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Quoting: legluondunetNintendo is an innovative company and produces user-friendly games, switch emulators must be costing them a lot of money.

I'm mostly curious as to how nintendo has innovated in the past decade and even since the release of the switch. Also yes bleem was definitely a thing and its legal precedent is still massively important.

The Switch was a huge innovation in itself. The Steam Deck is a complete rip off of that, as are all the Aya and other devices. Add to that that they make the best games and they don't need to be innovating any more in the near future.

I agree BTW they're a backwards and customer hostile company, but it's their IP and they can do anything they want with it.

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Quoting: Cybolicwhen it became possible to play DVD films on PC DVD drives

Wait, it wasn't possible initially?

Yes but also no. For more info you can read about DeCSS [External Link]. Basically Windows (and over on the Apple side, MacOS) DVD players paid for a license from the DVD Copy Association, so they could play DVDs on computers. But for obvious reasons that left out other OSes such as linux, bsd, etc. DeCSS leveled that playing field.

I think initially PCs may have been too slow to play DVDs in software. I had a hardware DVD video decoder for that. It must have been around 97-98?

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyMy understanding of the business model for consoles is they lose money on the consoles but make it back on the games.

This is the Sony/MS business model where they compete on hardware and sell it at a loss to keep the price down. Nintendo doesn’t take part in the hardware race, so they most probably have been making a profit on Switch hardware from day 1. I’m sure people have written about this.

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I like GOG and being Polish I’d like to support them, but their Linux support is laughable and now that the Steam Deck is my main gaming device if something’s not on Steam it doesn’t get played. I haven’t bought anything from them in a few years now and I don’t think that’ll change.

I do wish them luck and am glad they’re turning things around and most of all I appreciate them publishing info like that.

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Quoting: damarrinThis not about Activision or ‘fixing’ it. This is about Microsoft not accumulating any more power in the gaming space. They own the PC OS everyone uses to game, they have a console, they have a shitton of studios.

Sony is not a monopoly in any market, MS is and that’s why they’re scrutinised and treated differently.

Don't forget GamePass, a very effective tool to bind users.

Well, yes, though I expect it to get much less attractive once MS regains its market share.

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This not about Activision or ‘fixing’ it. This is about Microsoft not accumulating any more power in the gaming space. They own the PC OS everyone uses to game, they have a console, they have a shitton of studios.

Sony is not a monopoly in any market, MS is and that’s why they’re scrutinised and treated differently.

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Oh thank god.

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It's not his job to say why the regression happened, or rather it is only if he decides it is. It’s Canonical’s job to keep their system in shape, or put pressure on Gnome to fix their shit if the problem is on their side and can’t be fixed by others.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPIf a game makes you think "this would be so much easier if I was just using a mouse", you know something's fishy.

This makes no sense.

Obviously, reloading a weapon is so much easier if you just press a button instead of ejecting the clip, taking another one and inserting it. If only soldiers on the battlefield could do that.

REVIII is obviously so much easier with a pad or k/m than in VR. You just press buttons and your character does things automatically. Still, the VR version exists and has very different mechanics and is great. If you want to just sit on the couch and press buttons go right ahead, don’t diss people who enjoy doing something else.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPBut playing the VR-free version is just going to make you feel bad about it, VR and non-VR games are just made differently and you'll lose so much while not gaining anything, really.

What people are gaining is the ability to play the latest (and let's face it, quite possibly the last) chapter in only the best game series ever. Apart from being willing/able to shell out money for a VR kit, lots of people are simply unable to use it, because glasses or nausea or other problems.

I fully agree Alyx without VR is bound to be a fraction of its glorious self, but if the choice is to never experience the brilliance or to experience its shadow on a cave wall, I'll say go for it and kudos to these guys for making it happen.

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