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@nocdaes could just be that they want to delay the physical until it's patched to a decent level and Switch is taking longer than the others - The latest patch is taking longer to get to Switch after all.

@SwitchForce I'm not really sure what you're implying with this comment. My family (not just my wife) was obviously a big consideration when retraining as I'd be out at classes in the evenings and studying most weekends for a number of years.

If it had been just the two of us then I'd have done it years ago.

@SwitchForce Yes, people retrain all the time - I did myself - but it takes time to do, especially if you already have a job, family etc. Try applying for a job with no relevant qualifications and/or experience and telling your prospective employer you'll just train on the job and see how far that gets you.

@SwitchForce Whether women or anyone else were discouraged from going into those types of roles in the first place is not the point - you can't suddenly make up for that by saying "hire more" if they literally can't do the job. By all means change the attitude of schools and educators for the kids that are coming through the system now, but unless you're planning on retraining people for roles they didn't want, then there's not much you can do about the current shortfall in female talent in some sectors.

@TanukiTrooper That depends on the role though - if there are way more male candidates than female, then statistically you're more likely to hire a male anyway.

You can't simple just say you want a 50:50 split or to hire more <whatever> as the talent pool just isn't there for many roles.
Obviously only from my own experience, but when I was doing my degree (Engineering) there were 3 females in a class around 30 and based on what I've seen in the workforce, that wasn't an anomaly. I doubt the university was turning away female applicants because they were female.

I work for a small company - only 10 technical staff - and they are all white males. We may not have a "diverse" workforce in the sense of the article, but between us we have a diverse range of skills and personalities - it's not as if white males are all carbon copies of each other. The last time we recruited for an engineer there was a single female applicant. She didn't get the job - not because she was female, but because she didn't have as much experience as the guy that did get the job.

@MajorTom It only got added last week and is called San Andreas - The Definitive Edition so it seems to be the same version. I still don't think there are too many people buying games that they know have issues, they'll mostly be pre-orders or people that aren't aware of the issues yet - not everyone is checking out reviews before they buy stuff. Also metacritic is hardly an accurate representation of how good or bad a game is really - "the internet" are a fickle bunch and it's just too easy for someone to rate something 0/10 for any reason.

@MajorTom Yes, but my point was that the majority of Cyberpunk 2077 sales were from before people realised how bad it was, rather than people buying it despite it being terrible. From what I've seen of GTA it's nowhere near Cyberpunk levels of bad - folk on the forums here actually say it's pretty decent. Haven't played it myself yet, but San Andreas is on Game Pass I think so might check it out. I agree though, that if folk are buying stuff they know is a buggy mess than its pretty dumb. That's the chance you take when you preorder these days it seems.

@MajorTom To be fair, a fair chunk of Cyberpunks' sales were pre-orders. I doubt it sold that well after release given it was removed from PSN and loads of folk were demanding refunds.

For those in the UK waiting for a sale on NEO: TWEWY, ShopTo just reduced it to £28

@WallyWest Its funny how your response about not being a fanboy makes you sound even more like a fanboy. First there were no games apart from Halo & Forza (even though you also mentioned Flight Sim) which is clearly not true. Now they "couldn't even be bothered" to have any launch games all while Sony is all rainbows and unicorns. Sure

Some very odd nominations in each of the best game categories - all the winners of best game on respective platforms (except Switch) were multi-platform, but none of them even nominated on other platforms.

@WallyWest Careful, your fanboy is showing 😉 Neither Xbox or Sony has been pumping out that many real top-tier exclusives this year really - likely as a result of Covid, but in terms of actual numbers they are probably pretty similar. Next year looks like its going to be pretty full of exclusives from both consoles - and Nintendo too for that matter - it could be a very expensive year. Of course, it's all just a matter of opinion which has the better games - you have fanboys on all sides saying Xbox has no games, Nintendo is for kids, PlayStation only know how to do 3rd person action adventures etc, but as long as you're enjoying what you play who cares what the "other side" is doing?

@WallyWest You could replace Halo & Forza in that statement with any of the big games from PS or Nintendo and the same would also be true though.

Given MK11 is officially done it's not going to happen. Might be an option for Multiversus or MK12 though.

@Anti-Matter XBox Series Consoles are are doing much better than Xbox One did in Japan - I'm sure I read somewhere that they are likely to out-sell XB One lifetime sales by the end of this year. Likely still stock issues with PS consoles in the region too which would explain the lower than expected numbers.

@Oddball83 I don't particularly care if you're playing All Stars on your laptop either, but that's not really the point is it?

When they are talking about game preservation it's not about the likes of Sonic or Mario games that are already available just about everywhere and they want you to buy for the tenth time - it's about those games that didn't sell millions and are in many cases died with the platform they were released on. It would be great to go back and buy something that I might've missed because I either didn't have that particular system, it was just a game I wasn't aware of, or even just that my taste has changed over the years. At the moment you can't really do that unless they happen to release in a retro collection or stuff like the Arcade Archives games, but the selection on those is limited. The only other option is to either track down the original game and the hardware which can be very expensive, or emulate on PC etc.

I don't really get the argument that because something is old you shouldn't have to pay for it though - there would obviously be some cost involved with getting old games onto newer systems - developing the emulators, testing, licencing etc so expecting to get them for nothing is ridiculous.

Paying again for something you have already bought is different though, and I think Nintendo are the worst in that regard - way back to their early consoles/handhelds they've ported older games onto newer systems and it's been particularly bad with WiiU to Switch in that pretty much every decent 1st party game has got a port. There's no reason my virtual console purchases from Wii, 3DS etc shouldn't be available across all my Nintendo devices - they can clearly do 8bit/16bit console emulation just fine on Switch. Maybe a bit trickier with digital Wii/WiiU/3DS purchases due to the Switch having a different architecture, but for older games at least there should be no issue.

@Oddball83 The individuals that worked on these games don't see a dime from your ROM collections either so not really sure what your point is here. At least if these old games are sold officially the creators (or publishers at least) will get something.

I doubt the likes of Xbox or any other storefront see massive profits in this - I mean, Nintendo wouldn't have dumped the Virtual Console if it was making them piles of cash would they?

@Mr_Fox Well it's obviously not that easy given some of the opinions about the (lack of) quality in the N64 emulation. Also licencing these old games can be a bit of a nightmare too. I think people forget that it's not just a case of dumping a load of old ROMs on the service and it just works, especially when it's a paid service - folk are going to be a lot less forgiving than they would be compared to something like a Pi or hacked mini-console with ROMs obtained from some shady website.

@Chocobo_Shepherd But she didn't ask that question unprompted - it was off the back of already being branded a "white male hater" by some just because they took a quote out if context and tried to turn it into something it wasn't and then it snowballs from there and suddenly everything she says is somehow proof that she's some man-hating bigot. It's such a ridiculous thing to be accused of that it deserved the trolling response. At the time of the comments white male privilege was a hot topic, especially around Hollywood and I guess as a successful young female actor she felt like she needed to speak out against it. I'm not sure exactly why she felt the need to speak out about A Wrinkle in Time specifically - as far as I can tell she had nothing to do with the movie so seems like nothing more than virtue signalling. As for equality, I'm sure the same comments coming from one of the black female cast members or the director wouldn't have had them branded as bigots and they'd be praised for championing diversity.
Funny you should mention Chris Pratt - wasn't there some corner of the internet trying to cancel him due to a church he was involved with that was supposedly anti LGBT?

@Chocobo_Shepherd I haven't seen it, but was she even in the movie? A bit pointless trying to distract from poor reviews if it's not even one of hers. If you genuinely think she hates white guys then I really don't know what to say. People on the internet are indeed dumb 🤦‍♂️

@Chocobo_Shepherd Almost sounds like she was deliberately trolling the very people that were claiming she hated them - it's obviously working.
A dodge ploy for what exactly?

@ryancraddock Their quote says "in the Americas". Implies that in every other region it's not being delisted - is that the case?

@Chocobo_Shepherd The whole Wrinkle in Time thing was a rather heavy-handed dig at the lack of diversity within movie journalism/reviewing after it's less-than-great reviews. Not quoting word-for-word, but she said she wanted to know what women of colour thought about it rather that some 40 year old white dude as it wasn't really made for him. The internet read "it wasn't made for 40yo white dude" and translated it to "she hates white men".

@SwitchForce you could argue that the Switch saw a massive boost in sales last year due to the various lockdowns going on around the world, so I don't think the total number would've been that different without Covid. The smaller sales this year due to shortages likely just cancel out the extra sales generated last year while everyone was stuck at home playing

That software sales figure seems off - average of approx. 7 games per Switch seems really low. Would be interesting to see a breakdown of those figures. I've probably bought that in the last few weeks, never mind the lifetime of my Switch.

I realise I'm probably not the average buyer - and likely most on here aren't either - but that means there must be some that are only buying maybe 1 or 2 games. I guess the % buying loads of games is likely small enough that it doesn't skew the average too much maybe?

@Daniel36 I had to look up Big Room - never heard of it. Seems I didn't miss much.

Sounds like he only started collecting during the pandemic, so he's essentially flipping some Pokémon merch to claw back some of the cash he lost while not performing, or am I missing something?

Also, I've never heard of him - does that make me old? 😂

@BloodNinja I don't recall reading that they proved the costs, just that the Bowser fellow didn't dispute them - there's a big difference. I don't doubt they try to estimate them, but my point is there's no (accurate) way to do that.
They'd probably try to argue that for each device sold the user would download X amount of ROMs on average thus losses = Devices Sold * X * $50. The notion that each ROM downloaded is a lost sale is nonsense though, especially for legacy systems where you can't actually buy the games anymore.

I wonder how they calculated/estimated the loses? I guess it would be very difficult to put an exact figure on it as they've literally no idea what users are doing with these after they've bought them.

From the linked plea agreement is seems he only made around $320,000 in the years he was doing it and that included advertising income from the website. Doesn't really seem worth it when you get slapped with $4.5m in damages.

@Flashlink99 I think they get a pass for NBA - isn't that full game over 32GB? They'd need a download even with the biggest cart so makes sense to use the cheaper one.

The people that actually care about this (or care enough to not buy the game at all) is probably a tiny minority anyway so I doubt they'll change if it's worked for them in the past.

Has it actually been confirmed that GTA is not on the cart? I've read a lot of "apparently" and "seems like" on various sites based on the box art, but wasn't there another game recently where the leaked box art showed a download required, but when it actually came out it was all on the cart?

Wow, Head over Heals. I had that on C64 and TBH not a game I'd ever had though anyone would have the urge to remake. Might try it just for nostalgias sake

@Aya-chan Well, the movie and music industries are always re-releasing anniversary/special editions of older stuff, and you have to buy it again if you want it on a newer format too, so no difference there really. They are companies trying to maximise profits after all - if you don't like it don't buy them.

The abuse accusations are not relevant to whether the customer base is being ripped off and it's by no means exclusive to the gaming industry - see Harvey Weinstein etc.

I'm not blindly believing what they say, but the default of many seems to be that every time a publisher says something they're lying. In this case there's no benefit to Capcom coming out and saying they can't do it - they'd actually be better of just saying nothing or giving some vague response about trying to add it later. I suspect they're going to lose a fair chunk of sales because of it.

You do realise playing other games with cross save doesn't necessarily mean that all games can do it?

@Aya-chan Taken for a ride in what way?
And you've kinda just proved my point - unless you actually worked on this game you have no idea if it's possible or not. You're just throwing around baseless accusations.

I really need to stop reading the comments on this site. Seems like almost every article there's some armchair 'expert' calling out publishers for lying or being lazy or greedy.
They've made a statement that they can't do it - why not take that at face value?
I mean, if they were really trying to be greedy then surely they'd just say nothing in the hope people would buy the PC version assuming there'd be cross play/saves - or at least hoping it would be added later. If anything, not adding it is likely to lose them sales if people are not going to double-dip.

My son bought it, so I'll play it once he's done. I do like a two-Switch household - 2x as many games, but I only have to pay for half of them

@Jeronan Only Kingdom Hearts III on Game Pass at the moment. The others left earlier this year think.

UK PS5 and Xbox Series prices don't look right to me. Sure it's a genuine mistake on a Nintendo site 😉

Played Sensible World of Soccer to death on Amiga back in the day - Conquered Europe with lowly Livingstone in career mode if I remember correctly - with Zinedine Zidane bossing the midfield. Also still available on Xbox store for those that have access to it.

This game doesn't remind remind me of Sensible Soccer at all though - the camera angle on part that trailer actually remind me more of early FIFA games with the isometric view.

@Specter_of-the_OLED Or, more likely that stores got a batch of stock and folk wanted something to play along with their new console.

@Specter_of-the_OLED Ratchet & Clank is PS5 exclusive and the linked article states that 91% of GoT sales were PS5.

@KateGray How much progress did the glitch cause you to lose? Sounds pretty significant if you didn't continue, or did it happen all the time so you couldn't continue?

@BloodNinja Cool, I'll check it out. I was going to built my own arcade stick a while back, but never got around to it. Suppose i could always just mod a regular one.

@BloodNinja I occasionally use the keys on PC when using a mouse and keyboard but, being a lefty I use mouse with left hand and arrows with the right. I think this setup would take me a while to get used to.

@BloodNinja Never seen those before. Great idea, even for those that don't need them for accessablity. Does it take a bit of getting used to using the keys instead of a stick?

@Stocksy What makes it worse in this case is that the controller is pretty basic electronics - just a regular controller with additional switch inputs. I get that it's not a mainstream product so economies of scale don't really apply, but it's still pretty shocking that the base unit cost nearly 3x as much as a set of Joycons.

@BloodNinja I'm pretty sure the Microsoft Adaptive controller is around £150 (at least it was last time I looked) and it's the same - have to get all the accessories separately. Prefer the design of the MS one too - it looks a lot more stable than the Hori model and has a couple of oversized buttons as part of the unit.

@Stocksy I have to disagree about the price. It's £175+ for the base unit only. Those joysticks in the video thumbnail? £210 each and those big buttons are £30 each too. Hardly affordable

I've got 2 disabled kids and in my experience having the world 'accessible' in the description usually means adding an extra zero or 2 to the cost.

At first I though they'd put the Switch internals in the shell which would've been pretty cool.
Seems a bit awkward as it is having to open the case and put the Switch inside to dock - would've made more sense (and have been easier to build) to have the N64 shell with the Switch docking like a cart at the top. Nice touch with the 4xUSBs though.