if you claimed 1% of the total gameplay hours are multiplayer, you’d be lying, because there’s no way anyone actually believes that. It’s a single player open world with a tiny bit of online flavor. Exactly zero of your three games require a subscription on PlayStation, because the free to play nonsense doesn’t either.
The fact that people sell trash that doesn’t work isn’t evidence that it works.
I’m not exaggerating even a little. I’d rather never play a game again than deal with handheld Windows.
Using Elden Ring as an example of a multiplayer games is a joke, right?
Luigi’s Mansion, just like everything else Nintendo makes, made their money from adults. It’s not a sign that somehow Sony’s bigger, better library can’t support a handheld. 5 years from now, a handheld PS4 would still be a better option at launch than the switch was when it did.
They’re not. Windows is not functional for a handheld, period, and not paying for a subscription when no games let you use Linux isn’t relevant.
Kids are an afterthought at absolute best to the Switch’s sales volume. It is a success because of adults, and PS4 would be a success because of adults. It doesn’t need to sell to a single kid for it to be completely outside the realm of possibility for it to not be an immediate, runaway success.
I promise you that a handheld PC isn’t a consideration at all for the majority of the customer base we’re discussing. Steam deck is “not that bad” compared to how awful Windows is, but it’s not anywhere in the neighborhood of a console for ease of use. The gap may be shrinking, but it’s still massive. You have to choose between Windows, which is complete and utter dogshit for every use case, but awful even compared to anything else for handheld gaming, or Linux, where you don’t have to worry about that subscription for online play because every game those people want to play will block you.
The steam deck is not capturing console gamers. It’s a niche device for tinkerers. It is not and will not be competition in any meaningful sense. It could be so powerful it plays games the PS7 won’t be able to and still have no impact whatsoever on a handheld PS4’s sales.
Non-AAA games aren’t “kid’s games” and joycons are the least durable piece of hardware ever manufactured. Kids aren’t why the switch is a success.
The switch was way more dated than a PS4 will be. Jaguars was shit, but not that shit.
Handheld PCs aren’t meaningful competition for the majority of console buyers. The console experience isn’t “something they put up with”. It’s a massive value add by removing any need to ever think about configuration, optimization, compatibility, etc.
People are paying $200 just to stream PS5 games. $400 to play PS4 games and still stream PS5 games will sell every unit they can manufacture. Unlike the switch, PS4 is actually viable for most large scale open world games.
PS4. It’s that simple.
That can absolutely be done, and has a huge library, including many current games that don’t need the high power of current gen. It can also stream PS5 games. Just use the modern controller setup and you’re good to go.
I have a couple authors I intentionally subscribe to, along with this and that other thing.
There are definitely bad faith mailing lists, but there are plenty that aren’t.
Ignoring that that’s complete bullshit, balatro doesn’t even pretend to gamble.
You’re not gambling🤦♀️
Gambling is what kids shouldn’t be able to do.
They’re complaining that it doesn’t do fake GaaS treadmill bullshit.🤷🏼♀️
I would genuinely look at a parent saying their kid isn’t old enough to learn poker hands exactly the same as if they said it about cribbage or rummy.
It’s nonsense.
There’s no possible rational standard where balatro could theoretically be age restricted.
It’s dressed up solitaire.
There’s no reason for the rest of the generation. It will just kill sales for those games. The “series” consoles are a completely lost cause.
If they want exclusives as a strategy, it needs to be at launch of the next generation. Until then even short timed exclusives just cost them money.
So I’m not big on most of what passes for self improvement material (I think the self help genre is almost entirely trash), but anyone who makes a habit out of trying to make themself better is moving the right way.
It’s worth noting that there will be people who hear the label and react badly, though.
I would argue that the short term pain is worse than hiding it and being with someone who doesn’t know you and can’t understand you, but I can’t promise it won’t be a dealbreaker for someone you really don’t want it to be, either.
The issue is behavior (which is the primary way most of that is diagnosed to begin with).
Acknowledging the behavior and making a deliberate attempt to prevent/improve it is something I would see as a positive sign compared to the behavior without the same steps. Getting a diagnosis (and some type of therapy) is a good thing.
If you consistently treat me badly, the label wouldn’t be why I left. If you make mistakes, but make the regular effort to be aware of them and improve, the label doesn’t matter either.
It kind of sounds like a 3 player rogue lite.
There is nothing about this game that resembles theft of anyone’s IP in any way, and in a just world an absurd suit like this anywhere on the planet would result in literally every piece of IP a company owns (piercing corporate bullshit) being released to the public domain in the entire world permanently.
It’s for sure not a legitimate process.
DMCA doesn’t entitle you to force a service that complies with DMCA requests down.
It doesn’t really matter, though. The only cause of companies pulling their content is Netflix’s success. There was no way Netflix could have prevented it.