I’m saying that the pricing scheme Nintendo has for the S2 ecosystem is not conducive to pushing volume. This is evident to my other comment from talking to my local game store. Console demand is high, while games, accesories and controllers are not. If the average consumer’s S2 library goes over 10 games average for the lifetime of the console, I’ll be surprised unless pricing changes. The people who have purchased a S2 are holding back on other purchases that usually accompany that purchase. The people who haven’t yet purchased and who will not purchase are likely aware of the prices as well. My rural local TV station ran 2 stories on price increases. Even if not all games are $80 each, the preconception is there for quite a few people that all S2 games are $80 each no matter if you’ve purchased a console or not.

Do you think parents or casuals know that, or do you think that they only know of the TV news reports of the console and game price increases? The biggest story revolving around the Switch 2 before launch was the price increases.

My local game store said demand for console is high; MKW bundle being the most popular. The demand for games, accessories and controllers is not high. I can’t imagine that lack of demand to blamed on anything else other than pricing or uncertainty of the economy.

Yeah, turns out $80 for a game will have people only buying must have games or in my case no games at all.

If you can install SteamOS on it, it’ll probably run better

Yeah but can it run SteamOS?

In this case it was Interplay and Fallout did outlast them.

You must not have heard the dis gamers use for this tech.

Fake frames.

I think they’d rather have more raster and ray tracing especially raster in competitive games.

Still have limited wafers at the fabs. The chips going to datacenters could have been consumer stuff instead. Besides they (nVidia, Apple, AMD) are all fabricated at TSMC.

Local AI benefits from platforms with unified memory that can be expanded. Watch platforms based on AMD’s Ryzen AI MAX 300 chip or whatever they call it take off. Frameworks you can config a machine with that chip to 128 GB RAM iirc. It’s the main reason why I believe Apple’s memory upgrades cost a ton so that it isn’t a viable option financially for local AI applications.

Considering that the AI craze is what’s fueling the shortage and massive increase in GPU prices, I really don’t see gamers ever embracing AI.

If everything I’ve seen is true, then this explains the higher prices for physical over digital.

Well shit, was reading the story where they mentioned the crew and it stuck in my head.

As if i needed anymore reasons to not buy any Ubisoft 2k games. Less than 2 years of online functionality is awful.

Edit: I’m a goober

And 8.1. 8 was a worse experience on anything that wasn’t a native touchscreen.

That makes it even more worrisome. There even being something that is considered illegal information is baffling to me. My initial conclusion was squinix was trying to tell fans how to fan

They already did, then Twitter got sold to Elon and he spilled the beans on all that and proceeded to make Twitter worse anyway. They pressing Twitter is one of the reasons why I think Twitter started going to shit. Fuck Jack and fuck spez

1. Slippery slope.
2. Who is in charge of defining what is hate speech and extremist behaviour? What if it were the people who don’t agree with your definitions is in charge of setting the definitions?
3. Everything is political. One does not simply say something isn’t political and it magically becomes so.
4. Free speech is one of those things that is absolute. You are either for it or not, any encroachment is going to be the anti position. Obviously popular speech isn’t something that needs to be protected.
5. The government asking/telling/coercing a private company to do something to circumvent restrictions against itself is one of the basest tenets of facism. We saw enough of that lately with government doing the same thing with social media. Twitter was going to shit before Elon* and I think a big part of that was exactly doing what Warner is asking wink wink here.

• Elon put Twitter on the fast lane to shit, but he didn’t start it down that path. Fuck Jack, fuck Spez.

It’s pretty blatant with the home screen being open card packs. Game needs some serious fleshing out.

TrueNAS is switching apps from kubernetes to docker. Might wait till October if wanting to spin up something new. I’ve got to figure out how to migrate my TrueCharts apps or find the equivalent when the time comes to upgrade

At this point I don’t want anything to have kernel level access other than the OS and some necessary hardware drivers. I’m not super familiar with MacOS, but do you know if Gatekeeper or XProtect run at ring 0? If they do run at ring 0, would you consider that anticompetitive? I’m almost certain Apple will move or did move to depreciate kernel extensions. Which means it would be the same situation Microsoft wanted to force as you described.

The other argument with Defender is you could at least have a choice to use it or not.