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Re: Talking Point: Is A Nintendo Direct Really On The Way?

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I stopped playing on the Switch - Nintendo has fk'd royally this year. Nintendo share price is dropping and dropping, the investors are keen to observe that the Switch is an underperforming hardware suitable for Porting 10y old games "on the go" gimmick. Metroid Prime 4 will be the first out of many delays - expect only more ports this year.

Re: Review: Warriors Orochi 4 - A Boisterous But Samey Sequel That Won't Win Over Naysayers

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Do they even know that FE Warriors had like half the roster as clones? It's a good game I have 90 hours on but Orochi has around x4 the heroes and almost all of them are unique with animations and combos.

The game flow is also much better as you can equip 3 heroes and switch them. this game is a much much better version muso game then FE Warriors and they gave it 6... meh.

Of course if you never played these game beware, but if you played FE warriors or Hyrule Warriors and enjoy them it's a must.

Re: Assassin's Creed Odyssey Cloud Version Screens Released, Switch File Size Also Revealed

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People in comments don't understand networking. Streaming locally in your home from console to vita or Nvidia streaming is OK cause its has almost no lag. But streaming from a server farm 50ms away and hosting for scale and many many client is a different thing altogether.

when every mouse and keyboard input needs to translate back to remote server and rendered then back over the net as stream of images depending on resolutions and if you want 30fps - it means 30 rendered screens that need to be downloaded to your client every second! so good luck with this on game quality, fidelity and responsiveness.

Re: Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aimé On Why The Switch Uses A Mobile App For Voice Chat

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He contradicts himself as noted by many here.

Doing things differently is not reinventing the wheel. There is absolutely nothing innovative in making a bad service that nobody wants to use when you have a standard of communication that everybody uses.

Heck even the keyboard layout wasn't changed since inception due to the fact that people get used to doing same things and the actually more frequency based keyboard layout is better it's experience is bad.
Same with communication people are used to it as part of the console/PC not some other device and that's a fact.

Another issue with this horrible app, a lot of countries don't have it on their App Store so it's not a Global App as it should as the Nintendo de facto voice app. Can someone explain why is that?

Re: Talking Point: It's September And We Still Don't Know Enough About Nintendo Online

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No issue paying 19/year for online services, but how about actual service = backend dedicated servers not this peer 2 peer crap they call online network - their current network configuration was popular in 15 years ago. For example splatoon is region locked to your profile region and not your actual network latency, like WTF (and you can't change anything, move to another country, buy splatoon again)

tbh I don't think they can make an actual gaming network like Sony or Microsoft.

Re: Review: Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy (Switch)

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Never owned a PS or played crash. My personal impression after a few hours in, it's a very fine platformer - yes the first one is difficult, toke me 10 times to pass to the second world but it was fun. started playing crash 2 - you can see how it improves on the first and my guess the 3rd even better.

Can't understand the score 7 based on it's difficulty spikes, it's a classic and should be judged by it's passed also. GameSpot gave it 6! and the reviewer declared he didn't finish the game, like what? yes it's hard but the same outlet gave a Kirby game 6 based on how easy it is...

If you want some solid review from a Nintendo outlet that understands platformers go and watch GameExplain on YouTube.

Honestly it's a sweet game.

Re: Nintendo Confirms Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Is A "Brand New Game", Not A Wii U Port

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It's an old paradox: The Ship of Theseus.

In the metaphysics of Identity, the ship of Theseus (or Theseus's paradox) is a thought experiment that raises the question of whether a ship - standing for an object in general - that has had all of its components replaced remains fundamentally the same object.

First, suppose that the famous ship sailed by the hero Theseus in a great battle has been kept in a harbour as a museum piece. As the years go by some of the wooden parts begin to rot and are replaced by new ones.

After a century or so, all of the parts have been replaced. Is the "restored" ship still the same object as the original?
Second, suppose that each of the removed pieces were stored in a warehouse, and after the century, technology develops to cure their rotting and enable them to be put back together to make a ship. Is this "reconstructed" ship the original ship? And if so, is the restored ship in the harbour still the original ship too?

Re: Ubisoft CEO Believes The Next Generation Of Consoles Will Be The Last

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Take for example ADOBE a much bigger and smarter company. They would love to provide their IDE as a fully streamed service just like Office 365 web but they can't due to the fact that latency issues are experienced differently between productivity suites.

Whats good for office apps and browsing does not work for development IDE's graphics apps. In my work we have Citrix server on a lan environment solid and clean and running these apps is horrible - Games will have the same effect - it's not passing the network deltas it's streaming every change and actually processing each user interaction on a server and what it means you need to host GPU farms that costs x10 then what is currently priced and you need to solve the latency (meaning you need to stay very close to those customers physically (less then 10ms reaction) and make sure each of those customers have a powerful internet infra to their ISP.

This will be possible in S. Korean in 5 years from now at least. the Rest of the world can forget about it.