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At the minimum it's $630 dollar console with $100+ games that is probably going to be more. That's a lot to pay for to play a few nintendo games when you can get an rog ally or something else new that has steam.

Almost 19% of Japanese people in their 20s have spent so much money on gacha they struggled with covering living expenses, survey reveals in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[–] nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

Boggles the mind that people could spend that much money on subpar games. I guess it's the whole moe waifu thing that's driving it.

Former Arkane designer says Dishonored 2 cost more to make than Skyrim, and while it didn't meet Bethesda's sales expectations, the series' reputation still 'saved the studio' in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[–] nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

They survived, made prey and then it kinda went downhill from there. Now they are making a Marvel action adventure game 🤢.

SuperStationᵒⁿᵉ: The world's first affordable FPGA gaming console. A recreation of the best console of the 90s. Open source from day 1. in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[–] nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Looks interesting but that price is quite high for something that duckstation can do for free. Granted it's hardware not emulation software but I don't know anything about FPGA's.

After the catastrophe of Concord, Sony is reportedly cancelling other projects including a God of War live service game in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[–] nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works 41 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Good, live service games in general are dreck and I would take an experimental single player game over live service garbage anyday of the week.

Assassin's Creed Shadows is delayed again, now to March 20, Ubisoft says, as the company pursues "various transformational strategic and capitalistic options to extract the best value for stakeholders in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[–] nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works 71 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The way they word that is amazing, you can't really fluff that up anymore. Looks like they expect it to bomb.

NetEase kills Marvel Rivals mods as custom skins are hunted down in Season 1 update in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[–] nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works 19 points 5 months ago

It's skin money making time.

Deus Ex and Thief are two of the greatest games in PC history, and now the creators are back to transform the immersive sim in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[–] nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works 56 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Transform it by making....a multiplayer live service game? I don't know about that. I think I'll stick with gloomwood, dread delusion and crt alt ego.

Eurogamer: The 50 best games of 2024, ranked in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[–] nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Another odd list, I wonder if the quality of the journalism is correlated with how soulless their end of list looks like.

[yakkocmn] The REAL Cost of Gacha Games in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[–] nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't get the appeal of these gatcha games. There are better games they are ripping off, I guess the moe characters carry these games for some people.

Valve will be Lenovo’s ‘special guest’ at just-announced gaming handheld event. Microsoft’s ‘VP of Next Generation’ Xbox exec will also attend. in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[–] nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago (14 children)

Lol Microsoft will be there, hard pass on windows or any windows based platform, hard pass in Microsoft in general.