That’s our secret, we just hide it well.

I feel sorry for them for the team that designed this. They had all this shit ready to go and then the RAM and SSD prices went through the roof, and tbh if you’re speccing a machine for mass production, those seem like the bits that were always gonna be cheaper by the time it comes to actually building it. Why would they ever go up? They never have before.

It was a nice idea, but the timing had completely fucked it. I don’t think it was ever going to compete with the PS5 on price, but right now it’s barely even competing with PC on price…

Even the Steam Deck isn’t competitive any more.

This is what shows in Steam when you search for it.

This is all you can buy.

New rule. Give your product to 10 random people off the street. Get them to pour out one portion that they’d eat.

Take the average, that’s now your portion size.

The talk of difficulty is overblown. You can always level up more and often bring a helper to difficult fights you’re having trouble with.

If you can beat God of War, you can beat these.

Just takes a while to get out of the button mashing, checkpoint before every encounter mentality.

Well yes, but also no.

Probably so they don’t have to declare the milk in the calorie content…

Mental innit? First gen I’ve ever seen where price of hardware went up…

Killing off Double Fine would be a war crime. They’re a national treasure.

It’s a brutal time to be releasing hardware like this.

GPU prices, RAM, SSDs, all inflated through the roof.

This should have been the price of a PS5 Pro, with the performance of a PS5 and it’s not even that.

I still want the Frame, but only because my OG Rift died a couple of months back. I really don’t want to have to go crawling back to Meta for a Quest 3 when I see the price of the Frame, but I’m not optimistic. They really need a reduced spec Frame that just does the streaming portion. With RAM and GPU prices as they are, that would at least make some sense.

Probably, but given that there are reams of files telling us the sort of things he’s done, and nobody does a damn thing about it, you have to ask yourself why would he care?

Sega got out of hardware and it’s probably the only reason they’re still around.

This shit has got greedy hubris written all over it. They’ve seen the Neo Geo revival and rubbed their little hands together thinking of charging $49.99 a go for Sonic the Hedgehog.

Hey ChatGPT, can you make this “article” about 3-4 times longer so I can get paid?

It will be.

Zero knowledge proof is a thing, but we all know that’s not what they’re going for.

“Oh no, this is terrible” cry the social media sites, while working out just how much your passport details and home address are worth to advertisers.

I stopped playing Wipeout 3 because it required a manual load of your save when you started it up.

Eventually I pressed the wrong option and overwrote my save with a blank file.

Never played it again.

The more time goes on, the more I think Sony’s approach of adding games after a year or so was the right one.

You can’t have a subscription service giving day one access to all your content, and provide good content, and have it at a reasonable price. Something has to give. Even when you’ve got as much money as Microsoft.

The glorious cloud gaming future they envisaged never happened. You’re still limited to people willing to shell out for some gaming hardware.

I don’t care that Steam has an effective monopoly on digital games. That’s fine. Games can and are on many other services for PC, but gamers want them on Steam. Fine. Whatever. You can even buy games from other services, get Steam codes, and use them as if you got them from Steam, even though Steam get no money from that sale. That’s amazing. Really.

But.

They killed the idea that you can own a PC game. I mean legally own it, be able to sell your copy of it to another person, and no longer have it yourself. You could do that with physical. You still can with physical console games. But on PC that concept is dead. It’s not coming back. And Valve did that. You now just rent them. Fine, you think, Valve isn’t going anywhere. But one day Valve will be gone, and this will matter. No king rules forever.

And the least said about lootboxes and hats and all that scummy crap the better.