I guess, especially when they're not that old

@Exerion76 what are ya talkin about? that's nothing new for Japanese action games in the past 20 years

Behold, the grand battle between kyonyuu and hinnyuu!!!!

Anyways, I can tell Sonic fans are already gonna love this game

@Liam_Doolan watch Asia get the full edition on card :3

There was one thing that was promised, but not tested.....

Can the switch 2 version of the game card work on the switch 1??!?!?!?!

I wanna see a video of that in action!!!

@TwinFami Blech. YOU are tired of them. Other people are not. If you are gonna be in an echo chamber of "gamers only want single player". then you are gonna be no different from the execs who say "gamers only want live service games".

This whole initiative is to allow live service games to end with secondary options of support so you can keep playing (albeit at level 1), not to end the concept of a live service game. Because quite frankly, I can't see a game like Mecha Break surviving without multiple people online playing

@Zuljaras Don't diss Hi-fi rush!

with StopKillingGames quickly approaching the target, good luck with that Nintendo

@jaughndis I have far more experience in the world of doujinshi and pixiv than you think, buddy

@SuntannedDuck2 basically, modern raytracing is just raw light simulation. it's suppose to carry the subtleties actual light does. granted, it doesn't always look great when done retroactively and can disrupt games with established art styles

@sethfranum take it or leave it. Japan's gaming journalism is closer to how people remember it in the 90s and early 2000s. If you wanna know something deeper or get a bit of a bite, you gotta go to an alternative trusted source like the horse's mouth (developers). they are the "senseis" of the industry after all.

@sethfranum The guy in the video I gave you is a Japanese dev who worked for the likes of Gung-ho and Black Lilith with several ties in the JP side of the industry?

I already gave ya a link, man.

@SpontaneousOutburst
"AI can come up with completely new designs on its own and usually way more creative (even when it misunderstands the prompts, resulting in some wild things a human would never dream up) ways than most humans now."
It fundamentally cannot. Don't take my word for it. The tech bros programing this crap say it themselves when law catches up to their copyright shenanigans. The "designs" you see are fundamentally scrapped from other artists who didn't consent, with someone elses art being put through what could be lazily described as a snapchat filter

" I mean has their been a Final Fantasy character in the last like 8 games that didn't have a ton of extra belts for example?"
1, yes there has, for awhile now
and
2, that's called a creative bias in a individual. "I like something or thinking unconsciously about a fond memory, therefor I will add it". Since when was a person having a distinctive design language a bad thing? More often than not, that's just the creator's personality coming out. meanwhile GenAI has no personality of its own to speak of.

"Prompting for full character sheets works better than sketches anyway."

Sure if ya have low standards and like seeing finer details melt into each other in really disturbing, unhuman ways. But otherwise, sketches are suppose to give a fundamental idea about what a character is suppose to be and feel like from mental conception before building on top of it. Skipping that process altogether will definitely make for a hollow, confused final product.

@SuntannedDuck2 Theoretically, raytracing can be used as a underrated mechanic in FPS games with lots of shiny environments.

I recall Doom Eternal adding it and reflective surfaces allow the raytracing to show what's behind you.

Gimme Sonic Riders with Online play and I'll be a happy camper. Maybe even Smash Melee while we're at it

@thedicemaster Nah, according to actual Japanese devs, Nintendo is known as a patent troll themselves. Lots of the big Japanese companies are in their own country. It's pretty depressing to hear.

This video might be focused on Sega and another company, but nintendo's habits do crop up as "being an issue", if memory serves me right.

@Daniel36 Realistic textures are also commonly made by hand by trying to give the impression something being more realistic than it actually is. You do know you're talking to someone who also gets inspired when he browses Pixiv, right? Even being in the gaming sphere should have given that one away too.
There's a line between theft and inspiration, man. I dunno why we're trying to argue why machines should get the same human rights when their data really is the definition of stolen, as large portions of art and copyrighted images can be found in the spat out image's meta data, and their conscious falls on their creator/programmer. If we're gonna look at that through a human only lens, that is blatantly theft, art redistributed without consent of the creator.

@ottoecamn The problem with saying "AI is the issue" is that it's unnuanced. I specifically mentioned GenAI. I'm not talking about procedural generation. I know of interpolation AI that is suppose to make animators spend less time with in-betweens, while keeping the process human at its core.
GenAI based in Midjourney and reeway doesn't do that.

@axelhander yeah, and then said artists make all of the same mistakes GenAI does instead of actually learning from practice in actual anatomy.
Long time artists already called this crap out

@Otimus Capitalism is why AI projects fail though. nobody is buying. I already outlined that earlier.

You should probably be more mad at corporatism. That's where the real issues you have with so called "capitalism" come from

@Daniel36 I mean, you could have probably made the texture yourself in less time than it takes to search. That's what most artists would do

@AverageGamer I was pulling from memory, man. Look up a documentary on Kojima's past if you're really curious

@JohnnyMind Sorry man. Give an inch, take a mile. GenAI is built off of theft. If plagiarism is taken seriously in the gaming industry then why isn't GenAI, which is built on the same principles? So don't be surprised if nobody wants to support it.

I'm not gonna do the devs a favor when they do something this stupid. If they get laid off, that was on them.

@cyrus_zuo that's a false equivalency. People said the same thing about Digital art, but that died down because digital still required the same skill set. So do synthesizers.
GenAI is purely fake though, and again, built off of theft. It's taking the process of commissioning a human to do it and replacing them with AI that has no human sense

@NolandC He was forced to watch Hollywood movies every night with his parents growing up and not doing so was seen as a sacrilegious act in his household, at least until tragedy struck and those movies were the only thing keeping him together.

As a result, he is very knowledgeable on movies and film culture, which is why his games feel like so many movies pre-millenium, east and west. He's even said himself that his body is made up of 80 percent movies, hence why Metal Gear and the like feel so cinematic no matter what you do.

So yeah, he's just doing the name on the poster thing hollywood movies are known for because he really loves movies that much

@martynstuff I'm detecting Corina Boettger bitterness in this

Nintendo developed PreCure game, when?

@NolandC Nah, he's just a movie nerd

@BobbleBubble You'd be suprised. Ai actually makes it harder for everyone to get a paycheck. Even the Ai bros don't get paid because people automatically see slop

Look, it's one thing to generate voices in a prototype. Text to speech has been a thing for years and nobody lost a job over that. (In fact with Blue Archive, it's even been used to immerse you further via your AI assistant loli since she says your real name, and this may reflect when the full korean dub is added to the main story so other characters do the same as well)

That said, GenAI for images and art assets is another thing. Visuals define a game. But when you hand that preproduction work to AI, you end up getting a creepy digital soup that's far less focused. i swear, I feel like my eye sockets are getting sexually violated when looking at GenAI, if not looking at a soulless husk that makes me think "hey, this looks like something someone typed into a prompt" only to see that, ya, it was....

He says it's not gonna be in the final product, but it's still an uncomfortable bedrock to set your foundation on.