Recent content by fjtorres5591

There is a reason the MS board tied Nadella's compensation to Game Pass. And why it is being phased out for this year. That incentive is complete. The content pipeline is full and producing at close to capacity. We'll have to wait a couple weeks until the GDC to see what comes next but my best...

Nintendo works because they make money off their hardware, their games are cheap to make, and they still sell tens of millions of their two/three exclusives a year. Also, they operate at the high end of the toy market: for many, their first console is a Nintendo. And that limits the market for...

Minor point: Sony talks about boxes shipped, not boxes sold. Their own brags about "active users" which includes forced *PC* signups, point to a smaller number of active PS5. I've seen estimates as high as 25% warehouse queens. So that 75m? Not a useful number. Now factor in that 70% of user...

What is going on is that the US team was paid in dollars and the China team in yuan. Which is just a bit better than monopoly money while the dollar is getting stronger by the day so in effect salaries go up. Having squeezed all the creativity out of the US crew, they cut them loose "for...

I saw it at the start. Mostly because I went line by line through the settings and didn't rush to get into the game.I had no idea what Totems were but I figured the best way to find out was to let them show up on the compass. As to why not show the whatevers, well they have five difficulty...

Sony had to delist a lot of games recently. And Steam added around 19,000 games last year. MS has said they want to be a bit more open to games not on the windows store and some indies have griped of MS being hard to get in. It's a fine line. The store can be more lenient because it mostly...

The difference isn't how many ad-supported subs each service has, but the regions that can't get PARAMOUNT+ because they can't sell ads to it. And I live in one. Netflix is everywhere. Max, Peacock, even Apple is everywhere and they were here from day one. Paramount+ plus? Try to log in and you...

FOMO is a self-inflicted wound. It's all about self-control and value: STARFIELD I paid for the premium edition because I always get the DLCs for Bethesda RPGs. Not for the five days. AVOWED was a no. The "bonuses" didn't strike my fancy and I can wait a few days. Even weeks or months...

Small publishers love Game Pass day one non-exclusivity deals. There is supposed to be a queue angling to get in. Upfront money, good exposure, nothing to block crossplatfofm. But $1B a year only goes so far. 😇

The math is a function of the number of people that would double dip vs the number of people that would buy from MS *because* of Plays anywhere. If X is the latter and Y is the former, then: O.88X >2Y*0.70 Or X> 1.4/0.88Y Breakeven is just under X=1.6Y Plug in your guesstimate of choice. If...

Palworld can challenge the awarded patents and even if they fail there, the courts might simply award Nintendo a trivial remedy, say replacing the balls with something else and $1 damages. Some judges hate petty bullies.

Fwiw: the game ratings I've seen are proportional to the time played. The worst was a 6/10 over 10 hours that was particularly disappointed by the main quest and found the combat dreary. In contrast the best reviews came from 50-70 hours focused on exploration and side quests. Which is how I...

If you truly think that you are following the wrong news sources. XBOX *is* making changes and, unlike Sony, they are the right changes for the gaming world of 2025-30. In this case the chicken little handwringers are in the wrong, and XBOX management is demonstrably in the right. They are...

All you need to know for the show is that NEW VEGAS revolves around a tug of war between two main factions, the NEW CALIFORNIA REPUBLIC and CAESAR'S LEGION, over control of HOOVER DAM. With a variety of tribes formed from the regional survivors of the war. Inside new Vegas there are three gangs...

Consoles are edging towards the edge of their economic viability: their price/performance is overlapping with "last year's" gaming PCs. This is often ignored in the media because they always focus on the latest and greatest (most expensive) hardware. The real world, as STEAM's annual survey...