Important note to clarify, it still says that the screen is VRR, but no longer mentions VRR support for external displays. This is something that they could very easily patch in support for, so it might be that this just isn't ready for launch for whatever reason?
This tone is exactly what I am talking about when I said the amount of venom in the discourse is bizarre. You're making insanely aggressive personal attacks on me just because I don't share your view that the sky is falling.
I'm not going to stoop to your level and insult you, I'm just going to tell you to chill the fuck out.
If you're gonna accuse me of "supporting the death of the industry" for playing something I enjoy, you are exactly who I am talking to when I say chill the fuck out.
Akagi is the best series that I can't actually recommend, because if you don't know anything about Mahjong it will be completely incomprehensible. Or if you do know anything about Mahjong, you've already read it and didn't need me to recommend it to you. Akagi is peak, but only for a very specific niche audience.
Kaiji is the one I can recommend. Kaiji gets conned by shady loan sharks and forced to gamble his way out of crippling debt, playing all kinds of bizarre games with high stakes. It's the same style of intense psychological warfare, but, like, accessible to the average reader.
He's written a lot of other great stuff, and most of it is more Mahjong, but those are the big two from him.
Original Pro Controllers are fully supported. I couldn't find any mention of whether that includes third-party controllers, but I'm assuming so until they say otherwise. (Please don't break my 8BitDo and GP2040-CE...)
Old JoyCons work wirelessly, but can't be connected physically, and you might need a standalone charger for them if you don't have one. Also they obviously don't support new features like mouse mode, so they might not be compatible with games that use those features.
I may be stretching the definition of cancelled a bit because we don't know if it was ever in development to begin with, but I will forever have a chip on my shoulder about Puyo Puyo 30th Anniversary.
The three best games in the series were Puyo Puyo 15th Anniversary (2006), Puyo Puyo 20th Anniversary (2011), and Puyo Puyo Chronicle (2016, this game is 25th in all but name). None of these games were released outside of Japan, but after Puyo Puyo Tetris's Switch port got localized in 2017 and sold really well, fans had high hopes that the pattern would continue and the next one of these would get localized too.
The pattern did not continue. Instead, Sega responded to PPT selling well by making Puyo Puyo Tetris 2. It's literally the exact same as the first game, only much buggier. It's a terrible game and I hate it.
To this day, we still have not gotten a proper mainline game. In fact, Sega just announced they're rereleasing Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S as a Switch 2 launch title. This is all the series will ever be from now on.
That's very much not true then. Have you ever tried to set up a third party store like F-Droid?
Android requires you to dig into the settings before you can install third party APKs, and gives you several big scary warnings about it. If you download an APK from the web browser, it will then prevent you from directly opening it, claiming it's to protect you from malware. Instead you have to open the file browser and find it in your downloads folder, then you can install it from there. Finally, it will give you even more big scary warnings about letting any app that isn't Google Play have permissions to install its own APKs.
The average person has never had to install Windows or MacOS, they buy a computer with it pre-installed. And they buy phones with Google Play pre-installed.
Valve is in the business of selling PC games. Moving into a new market wouldn't be trivial, and Google has put up a lot of barriers to make it especially difficult for a third-party app store to challenge their monopoly.
Stylized graphics can look great for cheap, but they aren't a shortcut to instant success. For every successful indie, there are a thousand more that never sell more than a handful of copies.
There are so many problems with the industry today, but the amount of venom in the discourse around $80 Mario Kart has felt bizarre to me. I do feel that there are much worse problems.
Like it's worth mentioning how a lot of games already are well above $80 after DLC anyway, but I guess those games get a pass? Or just how fucked up most F2P business models are, exploiting whales to subsidize everybody else. I'd rather play a game where everyone pays a fair price than one where addicts are taken advantage of and encouraged to financially ruin themselves.
I don't often buy games at full price myself. Only for a handful of IPs I really love, or multiplayer games I want to get in on the ground floor of, anything else I'll wait for a sale. But the way I see it, if Kirby Air Ride 2 costs $80, I'm willing to spend $80 on that game because I know I will get that much enjoyment out of it. I've waited 22 years for this sequel, it's worth it to me!
And I think ultimately, you gotta just buy the things that are worth it to you, skip the things that aren't, and then chill the fuck out.
Important note to clarify, it still says that the screen is VRR, but no longer mentions VRR support for external displays. This is something that they could very easily patch in support for, so it might be that this just isn't ready for launch for whatever reason?