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Well, yeah, you are right. They only sell at a loss initially until the hardware is old and therefore cheaper.

Oh yeah, they will still have “cheap” ones, but they will make these “Pro” versions more and more expensive.

PCs are a lot easier to use than they used to be, you don’t have to mess around like you used to, just the initial setup (which is done for you if you buy a prebuilt one anyway).

But yeah, the initial cost puts people off, even though the long term savings are incredible. Ignoring the cheaper cost of games, just from the console online subscriptions over 5 years, you are saving over $400 (and the last generation of consoles was 8 years, so that’s well over $600 of savings).

I’d highly recommend anyone tries PC, you have so much more freedom than you do on a console. There’s a reason the PC market share is growing so fast.

Consoles exist to grift, now they are realising they might not need to sell the actual hardware at a loss anymore.

I agree, but people wouldn’t willingly watch that :D

The game awards is just an advertising show. I don’t understand why anyone watches it.

Like any awards show, the awards are completely subjective anyway, so it’s completely pointless to even care about them, it’s not like an old gaming magazine’s recommendations.

I know it’s easy to say, especially in your case when its a kid, but just dont buy or play games with kernel AC.

These companies only understand money.

Anti cheat should be server side.

A good example of taking something out of context :D

Because a lot of guys online are fucking creeps who want relationships and not just friendships.

And CP2077 was in development for 7+ years, what’s your point?

That they are using UE5 this time, so they can cut more corners in development and have us a nice blurry mess out by the end of next year?

I don’t buy triple A games anymore unless it is really far down the line, so don’t worry. They would have to really surprise me.

I will believe it when I see it because I don’t believe their words at all. CDPR have good PR, but it’s still all corpo bs underneath.

This is already an early trailer, so it seems they are following in CP2077’s footsteps so far.

Seems a bit early.

I don’t use lemmy, so I don’t have to suffer it’s UI. I use Mbin/Kbin and the UI is almost perfect with the settings I changed, I get like 8-9 posts simply laid out with a little thumbnail and the title, no useless features or buttons. Just like old classic reddit, just slightly less compact.

But this “Photon UI” looks absolutely disgusting, I get it might be how the modern web is, but modern isn’t always a good thing, especially when talking about UI/UX.

You are definitely using a tracked delivery service? And has it dispatched yet, or just confirmed order?

Never seen this, I hope they dont try to force the app, then I’d have to contact the seller each time. Ugh.

They send/show you the usual tracking number anyway.

It was so much easier to convince people to use Signal when it had SMS support. I think while Signal needed to drop it, it wasn’t the time yet.

It is more and more true as each developer looking for them shiny games switch to UE5 and dont bother replacing its shitty ghosting and blurry TAA and ML upscaling crap.

Graphical fidelity isn’t becoming more expensive, games (generally AA and AAA that target ‘realistic’ graphics) are just increasingly botch jobs. Games look worse than they did 10 years ago, on hardware that is like 5x more powerful.

What has this got to do with handhelds though? Handhelds will require studios to actually make their games properly again (I hope).