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Enjoying the Yuffie DLC immensely at the moment. Did you all skip this? It's fantastic, one more linear Midgar romp for old times.

True. I would be in that category, but with Sony's games getting PC ports the landscape has changed. We'd need another chip shortage / crypto boom for me to be optimistic about getting another Playstation without exclusives. I suppose there's always trade-ins to reduce the cost, for however long Gamestop survives.

That would be fantastic, but it could still be throwing down with $400-450 NVIDIA GPUs that did the same thing.

No, I don't. Just that the obvious things to make a PS5 Pro exciting from a value standpoint are the things AMD is behind on. But who knows. Maybe Sony found a proprietary way to make frame gen resolving at 60fps not look and feel bad. That could do the trick to present a case like the PS4 Pro once did.

They’ll still sell some if it doesn’t do anything special. But it is going to be a harder sell if it’s basically a Pro Minus of a leap. I think a lot more people will just say they’ll just wait for next gen, with path tracing and such, than the last go around. Assuming Sony isn’t catching up to that yet.

It needed it for Sony to make good on a stopgap console that would keep people from migrating to PC mid-gen.

Why did the PS4 Pro need checkerboarding? To punch above its weight. It needed it to make the value proposition more enticing. Same sort of deal here.

And the issue comes back to pricing and value proposition. PS4 Pro leveraged checkerboarding to punch above its weight class. What’s a PS5 Pro to do when any similar advantage is already present and popularized?

That’s a similar proposition to the PS4 pro, except the og model in the care struggled at times to maintain 1080p. It’d be a much smaller feeling jump than that for traditional rasterization. Unless you’re all about pushing above 60. (Which FSR3 may be helping with anyways) Meanwhile, you might as well buy a 40 series card if you care about anything RT related for the future. I’d love to be wrong about that.

FF7 Integrade. Beat the Fort Condor mini-game and had a lot of fun with it, even if it was just a mobile-inspired moba lite thing.

Wait, so they're patching the game for performance days after a second demo? This kind of thing makes me just want to wait for the launch.

As I’ve said before, they’ll price this thing something awful. The worst part is it might not even be worth that price. Sony made some big strides with AMD with the PS4 Pro, so much so that it ushered in the future of rendering in many ways. That’s likely not happening again with what NVIDIA has brought to the table. I was once apprehensive about buying a PS5, because I thought games would stress the spec too much once a Pro model arrived, and beforehand with RT and UE5. That’s already been a problem, especially with games relying on FSR2. I almost waited for this. But now, I feel I’d be crazy not to spend money on a $1k rig as opposed to a $600 or $700 AMD console. Keep the old PS5 for stutterstruggle games, get a Switch 2 for Nintendo, play everything else on PC. Including Sony’s stuff.

It’s always been that way for Nintendo if I’m mistaken, going back to Yamauchi. They’d rather sit on cash to weather storms. Maybe because their business is not as diversified as their competitors.

Mario Odyssey could be a great choice to get you out of a funk. I’m having fun personally just exploring my indie backlog at the moment.

Or wait until there’s a sale like Mar10 day before spending $60 on games several years old.

Japan: Nintendo is the richest company with over $11 billion in cash MYNINTENDONEWS.COM Nintendo is currently the richest company in The Land of the Rising Sun with an exorbitant 1.7186 trillion yen which is around $11.44 billion. This new data is according to Toyo Keiza…

How else you gonna shit talk without your parents hearing?

Good, typing skills are important! Imagine when that becomes a plus on a resume.

Yes, and with Switch they found a way they didn’t have to. It starts with a solid game people want at the launch.

This argument was used against Nintendo when the 3DS launched. The Switch decisively dispelled the idea that they would fade into irrelevancy with the rise of smart phones and tablets. If Switch costs were a hard pill to swallow, Nintendo wouldn’t be succeeding and thriving. Sort of like asking why Disney is still relevant to kids today. Bringing new kids in is at the core of their buisness, and they make moves to ensure they’re part of the conversation and public consciousness. And any platform that sells as well as Switch is going to slow down eventually. How long has it been now?

Not if the person is buying it for Nintendo exclusives, or prioritizes a child friendly ecosystem. The Switch doesn’t even have an internet browser. I don’t think Nintendo competes in a vacuum, but this is an area where an apples to apples comparison with more powerful consoles, largely marketed on M-rated games and released well after the Switch launched, just doesn’t work. And arguably, there’s never been more of a reason to own a Nintendo something with Sony and Microsoft’s attitudes towards exclusivity shifting. PC + Nintendo appears to be the most sound choice right now.

Probably would have been a bit higher, but maybe not so much that it would make sense. Certainly not when compared to the impact of the Switch Lite as a low entry model. Look at their game prices and their meager discounts. No one is saying they’re fools for charging what they do.

Intergrade is short, and Fort Condor is a fun little diversion. No reason to skip it based on what I’ve played so far. Like the rest of the package, it’s free if you preorder Rebirth.

For it to be manslaughter, a law would need to be on the books to warrant miscarriage/failed implantation/etc as criminally negligent homicide with enough directness for culpability. Ultimately, its part of our reproductive biology: humans can and often do die in the early stages of development. An embryo may not implant. Miscarriages happen. Many people don't decide to sympathize with it as a child at these points. Which is okay, as long as that perspective isn't turned back around into an argument against nature. As for control, you'd truly have to ban unprotected sex to be consistent with the manslaughter idea. And you basically doom your society with that in theory. Which is unhinged, but also not a pro-life argument. I could also draw an analogy to doctors who perform life saving procedures. There's a high burden of proof to be charged with malpractice if they lose a patient. If they can be legally protected, for good reason, I don't see how it makes sense to go after women who suffer a miscarriage. Anyways, I’ll be bowing out here because of the past. Just wanted to offer this perspective.