If they want my money, they should have a physical release for PS5.
She left SMS because she needed to go back to Australia to support a parent with cancer.
Nope.
While the marginal cost of optical discs is on the order of US$1, the marginal cost of cartridge media is on the order of US$10. That's on top of the ~US$10 royalty paid to the platform-holder.
No. Public domain is the only true form of preservation, analogous to our system for literary and musical works.
Identities certainly can evolve.
He's probably right.
Absolutely false; Sony's 1st-party single-player games are always playable off the disc build (and generally with only very minor bugs).
MOST games have a playable build on the medium! Have a look at doesitplay.org.
This is untrue: Switch 2 game cards support faster read rates than Switch 1 game cards.
Also, it appears that the 'Switch 2 Editions' will be distributed on Switch 2 game cards, which cannot be used with a Switch 1 system.
I wonder if there are any differences at run-time for these Switch 2 Editions given they may not be recompiled binaries (instead operating via emulation or hardware translation layer)...
I don't think it will be like SmartDelivery. I think the Upgrade Pack will be on the cartridge. There is no mention of a download requirement. It is similar to the new SKUs for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet (with the "+ Expansion Pack" language). Admittedly, I am not 100% sure about this.
MS had a chance to get full retail from me for this and Forza---but they blew it by gimping the physical release for the former and going digital-only for the latter. Now they will get nothing! Such stupid business decisions.
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I think it says a lot that Ubisoft doesn't have enough confidence in its game to ship the whole game on two discs.
In fact, for videogame consoles, it's generally the CPU that taps out first. So, anything sumulation-side, physics, large-scale instancing, etc., can bottleneck the game (including the GPU).
Should have been on the disc...
"500 people passed by my lemonade stand."
You're omitting significant operational costs:
1) Fringe benefits (an additional 30-50%) for personnel
2) Your figure for office space for 200 people is wildly underestimated (probably by an order of magnitude for studios in major cities---especially in the US). Do you realize they need an entire building or floor in a tower?
3) Building operational costs such as utilities and services (and probably one or more optical trunk lines)
4) Worksta...
85 MB on the PS5 disc and 300 MB on the Xbox Series disc --> unplayable without download --> no buy! Stupid business practice!