@-Foxtrot
"Axton, Kreig, Salvador...other vault hunters weren’t even present aswell so"
It's amusing that you cannot even keep your bias out of the response. Gaige also wasn't present but I guess that doesn't matter since it goes against the point you are trying to make. Borderlands 3 had one male and one female returning Vault Hunter as NPCs and somehow desperate people are making that into some sort of pro-female favoritism. Did...
You claim that it is showing favoritism through the way that Brick, Mordecai, and Marcus were treated yet Moxxi and Tiny Tina were right there with those characters being neglected. I'm really tired of people trying to push their political agenda when criticizing a game. You must have never played Borderlands before - with Commandant Steele as the main villain, Helena Pierce the main NPC opposing the Crimson Lance, and Angel the NPC you talk with the most in the game - if you are upset ...
It is funny seeing the fanboys get upset by the topic of this article when it is just an analysis of Nintendo's business strategy that they laid out last year at an investors meeting. Nintendo themselves said that their business strategy was focused on 3 pillars and all this article is doing is pointing out the fact that Nintendo is not doing great with its other 2 pillars. If you think Nintendo should just focus on gaming consoles you better attend the next investor meeting and tell th...
@Gemmol
"People on here always trying to label it a handheld"
Switch is a handheld and it is still amusing to see fanboys like yourself trying to claim otherwise after the release of Switch Lite. I've noticed you don't make any distinction between the Switch and Switch Lite when talking about sales and by doing that you are acknowledging that the Switch is a handheld.
Why are so many people here upset about something that is optional? If you don't want an empty case, buy the game from the eshop or just throw away the case. How exactly is this worse than all the other digital copies of games sold in physical stores on those hanging plastic cards?
That isn't a sale, it is the new MSRP. Is it that hard for a website titled "myvideogamenews" to actually be up to date with what happened 2 weeks ago?
For $5, I'd buy it if it was offered outside Japan. Nothing wrong with a company offering something for collectors.
You have to remember that the Xbox 360 sales numbers were greatly inflated by the Red Ring of Death, which wasn't corrected until the start of 2008. I think that the Xbox One sales, which are better than most consoles, are the more accurate of what Xbox sales can be and that the 360 sales were an outlier. It would be like just determining the success of a PlayStation console based on how it compared to PS2 sales. Would you say that the PS3, with 87 million sales, was a failure because ...
So? The Xbox One outsold the Wii U in a little over 2 years, and one of those years - 2013 - was just 5 weeks long. Also, for all the fanboys out there selectively looking at sales between Xbox and Nintendo, the "failure" Xbox One has already outsold 4 out of Nintendo's 7 home consoles.
You think that is bad? You should see what happens here when some study calls people who play mobile games "gamers." Hell, people went crazy last week when someone posted an article about calling a custom built PC that plays video games a "gaming PC."
Pandering is a big part of video games, it only has become a problem since the white male is no longer the one being pandered to. Did you really never notice the decades of Japanese video game developers making games staring white males?
Probably because he is a straight white man.
Also, he didn't say it as a bad thing - he was talking about what he is familiar with and that, oddly enough, talking to people who are different is a good way to understand them.
I swear, you snowflakes get triggered by everything these days.
I actually didn't think much of the Share button for the first year of owning my PS4 since I had zero interest in posting videos of my gameplay. Then Destiny came out with the Gorgon's Labyrinth in the raid and I wanted to save the clip of finally making through it so I could re-watch it and memorize the path. Instantly converted me about the usefulness of the Share button. Now I am always using it for something - from saving a video clip of finally beating a Soulsborne boss that s...
This will be as game changing as impulse triggers and HD rumble. You know, those features that nobody talks about a year after launch.
HD Rumble https://n4g.com/news/200551...
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@rainslacker
"Many states where most game devs are in the US now have laws that require paying overtime to salaried employees" That is true and it is also true that in those states there are ways to be exempt. In California for example, if a computer software professional has a salary of at least $96,968.33 then they are exempt from overtime pay. In the US as a whole, federal law exempts computer employees if they have a salary of $684/week or $27.63/hr. So ye...
Are you working 80-100 hours a week for months at a time? Exactly how much extra uncompensated time do you have to deal with in your salaried job? It is amusing how many people think that having to come in on a Saturday or spending 4 hours after work some Wednesday puts them in the same boat as developer crunch time. I bet that the reason that you are ok with the extra time you have to put in at work is because you are not working 80-100 hours a week. Please share with us what your job is...
It is a gaming website talking about something happening in video game development. Crunch isn't being ignored in other professions. If journalists who write about video games are not allowed to report on this in your opinion, than who is?
Also, what goes on in other professions is irrelevant to most gamers. EA getting repeatedly voted worst company in America demonstrates this lack of perspective.
Cyberpunk 2077 has been delayed and is releasing 8 months from now and the company has already implemented crunch time for the developers. THAT is what the problem is. It isn't crunch time if you need it for 8 months - it is an unhealthy, unrealistic, and unsustainable way of developing video games.
Except that they are not making more money. Most game developers are salaried employees which means that they are usually exempt from overtime compensation. In the cases that they are entitled overtime, the company has usually refused to pay the extra money. EA and Rockstar have both settled multi-million dollar lawsuits with employees over unpaid overtime.
Yes, the good old days when most of the video games were made by the Japanese and they almost all starred white males. Now that that pandering is over I guess the best we can do is reminisce about what we lost.