Well the industry is looking at Baldur’s Gate 3 to learn how fantasy RPG are supposed to be made. CEO thinks the only thing really missing is the only thing BG3 does NOT have.

I swear, in the future history books end of 1900 and early 2000 will be see as the era of “joke industry”… and the clowns are all the CEOs. Same shit with VR and their closed ecosystem, instead open source such as Linux, Apache server and HTML open standard that made what internet is today.

Corpo shit: “We will have hardware with this great math/science discover. But it will wallgarden so the hardware will strictly tied to make us money and nobody else”

Common sense: “what about open source? It will serve more people and, thus, more money”

Corpo shit: “BUT I WANT ALL THE MONE”

fancy new tech becomes fad.

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Not a build, what I am thinking it’s exactly as a raspberryPi5 is, just slightly more powerful. The idea is to kickstart sort of DIY PC console, in which Valve sell you just the very bare bones (CPU/GPU/ram and only strictly necessary I/O, just like the RPI5 board) + some key license for games to test things out, then anybody can build up whatever they want, even plugging an external GPU if so they desire.

edit: also this may be of interest

What does Valve actually need: sell a x86 SoC PC for extra-extra cheap… barely capable to run 720p60fpd high quality, and extremely well optimized, videogames such as Resident Evil4 Remake and latest Doom, bundle the SoC with those games to the point it may look as you’re just buying regular bundled games but the PC to run it comes for free.

IE: 140€ to get Resident Evil Remake 2,3 and 4 for +the SoC: You just need to add the disk space (MictoSD/SSD) to download&run OS+games.

Dunno why, probably some trickery on pcgamesn, the actual headline was fine when I read it through RSS update, it was fine when I’ve open the article… but then Lemmy suggested the scummy headline (and I didn’t notice) that pcgamesn was still hiding somewhere. I had to manually fix the title, I guess this is a scummy trick for reddit instead: you can’t edit titles over there

Edit: for those confused, you can still read the usual scummy clickbait title in the post content over there

People is going crazy with these b/w filter just to make variations of Elon’s salute.

To counterbalance the two stick up in his ass

Roblox is making lot of money… so why they (gamersplan) need to make an ad for it?

Why even do this? All this does is make scalpers rich. When will NVDIA learn

Scalpers helps with price inflation. What did Nvidia learn it’s to keep making trillions; I wonder if they are realizing they are quickly becoming an hated company.

Wait, you actually mean that Sony doesn’t give you money for free so you can make even more? That’s shocking!

All true, but too many people tend to forget that the very first game in the world of console generation to have online cross play was Fortnite for Sony’s Playstation and Microsoft’s Xbox.

Also, Sony and Microsoft held back PUBG crossplay in the very momentum in which battle royale was exploding (ignited by PUBG itself)

I don’t disagree with Tim regarding Google or Apple; but I am not throwing those three names randomly. Xbox, Switch and Playstation are console that allowed crossplay for Fortnite (PUBG had to wait behind Fornite for Sony and Microsoft allow crossplay later: Sweeney surely don’t forget friends that helped beat the competition) before anybody else. While Apple argued that their business model is similar to console, he choose to defend Sony,Microsoft and Nintendo: try ask him to lower the 30% for those three… and you’ll see what he’ll say to you.

As for Stram… well, I am a big supporter for Itch and (partially, due to their murky position towards Linux: “all DRM free but your Windows license” it seems); I think Steam need competition (such as PC hardware like SteamDeck where the OEM can customize freely without having to obey Microsoft); in fact, Epic Game Store is rowing in the opposite direction! Many indie are wondering why they should support Itch and GoG “for free” while Epic pay them for exclusivity!

Well, I think that, for developers, Itch and GoG are their “contract leverage” to push Valve around; and the role Epic is taking is:

1. indie developers are less motivated to support Itch.io
2. exacerbated tone Tim is against Linux… it’s pushing Linux developers towards Steam

Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft are fine tho.

Epic profittability is on Fortnite; there will be lot of skin based on Alan Wake franchise and, also, Fortnite ads everytime you launch AW2 form their launcher etc.

…as for Alan Wake franchise itself, well it goes in the epic games store marketing black hole

I don’t see why you may need/wait for my permission: go straight away and link as much relevant content you find, it will improve lemmy fediverse community overall

Google/Alphabet is working its magic to protect youtube from being for what it became successful freely available to everyone from everywhere; so it’s getting difficult to solve a redirect with a clean link. Anyway, I always place the original youtube link in case something don’t work; but still looking for a better solution.

I think GTAV was sold… 3, 5 times to the same person? PS3, Xbox360, PS4, XboxOne, Epic Exclusive, PS4pro, PC, XboxS, PS5, PS5pro

They can arise the price to whatever they want; I am now only interested into Indie or “patient gamers” things; between GTA and CoD franchises the AAA gaming looks more like some sort of onlyfans for a very specific group of paying simp.

jiggle physics daughters, to be precise.

People who say “it was never the case” are misremembering history.

Yes, consoles are sold at a loss initially. However, the price-to-performance ratio (in terms of frames per second) consistently decreases over time, regardless of what console manufacturers do.

For example, the original PlayStation was released in 1994 at a cost of $600. By the end of 1999, just six years later, you could emulate its games on a fairly inexpensive, older PC. In 1994, while the first Doom ran on a relatively costly i386/i486, it was impossible to match the arcade-quality graphics of PlayStation games like Tekken 1 to 3. However, by the time the PlayStation 2 was released, it became feasible to use an affordable older PC with a low to mid-range GPU to exceed the graphical capabilities of any console available at that time.

The only period when consoles were truly cheap—meaning they were sold at a loss—was during the first few months after their release. If you already owned a PC, you could easily surpass the performance of newly released consoles by simply upgrading your GPU.