Quoting: ElectricPrismAfter owning 4 X360, 4 XONE, 4 DS4, 2 Steam Controller and 2 Wiimotes I really love the low latency of X360, the wireless range (not available on bluetooth) and the ability to use regular batteries instead of charge and decharge a non-removable battery fucking up my playtime waiting.

I still hate the X360 dongle and how ackward and messy it is.

I was not hopeful that the Nintendo controller would offer much of interest or value.

I am curious if the Atari VCS controller will be constructed well or not and be worth it or not.

Atari is outsourcing that to Power A apparently, who I have read make sub-par controllers.

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It is actually a REALLY nice controller (as far as feel goes). I bought one for 60 (I have seen them as high as 70-80), but it is a really nice controller. My PS4 controllers were 60 as well. I think the cool features of it are 1) USB-C, 2) HD Rumble (whatever that means) and it does have a Gyro, which the typical 360 controller does not.

The things I do hate about it.

Nintendo HAS to be different, so the buttons are switched.... Died many times in Breath of the Wild due to that.

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Quoting: etonbears

Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: etonbearsIf that is the case, the management team would be in a strong position to do what they want. Keeping the share price strong and stable would be in their own interests as well, of course.

Then I'm not sure what problem they had with Linux release. Or was it expected to mess up their stock prices?

It was suggested earlier in the thread that the bad press from the TW2 port caused a temporary stock price event. I didn't find evidence of that When I looked at the stock history.

Most likely the revenue from TW2 wasn't strong enough to warrant other ports at this time. I live in hope that their future games are built cross-platform, but would not be surprised if they continued to ignore Linux.

Well, considering by the time they did the port it was an old game, and most people probably already owned it. This is pretty typical for a lot of Linux games, it's hard to justify not making money on something that is basically given away for free on Steam if you already have it for another operating system.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: slaapliedjeI guess if you look at it in the way that you can't just (currently) stick your own software on an SD Card and run it on the switch, that it is DRM. But the same could (loosely) be argued about being able to take a piece of windows software and put it into a Linux system, and not be able to run it

Well, not exactly. It's one thing that you can't run one architecture on another, or PE binary on Linux (or ELF on Windows) without some hacks / translation / emulation. That's just technical incompatibilities and it's not DRM indeed. It's quite another thing when they lock the bootloader which prevents you from installing another OS on the device. That's surely DRM in my view.

Yeah, that's why I said it could very loosely be argued. Not that I'm not arguing that. But to be fair, actual copy protection systems generally do make emulation / translation layers much more difficult to implement.

I'm not sure of the case now (since I don't use Wine all that much) but back in the day, you pretty much always had to install the game, then use the 'noCD' crack to be able to run it.

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I kept wondering what Xen was, when I see it I think of this; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagicWB [External Link]

There are mods working on Half-Life VR, would be awesome if Black Mesa got the support for VR as well!

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Maybe if we all pitched in and sent them hookers and blow, they'd come around and port the other two Witcher games? Hookers can be dressed as penguins, so they know it was from us.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: slaapliedjeIs this DRM though?

According to mobile operators it is. They also used to lock devices that prevented users from switching to competing networks. You can argue it's not DRM, but they actually threatened those who tried to break that with anti-circumvention. That's why DRM has nothing to do with rights. It's quite proper to call it Digital Restrictions Management, it's exactly what it's used for - to restrict the user.

In case of Switch and most incumbent consoles - they have tons of such restrictions.

Yeah, I'm well aware of this. I guess if you look at it in the way that you can't just (currently) stick your own software on an SD Card and run it on the switch, that it is DRM. But the same could (loosely) be argued about being able to take a piece of windows software and put it into a Linux system, and not be able to run it.

DRM to me has always been a stupid software restriction, like requiring a CD-Key, or having a server out there so you have to be online to play a game even when it's single-player. Retarded stuff like this should stop.

It's funny that DRM really only affects legitimate users, because Pirates just remove it.

The best thing about this 'hack' is that it's a backdoor left in there by nVidia and is part of the chipset. There is no way they can patch it without sending out updated hardware. Which leaves me feeling like I can actually allow the Nintendo portion to be updated without them being able to take away the homebrew potential.

Let's face it, after a few years a console's life is over commercially, but the homebrew guys will always write stuff. Look at the Atari 2600, people are still releasing games for it!

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Quoting: etonbears

Quoting: TheRiddickHows the GPU power compared to the Tegra1 and 2 chips I wonder? Is Vega 8 1TFLOP iGPU?

I assume it means 8 Vega compute units. So assuming the CPU can keep the Vega pipelines primed, just look up Vega 64 Full HD benchmarks and divide the framerate by 8.

Not something I would be interested in, but the Z-Pads look like something the Steam Controller could do with. I find the Steam controller haptic pads don't work well as intended ( for me ), and the ability to choose your own preferred sticks and buttons has to be helpful.

Hmm, that's the question, why hasn't the Steam Controller had things made for it like this yet? I know a while back they had some contest for 3D Printed designs, but the only one that seemed to come around was the bottom that can also hold the wireless dongle.

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Ha, we did totally go off topic, didn't we? Awesome how knowledgeable the people are on this forum though!

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: Guestgetting...well, a bit boring and disappointing.

It's pretty much on topic. You can't run Linux on Switch, without breaking the DRM there first, which folks from fail0verflow did quite successfully to enable this. That's a good thing if you missed the point.

Is this DRM though? Basically this is simply connecting two pins where the Joy-Con connects, which allows for a different firmware to be loaded. It's a hardware feature of Tegra X1 to give access to the recovery in case it's been bricked.

It's the equivalent of unlocking the boot loader on an Android phone. DRM being Digital Rights Management, I don't think the acronym really applies here.

I do agree with you that DRM is a terrible thing though. Just not sure if the definition here fits.

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