Stovetop @ Stovetop @lemmy.world

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I don't think the Xbox One was a disappointment due to a boycott, I think it was just a product people didn't feel the need to buy.

Sure, there was early controversy about the always-online DRM approach they planned to take, but it didn't launch with that in the end. What killed its hype was just being US$100 more expensive than the PS4 and having no killer exclusives lined up.

One factor might be just that Mass Effect came out first and was also Bioware's last game before EA bought them.

The rest is just my opinion, but I do believe that Mass Effect simply told a better story (multicolored endings aside) and had a better cast of characters. Not to mention the fact that it was a single narrative across the three installments helped keep engagement up. And shooters were incredibly popular at that time.

Sorry, should've clarified that this isn't directed towards you, OP! Just at a lot of the other comments in here who are acting like someone else's decision to buy an expensive gadget is a personal insult to them.

Console wars stopped being cool years ago. Everyone has their preferences and favorites, no need to shit on someone's fun because you think yours is better.

Spiritfarer was a masterpiece, hope their next game also succeeds.

Knowledge and empowerment!

(But also fire)

The number of people you lay (on hands) with.

I think it's more the fact that kids weren't really brought to busy markets/stores 100 years ago, nor were there busy streets full of cars everywhere. They stayed home or just in the local environment, and typically mom would also stay home to watch them and make sure they stayed out of trouble.

Maybe I'm just feeling unnecessarily vindictive today, but I think it would have been better without the censors. Ad companies deserve to be called out and shamed for what they've done to the internet. They're parasites, and if having this information published would make someone at an ad company feel uncomfortable, good. They should feel that way every day.

That looks closer to where things are today, with a lot of mainstream UIs that aren't quite superflat going for that frosted, acrylic sort of aesthetic. Translucent but not transparent.

Examples from Windows 11 and iOS 18:

Guessing it's like how car makers release 2026 models in 2025.

Apple sometimes (often? usually?) releases devices and OS updates towards the end of the year to capitalize on holiday shopping, so their logic is probably that this is what they will "start" 2026 with.

Another user shared this screenshot in the other post about the new design language, and it definitely has readability problems when there's too much on the display at once.

Agreed. It just looks so busy with all of the background details.

I guess that's the flaw with this design language. It looks kinda cool, but the effect is not very pronounced unless there are clear background details for it to do its whole refraction thing over. But then when there's too much background detail, it makes the actual foreground interface harder to read.

I don't hate it per se, but I think it's just an unnecessary step backwards from the design languages popular today. But what I know I'm really going to hate is that now everyone is going to be trying to copy Apple's design language, and we are teetering back towards the bubbly, glossy, skeuomorphic design of Frutiger Aero from the mid 00's.

You can host your own instance, or use another Fediverse platform which integrates with Lemmy like Mbin or Piefed.

Edit: Also worth noting that your Lemmy instance (lemm.ee) announced they're going offline at the end of the month, so if you're looking for alternatives, there's plenty of options on Lemmy as well as other platforms.

Yeah, ultimately it's a matter of personal discretion.

Mainly I think we're at the point where new consoles, now including the Switch, are more like upgrading your PC. Get the newer model to run existing games better.

Games are going to be releasing for both Switch and Switch 2 for a while, so there's not much incentive to upgrade unless the very small list of Switch 2 exclusives is enticing right now. But if someone's priority is playing through older games in higher quality now that it is possible to do so without pirating, there are a lot of reasons to upgrade.

It took several years for PS5 to get to the point where it was probably worth it for exclusives alone (and may still not even be there yet for many), but it was worth getting day 1 if there were PS4 games someone wanted to play at higher resolutions and/or framerates, and they didn't mind the price.

Actually on the topic of price, also worth acknowledging that the market is a bit fucked, and existing consoles have only gone up in price since release, in complete disregard for earlier trends where they usually drop in price over time, so that could be a other reason for someone to want to get in on it early.

It's not as extreme as Lemmygrad, but there's a good deal of overlap.

A lot of people, despite using Lemmy, also disagree ideologically with the developers of Lemmy, and feel as though it's a conflict of interest to both develop the platform and have a preferred instance on it.

I don't block .ml and I think the majority of users there are fine, but there are a few specific people (a couple who I know also have alts on Lemmygrad) who just show up everywhere and tend to give the entire instance its reputation.

Best we can do is a "No, German" switch.