ampersandrew @ ampersandrew @lemmy.world

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By sheer compatibility, we're well more than halfway there.

No one can predict the future, especially not now, but things are clearly changing. Microsoft is getting messaging out there right now to let you know the ways that they're rolling with the punches. The next Xbox, and corresponding handhelds, will in all likelihood just be thinly disguised PCs that absolutely let you just install Steam, Epic, etc. on them if you so choose. So in that world, when you can buy an Xbox that also plays PlayStation games that have released on PC, how does Sony compete with that? That's very up in the air.

And for all the ways that Nintendo has historically handled consoles, they're under new management now that may be open to doing things differently. The way they're trying to press their market advantage at the moment, which was already going to result in fewer units sold, could be even further undone at the worst possible time for them by a stupid trade war. How will they choose to respond to that? Because bleeding money by sticking to their old ways isn't going to be what happens. If they did burn to the ground, the insurance company that owns their intellectual property would dig them out of the ashes and sell them where they can make money again.

That's going to happen in only a few years, with the next Xbox.

Even MMOs have been run by amateurs. If you make the servers available, someone will figure out how to run it.

Mad Max is WB.

My friend loves quoting a line from that show where HyperScape was uttered in the same breath as games like Call of Duty as a "mega franchise" to try to will its success into existence. That episode is only a few years old, but HyperScape is already shut down forever.

I can't make you like it if you didn't enjoy it the first time, but I thought it was a great FPS and RPG that didn't waste enough time, like its contemporaries might, to become boring. If you gave it a few hours, you've probably seen the cut of its jib.

Even when deep discounted to a dollar, I have a hard time calling Due Process pro consumer when it doesn't let you host the server yourself.

Most profitable per employee is a different metric, and yes, they may very well be that, but that's not what you said before. Boycotting all of Steam because some of Valve's games do the thing they don't like is a tough sell, rather than just not playing or paying into the offending games. I certainly don't take issue with them taking a cut of every game sold on Steam, given all that they've built with those proceeds.

E3 may be dead, but the "E3 walk" lives on! Seriously though, this looks good. I loved that last one.

They shouldn't, but Valve didn't invent it, and they're definitely not the most profitable business in the US.

You might not like my answer, but I haven't really played new FPS games in years, because basically none of them are doing what I want. I'm well served in basically every other genre right now, but these things are cyclical. We're just getting through the era of indie FPS games inspired by Doom/Quake and other more maze-like shooters, and we may soon be entering the era where FPS games are inspired by my favorites. My multiplayer these days is usually fighting games, and the only ones that will give you trouble on Linux are Dragon Ball FighterZ and the upcoming 2XKO, both due to anti cheat.

As an aside, I'll also say that where you put your time shouldn't matter, if the product is free, for instance, but it does matter in online video games. Your presence in matchmaking is adding value for someone else who might spend money in the game, so you'd still be helping the causes of CS2 and TF2 just by playing on the official servers. For TF2, I think the code just went open source and there's a revitalization project to bring it back to what it was like at launch? If so, that might be pre-loot-box, and playing that version of the game would help send the message you want to send. The same might apply to old versions of Counter-Strike.

You should not put your time or money into anything doing something that you don't like in the marketplace, because that's the only way it changes.

Microsoft is bringing their own games to PlayStation at this point. It's possible it's kept off PlayStation, but I doubt it. Team Cherry knows what their game is worth, and that would be a massive buyout.

We already know it's going to be on Switch 2 and Xbox, including Game Pass day 1. It's not going to be exclusive, but at the very least, Microsoft paid handsomely for it.

In this case, it counts as a PC, but given that you have to ask the question, I think that speaks volumes.

I think an inheritance should probably last longer than a decade. This is still an arbitrary expiration date that's bad for the customer.

That inheritance is going to be on a pretty short timespan, since 3DS and Wii U online services and downloads are already gone.

That's the analyst prediction, not something that came out of talks behind closed doors.

I don't put much stock in games from unknown developers ahead of their release, but people who got access to this during the review period have been dying to get to the end of the embargo to talk about it.