I understand what you are saying, but the problem is that Americans are the ones who pay the price. Have other countries been screwing American farmers with tariffs for decades? Yeah, sure. But the vast, vast majority of Americans are not interested in suffering economic pain so that American farmers might (emphasis on the might) be able to sell more corn in India in a few years.
That came out after Medal of Honor, but yeah it was among the first, and it may have been the first to have that as the default (in MOH 1999 it was one of like 6 control scheme options).
Shouldn't the first shooter to use the standard dual analog control scheme be on the list? As far as I can tell that was Medal of Honor on the PS1 in 1999, although I'm open to correction if someone knows of an earlier game that had it (and no I don't count N64 games where you had to hold two controllers, haha). That control scheme, which was apparently far from obvious to devs at first, has become a default for essentially every 3D game that doesn't have a fixed camera (assum...
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Obviously that is the main point, yes. I merely bring up that comparison because, ever since the Switch 2 has been even rumored, people have been preemptively comparing it to the Steam Deck, and after the announcement yesterday, people have been hyping its third-party support.
Obviously the absolute Nintendo hardcore will buy it for Nintendo games, without caring about old third-party stuff. But as we learned with Wii U, that group alone can'...
Well, if Switch 2 has any hope of competing with Steam Deck to be a catalog system (i.e. a system people buy as a portable/handheld way to play a lot of older games they have already played), older games will have to be cheaper. On Steam Deck basically everyone who has done any PC gaming in the last 18 years already has a built in library (and frequent opportunities to get games for cheap), so it will be hard to compete with that if older games launch at $60-90 on Switch 2.
Good idea. I know this type of "prove your fandom" system upsets some people, but it at least cuts back on scalpers.
Kids who want this will have a hard time selling their parents on it, and worse yet for Nintendo, there are many kids who have their Fortnite, Roblox, and Minecraft somewhere else and won't even be asking for it.
Let's hope it's more like the 3DS where sales are behind expectations at first and then they take major steps to get things back on track.
Yes but instead of $60 for digital and $70 for physical (prices that would actually make sense given competitors' pricing), they are doing up to $80/$90.
Yeah this has always made sense. I guess I thought the reason they didn't do this was to avoid ticking off their retail partners. When the manufacturers still relied so heavily on retail, it didn't make a lot of sense to say, "hey please dedicate a bunch of shelf space to our games, but also we are going to sell the digital versions at a cheaper price."
It may be now that Nintendo feels like retail is in such a reduced position that they can't really o...
So in the absence of the actual chart, I guess the big takeaway here is that Shadows had bigger week one sales than KCD2, Civ VII, and PGA 2K25?
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I see what you are saying about the PC audience, but I am not comparing it to mass market live service stuff.
I am looking at it compared to things like Atomic Heart, and it seems to have had a much smaller launch than that game.
For whatever reason, the marketing for Atomfall just doesn't seem to have worked.
I hope Atomfall does well on console. Its steam numbers so far are not encouraging.
What were the first year sales of Hi-Fi Rush on Xbox?
Gosh 70% of the Switch's sales would be so good lol. I agree they are going to struggle to get some people to understand why they should upgrade, but I think it will be more of a DS to 3DS ratio rather than a Wii to Wii U situation.
They had also already launched three Uncharted games on PS3 before that lol.
Although in fairness if a studio like Naughty Dog released three games in a single series in five years like they did with Uncharted, fans would lose their minds with "they're milking the franchise and driving it into the ground" criticisms. I mean, people said they were driving Last of Us into the ground after one sequel that came out seven years after the first game lol.
Yes but a huge chunk of that generation just adopts its opinions wholesale from YouTube influencers, plenty of whom had their formative years on the 360, so it is basically part of their personality to think Killzone sucks. So they would make their crappy videos about how mid the new Killzone/Killzone Remake/Killzone Remaster is, and people would just parrot that take.
I'm glad they stopped making Killzone before people started saying "mid," so I am spared seeing all the braindead "Killzone is actually mid" takes that people inevitably would have offered up in lieu of legitimate analysis.
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The influencer thing is frustrating. I get that people have limited time and money and can't try everything, so to a certain degree you have to look at other people's opinions on things to decide how to spend your time and money. But there is definitely a line between that and just parroting one or two particular influencers' opinions about everything, and a lot of people have unfortunately crossed that line in recent years.
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The problem is that those tariffs have been in effect forever, and they are baked into the global economy. I get the "we are just punching back" argument, and it's factually correct, but it's the functional equivalent of getting sucker punched and then waiting five years and punching the other person back. At some point, if enough time has passed, it just feels like a new fight.