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Chip shortage and pent up demand are the culprits. It doesn't matter how stacked the lineup is with system sellers or not. People don't buy consoles for the game library anymore. And I say that as cynically as possible about the state of the industry.

So many good indie releases lately. This one's from ACE team. Review: The Eternal Cylinder – Destructoid WWW.DESTRUCTOID.COM The Eternal Cylinder review: ACE Team's creature-morphing survival adventure is easily one of the freshest games I've played in 2021.

Is that a different game?

Mobile. Yawn.

I'm patient, so I don't mind. I doubt there will be a trade-in deal as good as this again, so to me, it's worth giving it up now. I have plenty of PC games to play in the meanwhile too. 90% of my games are there, and I was running out of things I'd be willing to play on the Pro regardless.

Bit the bullet. Sold my PS4 Pro for $310. Kind of nuts considering I paid $350 for it years ago. I’m officially PlayStation-less. Fingers crossed I can find a PS5 disc edition at GameStop in the next 6 months or so.

So I saw Gamestop might be doing a $50 trade in bonus for consoles for Pro members. (it's more like $35 extra if you have to sign up) I'm seriously considering bringing my PS4 Pro in. I have $125 in gift cards, plus the ~$300 trade in. That'd be enough for a digital PS5, but I'd probably spring for a disc edition since I have bunch of games physical, no 4K player, and want the Last Guardian at 60fps. So many PS4 games I never finished (or hardly played) will be 60fps now, I think that's worth it. I just hope this chip shortage stuff gets resolved soon. Because I refuse to buy a bundle.

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Nintendo shipped the Wii U controller with input lag superior to TVs at the time. I don't think they'd accept the lag trade-offs with cloud gaming. (and frankly, I don't either) But who knows, stranger things have happened.

Now go get Slay the Spire.

I still think what they’re doing now is way better than selling NES games for $5 a pop. And Switch is portable console with a dpad and such. If Games Pass costs $180 a year MSRP (with online play, on console), perhaps ~$30 a year for an old games library up to the early 2000s is acceptable. If GoG did something like this, I think people would actually celebrate it. But this always comes with the caveat that Nintendo is ultimately doing it to soften the blow of a console tax for online play.

There’s handheld devices that have infinitely cheaper online services (ie: free) that don’t charge anything for better functionally. Even moreso now with the Deck. That should be the larger takeaway. The consoles (and Switch) are all still scamming us. Sony and Microsoft could charge Nintendo’s pricing and it’d still be too much to jump through their hoops.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say Nintendo has every reason to charge more for subscription tiers while their base online paywall tier is still 3x cheaper than PSN/XBL. The more money grubbing move would be to raise the price on their subscription as a whole, using the N64 library as an excuse to. Now with that said… the Deck makes them all look like greedy scoundrels for making online gaming a pay-blocked ‘feature.’ Fingers crossed for some market disruption to come from this.

He’ll yeah, first fully 3D kirby game. No more questions lingering from the 64 era what that’d be like.

DF looked at the remake. It sticks to a consistent 30 other than some occasional jitters when dynamic res kicks in.

They've been updating their engine in the time since Xenoblade 2. The Torna expansion and XBC1 remake hold framerate/resolution much better allegedly.

With XBX, they took everything wrong about the first game's sidequests and made it the crux of the game. Cool world to explore though.

This looks like the game Beyond Good & Evil tried to be in the opening hours, before it got obsessed with stealth mechanics and mini-games.

Thanks for the thread update!

You should really give the reboot a shot. It’s a fantastic, gives me RE4 vibes at its best.

Half Life Silent Hill Soulsborne Persona Last of Us GTA (other than a few minutes with 3) RDR DMC old God of War Call of Duty Battlefield Dishonored Forza Probably more I’m forgetting.

SkateBIRD for XBXS, Switch, PC, XB1 Reviews OPENCRITIC.COM SkateBIRD is rated 'Weak' after being reviewed by 11 critics, with an overall average score of 60. It's ranked in the bottom 18% of games and recommended by 9% of critics. Said this much after trying the demo, but I was hoping they could turn it around. Apparently not. A skateboarding game that controls like crap is bad.

Good then, because 100%-ing Zero Mission wasn't exactly a cakewalk.

They tried to increase it to $0.32 cents a day and people threw a fit. If it’s all just cents on the dollar… Here’s a more practical way to think of the cost. You could have traded in an Xbox One X for a Series X and used the saved Gold fees over a few years to cover it. You could keep doing this every time they do a refresh. I also doubt most people would be paying for Games with Gold now that Games Pass is a thing. The value it adds is pretty much moot. Still hoping they drop Gold altogether one day and price Games Pass accordingly.

Little point to, yes. Even moreso if you've already been gaming on PC and want access to your Steam/EGS/etc library in your living room. This really doesn't address the main argument. It says: only buy a Sony console if you care about playing their exclusives in a timely fashion. (I'd throw pricing into the mix as well) It doesn't say why a Series X is worth full price if you already have an equivalent PC. The idea that you should buy a $500 console strictly for convenience and not library expansion or power is very niche. If his PC is underpowered and out of date, and/or he refuses to move it and hates streaming options, a better argument might be made for buying a Series X. It's not a bad piece of kit for the price. As a semi-duplicate for his PC though...