My Walkman from the late 80’s still works like a charm. But I can see the impracticality of cds over cassettes with the discman, considering increased battery requirements, and how delicate they would be
Okay, I'll give you that. Atelier Ryza only has the bare minimum of "graphics settings" that must be configured in the launcher. If you want 1080p resolution at borderless fullscreen, you gotta go into the .ini file, manually set the resolution to 1920x1080 windowed, and install Borderless Gaming for that, because if you have the game in windowed mode, the launcher automatically caps your resolution at 1600p! (Ryza 2 has graphics settings adjustable in-game and somewhat functional borderless windowed, which is a miracle by Gust's standards.) I've been playing Automata with the fan patches for so long that I forgot those were never updated into the game.
Forget big box physical, PC releases are always an afterthought anyway. Did you mention it's damn near impossible to mod anything from the Microsoft Store? So if a dev puts out a complete pile of shit, the 5% chance fans will fix their game goes down to 0.05% because the architecture and muh DRM is fucking impossible to work with? And that the Microsoft Store version of Phantasy Star Online 2, which came out months before the Steam version, is known to delete 80 gigabytes of essential game files each time you reboot your PC, among other technical issues?
Yeah you would have to deal with Steam's BS which is more or less falling in the same line and affects the same % of games so there's no real difference. Evenicle 2 got banned worldwide and many euro regions are starting to get all adult games banned on the platform with germany being the first. Porn games always invite this so it's not surprising it's why they were originally banished to their hovels when they started getting notoriety in the 80's.
The censorship affects a very small minority of games, and being that no Japanese developers have jumped ship from the PS5, it's pretty much business as usual. It could get better or worse because that's entirely dependent on just how big the console market gets in China and that's what everyone is gunning towards currently. Majority of devs will go along with censorship policies because it allows their games to get into larger markets. And China will never not have a censorship policy in place until it's renamed as Greater Taiwan.You can't mod shit on the PS4, either, but Japanese games are developed with the PS4 in mind, so they come out more polished and less in need of mods. On the other hand, Sony is also demanding that Japanese games released in Japan get censored according to Commiefornian standards, and those kind of changes end up in all versions of the game...
You just can't win.
I want to see the storefront wars heat up, we have not yet begun the retardation now that Microsoft themselves are opening up a direct competitor to steam. Epic took potshots and caused legal retardation, Origin is still kinda hanging around, but there needs to be a great fire lit under the ass of PC gamers and when shit like Patches and Patch Notes become digital platform specific, we know we're in for a wild ride of pettiness and corporate shanking the likes of which have not been seen before. It's been ages since we've had a good Mac vs PC fight and this one is shaping up to be far dirtier already because of how embedded both corporations are in the PC World.
If the storefront doesn't have achievement support, a variety of games, sales and a robust UI, you've already lost.
They're going to be tying the xbox achievements to the PC store. They've even rebranded the whole Xbox network for this. They're supposed to be giving out specific branding next for Xbox Exclusives and then Xbox Partner Exclusives to promote the fact that if anything is coming to PC, the Microsoft version will be the superior one. This is why they're having paid exclusivity deals with patches and DLC, they're not going to allow Steam or Gog have the games be as well supported.
Why did they do that? Xbox Live was a perfect name.
Because it's not just on consoles anymore but it's the PC platform as well and eventually mobile for some games. They're calling it the Xbox Network because it's a whole new network and everything is getting tied to some form of Microsoft proprietary software. It's why they're wanting to purchase Discord too, they plan to have it be the defacto chat of the whole thing.
We already got that conversation over the matter of censorship many times before, especially on the Culture War thread, but guess you can't stop your true nature of the disingenuous Sony fanboy in the end.
Japan doesn't play consoles though and are almost entirely been doing handhelds. The PS4 and PS5 didn't do well not because of any company policy, it's because the hardware isn't portable. All those things you cited are hot takes from japanese twitter which are about as reliable as /pol's social media takes. The majority of Japanese developers go with consoles because they're a much larger market outside of japan to begin with. Koreans, Chinese, and Westerners outnumber all japanese purchases by a large margin, they're also all way larger markets. The only reason why companies like Capcom, Atlus and Fromsoft did as well as they did was due to the non-japanese. Companies like Falcom have also been risen to prominence and their series have become mainstays in western RPG canon as well.
The failure of the Vita in the west is still absolutely nuts to me. In terms of power it completely shits all over the 3DS and its initial control scheme was way more robust; the 3DS wouldn't get an integrated second analog control until the New 3DS years later, and even then said second analog sucked. You need only look at the release of MGS3 on both devices and it's practically night and day. By all rights, the Vita should have been the victor between the two.
Yeah pretty much, they're pretty much ground zero for any and all actual gambling mechanics that pop up elsewhere.
Nintendo really didn't support the 3ds at the beginning, the Vita really served no purpose because everything wound up doing better on the PS4 in the end. The Vita was very redundant for the majority of Sony's markets because everything it did the PS4 could also do outside of being portable. And a sizable fraction of portable users don't take the thing outside their home because it occupies the same space as their phone and that's what they're going to pick over a game machine. Remember Sony released the PSTV which was a console Vita and nobody really picked it up because they would rather have a PS4. Even games that started out on the PSP/Vita like Legend of Heroes and Monster Hunter wound up doing far better on consoles, so it makes no sense to really fund shit if it was going to start infringing on your main event. if the graphics are going to look on par with a console, you miught jsut as well release the game on a console.
