kind of sucks that pc ‘winning’ has coincided with ballooning component costs and nvidia trying to secure a software focused monopoly
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Nintendo used its massive marketing muscle to create the market for convertible gaming systems, as much as pushing their own specific console brand. The Steam Deck could’ve easily ended up yet another gadget consigned to niche obscurity because people couldn’t understand why they needed that. Instead it was instantly popular because it filled the “higher-spec, more game variety” segment of the preexisting market.
Another thing I’ve noticed is that Steam sales are more frequent and cut deeper in price than the console stores. So for players that buy a wide variety of games, the higher up-front cost of PC hardware pays for itself over time. In turn the type of player who buys more games will gravitate more and more to PC, and now we’re seeing the devs follow that population
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yeah, but that has always been the case and is currently less the case than it used to be. I think the steam deck always would’ve happened, because valve is a software company and they’ve had an interest for at least a decade in 1) eating away at windows, and 2) turning steam into a short hand for the entirety of pc gaming. ultimately they want to position steam as a kind of soft walled garden, it’s the underlying goal of everything they do. steam deck is very good at that, because it’s both technically open and functionally closed; it works as an advertisement for the necessity of their software
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not sure i have too much to say about the dissolution of the exok team here but it did go very over my head over the last year seeing almost everyone involved announcing they were making some side project or a new game engine etc. so now that is clicking. maddy has been posting jumper levels too which is neat
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Woops did wrong thread.
Platinum Games developing a new Ninja Gaiden. Ninja Gaiden 4
Finally, Metal Gear Rising without the politics, it’s just like christmas.
Ninja Gaiden 2 Black/Remake also announced. Has much better art direction than 4.
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Wasn’t there just a big mod for Sigma 2 that overhauled everything? That’s funny.
French RPG getting freaky with the party members which is kinda nice to see. I cannot remember the title. Clair de Lune 33 or something.
That’s too many passive skills. FF12-ass menu
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NuNuNuDoom looks very static. A lot of stand and parry
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These games look so ugly. Muddy brown era returns, but with lighting and levels of detail that makes everything impossible to readily parse.
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I think the contrast between NG2’s bright readable palette and NG4 really make this clear. You can’t see shit through the clutter and mud
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Raiden X Ryu is some mighty news and a solid reason to find a power cable for my dusty Series S eventually
do the people who like Ninja Gaiden (3D) want a NG game made by a developer famous for engaging in an entirely different track of character action game
this seems like a misreading of the market, even if Team Ninja is still there to sign off on it
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you say that but the 2D one made by the blasphemous devs actually looks really good
did I
well sure but I just meant, similar mismatch