It costs inconsequentially more to host large files, sure, but the cost is usually on the consumer vis-à-vis their ISP to stream larger files.

You are wording this like you are disagreeing, while still agreeing with what I said.

Why should quality be a tier?

Because it costs more to stream 4k content than lower quality content?

Not agreeing with it, but the justification is easy to make.

Being the market leader, Sony will have a much harder time making larger acquisitions than MS did, and this ABV merger didn’t exactly breeze through.

It’s hard to block mergers based on a company involved being a monopoly if none of the companies involved are monopolies or will become monopolies.

Regulators have to come up with a different set of rules to block “large but not monopolistic mergers” without also just effectively protecting the actual leader in a given industry from competition.

That’s not what “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” means. You just came up with three numbered items to correspond to the fact that there are three words in the phrase.

That applies to open software standards, what does it have to do with buying cash cows?

It has no real meaning anymore. It’s now a phrase people throw around as effectively a meme. You won’t get anything but a wrong answer to this question.

IIRC they did sign the deal that let’s the continue to get releases for a couple more years…

It is ten more years. If Sony isn’t able to come up with a decent alternative in a decade, well, I won’t exactly feel sorry for them.

“as possible” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that statement.

You have the PSVR2 which is comparably priced but requires a PS5 console. You have the Valve Index which is $1k.

So, it may not be “cheap” but it’s definitely cheaper than some of the alternatives.

Support real journalism.

Who is doing that?

Only problem was that I forgot to get a memory card so I couldn’t actually play the games that my coworker gave me, but hey it works!

That’s an interesting take on “works” for a game console. Being able to play games seems like a pretty important piece.

What information in the leaks do you think prove how dangerous Microsoft is?

I’m not really talking about preferences. I’m asking more about the niche that games like Skyrim/Fallout/Starfield fill. If it is so simple to just make “Skyrim but better” or “Starfield but better” then where are all the games from other developers that are just that?

Or from another angle. Where is the Path of Exile for Skyrim?

It’s like that that old programming joke:

The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time.

I actually backed the original Kickstarter.

If it’s close, when is the release date?

The small improvements they have made in Starfield are alright, but it feels like the bar was set with Skyrim and they can’t even really match something from 12 years ago.

Or maybe game development is just hard? Why haven’t other “better” developers created a game that improves upon Skyrim?

Look at Baldur’s Gate 3. It’s “small improvements” to the type of game that Larian has been working on for many years at this point.

Bethesda’s seeming disdain for anything that could be considered a fun and seamless mechanic is frustrating.

Or that the technology available doesn’t really make this type of setup reasonable?

Star Citizen is trying to do this and it’s been how long with how much money spent?

Would Starfield be a better game if they sacrificed the quests/content/companions and just made a game that was more like Elite Dangerous or No Man’s Sky?

That’s fun, that’s what I wanted, and I don’t think it’s really expecting that much.

I mean, CIG has been trying to make a game that does what you want for the last 13 years and they aren’t close yet. Maybe it’s not as easy as you want it to be?

No one is really posting content to any of the alternatives really. Maybe if you are really into crypto-hype or other very niche topics, there will be a little content. But not much.

To be honest, I never use Wordpad.

Either I just need to edit something quick, where Notepad excels, or in going to use just about any other option for text editor or word processor.

It’s surprising to see how much attention this is getting. And I can’t help but think how many people commenting about it actually use it to any real degree.