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@nintendoknife this definitely sounds like a router issue or something other than the switch. if you can’t move rooms without disconnecting that is definitely not normal. i have two switches here and neither of them have experienced connection issues in the 2 years we’ve owned them. then again i’m not using mesh or power line networks (and didn’t realize people took the joke of powerline networks seriously). also your phone is a poor judge of signal as phones will aggressively hold onto a WAP even though the signal cannot support traffic or is basically nonexistent.

@YagaMaki looks like ~63mil for xbox and ~94m for psn according to statista

@johnvboy you’ll find that the people who complain and rage on the internet about such things are generally the minority. a perfect example is look how many people in the comments section that refuse to subscribe, yet we just passed 10mil subs.

@HalBailman that’s not the only relevant question. we were taking about the failure of the current pro systems until you switched to this relevance rant.

@HalBailman what exactly are you talking about? it seems like you got too many trolls going on at once and got some wires crossed. my comment is completely relevant to the conversation WE were having.

@HalBailman you definitely misunderstood my comment. to recap what i said, new buyers don’t want to spend the extra and exiting users don’t see a need to upgrade. there’s also different degrees of fail. if the pro variants were garbage then that’s one fail, and not selling in the market is another fail. both of the pro consoles were talking about here are not garbage, just that the market doesn’t want them. you also have to take into consideration the platforms age. who would buy a pro variant when a new console is right around the corner. so again, they failed in the market but the unit itself was not a failure

@HalBailman I wouldn't necessarily say they got it wrong, they're at least backwards compatible. the sales are definitely lower but this can be attributed to less time on the market and a cheaper alternative available (the non pro variant of the respective console). most of my gamer friends are ps4 fans, and none of them own a pro but have owned a ps4 since launch. their reasoning is just cost related. so i think they failed in that the market didn't seem to really want it, but the execution i don't think failed

@Sinton Correct, I should've wrote "any other console developer".

@HalBailman this is the first generation any console developer did a pro version. the reasoning was always the same with the other companies but now that’s no longer an issue

i would still love a switch without the screen dock or battery, that just connects to a display. it would be so small you could embed it into a TV and sell a new type of smart TV with a switch inside. nintendo is very focused on portability though so i don’t see this ever happening with the switch

@Yorumi the burden of proof? you realize this isn't a court room yes? i gave you the law to look at, do your research and learn for yourself or don't, i really don't care. the amount of time you've spent responding you could've read the entire act already, so if you're looking for a waste of time.... as far as journalist privilege goes, generally to be considered for protection you must be working for a news org. these are definitely registered with the state as any other business is. the owner of this twitter account lists themselves as a journalist, but has no official business. a judge can extend journalistic privilege to them, if they feel they are working in this capacity but they have no obligation to. even still all this protects them from is revealing their sources, it does not make them immune to any other laws

@impurekind no you don’t have to be rude to get anything across. so we’re done here, i’m not gonna do your research for you

@Yorumi this is just untrue, again search and you’ll find instances of people that were complicit by just passing information. and no not anybody is a reporter for the same reason some random person walking down the street isn’t considered a reporter

@BacklogBlues I commented after you, directed towards another user, and not at you. I wasn't calling you rude and none of that was directed towards you. Sorry for the confusion!

@Yorumi You're capable of searching the internet like I, it took me a matter of minutes to find tons of cases where the person worked for the company in question. I didn't look for any specific to reporters, but this guy/girl isn't a reporter working in their job, it's just someone posting on a twitter account. I doubt reporter protections would apply to them.

Where are you getting the NDA from? Do we know Nintendo has them under NDA? You're correct, telling someone to violate their NDA isn't illegal, but giving someone bad legal advice could have consequences for that person. The person here is telling the twitter user they should keep going because "What is Nintendo gonna do?". It's easy to say that when you have no consequences to face.

@impurekind you're a very rude person, and clearly not a lawyer. explain why it doesn't apply instead of hiding behind your "it doesn't apply" opinion. then get off of NL for a second, find some cases where the act was used and find out what the people did and you'll see it most definitely does apply. you're not a subject matter expert on all things law because you got sued by WB

@impurekind that’s not for you or me to decide, and the way the text of the act reads it very much applies

@Crono1973 in short: “The act makes the theft or misappropriation of a trade secret a federal crime.”

@impurekind @Lone_Beagle

Economic Espionage Act of 1996, look it up

@rjejr they could and likely do have monitoring on such metrics. with changes so small and imperceptible to a human it’s likely a program feeding them this data and not a meeting room full of engineers and game designers as you’re envisioning. you also need to keep in mind they are in the business to make money. however irrational their decisions may seem you can be assured with a company the size of nintendo that they’re acting rationally

@rjejr how much work do you think is actually involved here? if their devs are worth anything then specific weapon configurations are a CSV file that’s imported into the engine. after that it’s a quick test in QA then it’s off to the presses.

@NEStalgia it really depends on the demand for the services that factory can provide. if all they can make is switch game carts and demand drops too much then sure they will have to retrain. if they can reconfigure and produce other goods. not all goods can be easily delivered over the internet so in those cases it makes sense to use traditional delivery methods. retraining should not be viewed negatively either. no experience is wasted, even if it’s unclear how it relates and retraining can cost nothing if you know where to look and pick certain fields. you obviously can’t become a nurse or anything requiring credentials to even test for competence, but fields like software engineering or IT are easily attainable. not the tech type? tons of not tech jobs exist in the same sector and still require you to just prove competence in an interview or from past works.

@StevenG Yea because that will happen.

@NEStalgia you understand this is a comment board and not a free form essay board yes? I skimmed that because I don’t have that kinda time but you’re missing one huge point. If a decrease in demand in manufacturing decreases available jobs they must increase elsewhere. Further, the digital delivery pipeline has multiple uses, we use it for delivering media, audio, and other data (collectively known as the internet). If the factories producing game carts dropped to no demand, what would they be used for?

@NEStalgia do an ounce of research and you’ll find the typical waste from a server farm is substantially less than that of factories, delivery ships and trucks and all else involved.

@StevenG I don’t have kids and other adults I know with a switch will just buy whatever game I want. If my SD card dies I can just redownload, up until they pull the plug on the server at which point I doubt I will be playing an old switch game. As far as how many games I play, we have LAN parties at work occasionally, in these cases about 10-15 of them will be launched in one night. When I’m just out and about it’s still more than 1. You’re also not thinking about the wear and tear on the cartridge port. What will you do when inserting and removing cartridges wear your contacts down and you have a problem like the old NES did. There’s pros and cons to each, and I don’t care about the pros of physical.

@shining_nexus what about the factories producing the blank carts and cases, fuel and carbon used / emitted during transport, carts that end up in the landfill because someone just threw it away. there’s a lot more waste than just the cases

@StevenG It’s convenience. I have a 400gb sd card filled. probably 20-30 games. i’m supposed to carry that around with the console to game? i could care less about physical, i want convenience and as an adult i make more than enough money to not need to trade in games to buy more. physical buyers seem like children to me, kicking and screaming the entire way even though they won’t get what they want in the end. i have probably $2k spend on digital only switch games, only zelda is physical as it came with my wife’s switch, i am happily part of the problem as well

@zool ok? so because they have a switch currently they must do something fresh? this is nintendo where they’ll release incremental updates and sell the same platform with different exteriors

@zool docked and handheld play

@Bunkerneath liquid mercury thermometers are still a thing, even though it is poisonous.

What about the US? And iPhone X/Xr/Xs variants? As impractical as it is I’d jump all over the squidphone case.

@ItsOKToBeOK “He states that the total number of subscribers - which, in this case, includes non-paying accounts within family memberships - has now surpassed that eight million mark, not including users enjoying free trials”

So it’s not $160mil, and we can’t guess how much they’re pulling in without knowing how many family accounts are subbed. Its definitely less than $160mil.

She’s a great singer and I’m glad she go her dream, but I loath this song so much I mute the console until I get passed it. It seems more like an intro song to an anime instead of a fighting game. This song has definitely reduced the amount I play smash, substantially. ARMS has a better theme song than this that gets more in the mood to play. Granted it’s much more simple and repetitive but I don’t get that anime feeling from it.

@30mm did they? that will be for the courts to decide. they could’ve very well it was assumed released in the public domain given there was no copyright filed.

@30mm yet it’s interesting that none of these artists filed for a copyright until after they found someone with a lot of money using it.

@Rohanrocks88 epic definitely knows it won’t last forever, which is why push content like there’s no tomorrow.

@Cobalt unreal engine doesn’t work that way. the pop in you see is unreal starting to render and object that was previously not rendered. the sections of the map not being displayed are not even run through the game loop and therefore do not impact the performance of the game at all. the only thing rendered that is not within view distance is potentially landscape, billboards, skybox and anything else in the main level. the switch is more than capable of handling all of this. both warframe and doom both do exactly what unreal / ark does, dynamically load levels. except in the case of ark this load is not put behind some loading animation

@Indielink yea for sure, the games you listed are stellar examples of F2P done right. i just wish more studios followed their models

@Medic_alert i feel your pain, it’s $120 here for gig down and ~40mbps up. also it’s “fiber” on this side of the pond 😉

@Indielink i have to disagree. before the f2p model was so rampant these types of items would be unlockable, greatly extending gameplay. these days you get to a certain point and either the grind is increased to a point where anybody with a job can’t progress in the game or they force you to buy something to progress.

For those of us that don’t use JPY (why do they quote these prices in yen here?) the drop was from ~$38.50 to ~$36.12. hardly the dramatic failure they portray here with their wordcraft

@NintonicGamer Well Christmas is coming and some people have both a wife and kid?

@Kenology when did being an indian become offensive? are indians not proud of their heratige (rhetorical, i know they are). if this is offensive shouldn’t we remove all imagery depicting indians? given a large enough cohort you’re guaranteed to find someone that finds offensive with just about anything so the ultimate end to this is no videos, images, games, or speech/art of any kind to avoid an possible offensive. this is obviously unsustainable

@impurekind yes we do measure the state of the industry by the success or failure of one of the largest player in that industry. If they are doing well, getting investors and selling units their stock price would be higher, but it’s currently sitting st $0.07/share and can’t even be listed on NASDAQ because it’s worth so little. Nintendo didn’t reduce its value to a 1/10th of what it was during the wii u era but even still the wii u was considered a failure and that’s why their stock price dropped. much like oculus

@impurekind then plz explain why oculus stock is worth 1/10th what it was two years ago? what about himax? they’re also suffering and are one of the leading chipset manufacturers for VR headsets. use real market stats instead of youtube videos. also you think that the previous attempts weren’t real attempts? what makes this time different?

@impurekind you do realize this is the 3rd attempt and launching consumer VR experiences right? many people don’t like the experience because it basically means strapping a couple of screens to your face. then there’s the disconnect with movement in the simulation vs the real world. VR will take off one day, when omnidirectional treadmills don’t look stupid sitting in a living room and an entire setup doesn’t cost more than a beast gaming rig but today is not that day and this is not the rendition that will take off. plenty of fan boys have existed throughout the years praising how awesome it is yet still it hasn’t taken off. you call people ignorant for not understanding VR but it’s you who are ignorant for not understanding the market. if VR were taking off every AAA title released would support it. it’s a gimmick and it’s already dying off again. if you can’t see this then perhaps your being paid to promote it and are blinded by that fact.

@Bruh i wouldn’t call that the best, it works sure but the live view lags on occasion, their software is meh (though you can use OBS directly), their encoder in their software is meh, producing artifacts (again, use OBS) and when the device is off it won’t pass through the signal. As far as HDMI capture devices i’ve used go, i don’t see what the hype about elgato kit is. It works but it’s by no means the best

@Equinox the building in fortnite is no where near even minutely close to being on par with MC. In fortnite you don’t build for astetics like you do in minecraft you build out of necessity. Then the end of the match it’s all destroyed. I used to be heavily into MC and i see nothing in fortnite that would make you draw the conclusion that they are mostly old MC players playing fortnite. Shooters have always been one of the more popular genres, especially amongst casuals. The players came from PUBG, Overwatch and other shooters, not MC

@HobbitGamer yes it’s a project conversion and a rebuild. also depending on how old the version is they are currently using they may need/want minor code updates.

@Ack @ramu-chan the update involves a project conversion, something very straightforward with unreal engine (unless the devs decided they new better and rewrote portions of the core engine). I definitely expect indy devs to move to the new version, maybe not the large studios.

@Balchad I have a 256GB atm but am seriously considering upgrading to the 400GB during this sale. 256GB isn’t enough these days XD