I’m not an Xbox guy.

But if the PS Portal was $400 and played PS4 games natively plus did streaming like it does now, I would have been all over it. I like my steam deck, but there’s a benefit to games hyper optimized to one system.

As part of its earnings call, Unity revealed that it’ had $1.4 billion’s year-over-year revenue for the quarter fell to $446.5 million from $544.2.

🤷🏼‍♀️

It was less than 6 months ago when I finally cancelled.

Not just every gaming session. Literally every single time I switched games. Not one single exception.

I was on the founder plan for a while because 50/year to keep an eye on the state of the tech wasn’t a huge deal, and there was plenty of stuff my MacBook wasn’t really powerful enough for but could tolerate the lag.

But the whole log-in process was way too much of a barrier for me to actually use it routinely.

You also have to re-log in to Steam every fucking time.

It was wider, longer, and those bars were about the same size, but the pro was 3 instead of 2 compared to the original non slim.

The implied uncertainty was the noise part. Neither was enough to really pay attention to in a living room type environment, so I have no idea.

It’s definitely not smaller.

“AI” doesn’t work.

It doesn’t hold up. It pushed the envelope, but of a very early field with very limited tech.

3D gameplay has evolved way too much. It takes a remake to make the game mechanics still feel fun.

Sell DLC that isn’t just a bullshit cash grab and people will buy it.

Except it’s a strong demonstration that even epic paying for your game won’t make your money back on a well made game if you lock it to a disgusting excuse for a storefront.

It would have been better for the studio not to make the game. It’s identical for the majority of gamers as them not making the game. They still haven’t broken even because they made a bad, anti-consumer decision. They failed because they deserved to fail.

If you’re only for sale on an actively user hostile storefront, you get what you get.

For one year.

They’re not eligible to continue to get security updates after that (even though they’ll still be doing them because businesses will).

They definitely should be treated as super sketchy, because they are, but abandoning a project that doesn’t get anywhere near goals is part of the idea of kickstarter. It’s “this idea takes some minimum investment to make happen, and you (the funder) are willing to spend $X to make that happen if the critical mass is reached”. Abandoning failed campaigns is the core concept.

The U.S. government put some objectives between CHIPS Act recipients and their money, with milestones including completing building projects, securing customers, etc. “Obviously, with elections, you know, nigh in front of us, hey, we want this done,” said Gelsinger, with the possibility of a new presidential regime lighting a fire of urgency.

Imagine having to do something for your 8.5 billion fucking dollars.

Nobody owns an Xbox already.

They were porting to PS because they’re losing money on those games without PS’s audience.

It does nothing to prevent cheating because cheating does not require access to your computer.

The fact that they’re rootkits is not a conspiracy. It’s not a secret that they have kernel access.

It doesn’t just do nothing. They know for sure it does nothing, is not theoretically capable of doing more than nothing to prevent cheating, and that it is a giant security hole.

They just don’t care, because it lets them install a rootkit on your computer.

Nope.

Games pretty much work unless the publisher explicitly chooses to break them.

That doesn’t mean everything is always perfect, but games don’t generally just randomly break on proton. It’s almost all anticheat.

Skyrim is mind blowing.

The actual gameplay feels very different, and locomotion on that scale was more uncomfortable for me than other games (on an original vive). It might be that the performance isn’t stable, as their engine has always had some level of that.

But holy shit, even the whole introductory sequence hits different, and just getting to whiterun feels like an epic adventure. Because of physical space requirements I never got super deep into it, but I could easily see getting lost in it if I’d had more time and got past the slight discomfort other VR games didn’t give me.