I believe the PS2 hardware was weaker than the GameCube on a technical level, but the Xbox was absolutely way more powerful. Nintendo should have had the home field advantage though, given the popularity of the Nintendo brand. The GameCube should have sold well, especially since it was cheaper than a PS2 or Xbox, but it didn’t.

Yet again, the Japanese displaying a clear misunderstanding or willful ignorance of the positive effects of piracy on business and consumption.

If you target piracy, your product becomes harder to get or find, discoverability goes down especially among people that cannot afford to buy it, then you lose even more money since people that could maybe afford only some avanues of paying for your product are now priced out of the products entirely. This happens all the time.

The GameCube is my favorite example. It was hard to pirate games for. Unsurprisingly, the console sold really, really badly in South East Asia. At the same time, PS2 and Xbox both used normal disks, and consequently, since games could be pirated easily, those consoles outsold the GameCube in South East Asia. Nintendo was a victim of their own hubris, their attempt to reduce piracy literally meant they got outsold by their competitors. This is not a unique experience, this continues to happen again and again.

Physical copies are almost always cheaper, especially if you buy used. You cannot currently buy used digital games, and the sales they go on are rarely lower than their physical copy counterparts.

I remember about a month after Destiny 1 launched the Rise of Iron expansion, I went to buy my brother the digital edition on Xbox 360 and it was like $100 USD, but there was a disx only used copy on ebay for $7. You can guess which copy I went with lol.

Chuuni Megumin… So… Just Megumin? Lol.

Stellar Blade performs well despite using Denuvo. Imagine how much better it will run when Denuvo is removed.

Are they planning on adding network support for multiplayer? Or is it already a feature?

If they tried they would probably get microwaved off the face of the planet.

There could be a counterattack on US soil, you are correct, but I would imagine it would be limited to a high population density area, which while that would effect more people than somewhere in the midwest, thankfully your chances of being attacked are pretty low unless you live in Los Angeles, Washington DC, or New York City, since it seems like Iranian militants (and everyone else outside the US, really) only know that those three cities exist. Oh, maybe the Pentagon, too. But like, anywhere else I would say is pretty unlikely to suffer from a counterattack.

Yeah, this would be a massive W for me. Not having to pay child support or raise a kid is a way better pick. Some people might want children, and that’s perfectly okay, but I don’t.

That is true. To be fair, Duke is already dead. But now he will be even deader.

You should put in the title that this is only for Linux.

Gotta get grandma on that Metroid II grind too, King.

“We all did it and we are fine!”

Its not about addiction. Its about people that are affected by something not knowing or intentionally ignoring that they are. Is it possible that they have no effects? Sure, but the liklihood is very incredibly tiny.

I just used Gambling Addiction as an example because I thought it would be obvious and not go over people’s heads. I guess either I expected too much or my point is proven, or both.

I’ll be real, this has the same energy as:

“Gambling Addiction? I’ve been gambling for 20 years and I’m still not addicted.”

And while yes, a person could theoretically be a gambler for 20 years and not be addicted, the likelihood of that happening is very incredibly tiny.

Ah great. Duke’s dead.

It more or less did on the Series X. A lot of the clips people posted showing the really bad performance and bugs were from the original 2014 Xbox One or the Series S. On the Series X, it performed very well and I think I had it crash only twice in a 70 hour playthrough, in my own experience playing 2077 on my own Series X.

Even if that is legal (it isn’t)

1. Are you a lawyer?

2. I am not a lawyer, but I have talked to lawyers about this before and their answer was basically:

The owner of a copy of a game or other computer software may “make or authorize the making of another copy.” Legally speaking, the law does not require the person who owns the copy to personally make the backup copy, nor does it specify that the backup copy be made only from the copy owned.

This is important because on Nintendo’s own website they state the following:

Therefore, whether you have an authentic game or not […] it is illegal to download […] a Nintendo ROM from the Internet.

What Nintendo is saying here is outright wrong. A person who only has only temporary possession of a game (such as rental or borrowing) gains no rights under 17 USC 117, and may not download a copy without separate permission, which obviously Nintendo would never grant However, A person with permanent possession of a game (such as a legally purchased game either from retail or used) DOES gain those rights to an archival copy. These rights supercede any restriction on those rights Nintendo would presume to apply. Nintendo presumes to add extra conditions and terms that do not actually exist in the law.

The purpose of the archival copy provision is to protect legal owner’s access to the computer software in case of damage. If your copy of a game breaks, such as a broken CD, you have the legal right, as owner of that CD, to continue to use the computer software on that CD no matter its physical condition. An archival copy could then be used to create a working version of that CD so that you, the legal owner of that copy, may continue to access that computer software. This is also the case when access to that software becomes difficult or impossible, such as a game or other computer software that is stored on archaic storage media such as a floppy disk or paper tape.

Tencent foaming at the mouth right now

Well, assuming that a modern remake or continuation can manage to recapture the magic of the original and retain its style:

Bubblegum Crisis (NOT Tokyo 2040)

The Turtle Arc really hurt this one. Glad its past that, I look forward to seeing what happens.

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