"Microsoft is working to unify its desktop, mobile, and gaming platforms, but one vocal critic thinks this could come with some frightening consequences for the open legacy of the PC."
A handful of small redesigns and a pair of back buttons make Nintendo’s Pro Controller for Switch 2 a worthy upgrade.
I love this controller. Feels so nice in the hand. Plus the battery lasts for days, it's crazy.
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Yea the pricing for Nintendo peripherals is a bigger joke than the game prices. What the hell were they thinking!
The thing is, over the past decade, third-party controllers have really stepped up. You can often get better quality, more durability, and stronger performance for half the price of first-party options. Meanwhile, controllers from Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft have become increasingly mediocre, expensive, fragile, and not particularly impressive across the board. What makes this especially noticeable with Nintendo is that they’re surprisingly open to third-party hardware. That openness ends up highlighting just how much better the alternatives are.
Pretty much most things by half a dozen of chinese manufactures. Like, 8bitdo, Gamesir, Machenike, Gulikit, Flydigi, Manba, EasySMX, etc.
The exception would be really low tier stuff by those companies... those wouldn't be better, they would be about the same quality. But more durable.
I have the original pro controller and TBH, I don't use it as much. I'm mostly using the Switch in handheld mode with the Hori Split Pad Compact Controller. I also never use the back buttons to program anything so I will not be buying this one here, so that will be $85.00 in my pocket 😂
Techland wants to switch to a shorter development cycle of three to four year at the most for its games, starting with Dying Light: The Beast.
Very good dev length for a AAA/AA game I'd say. Companies need to set an aim for this range. 1-2 is too little, I believe 3-4 is perfect. Any more is too much. Games don't need to be these gigantic games full of a crazy amount of content. Just make a good game.
Legendary gaming auteur Hideo Kojima heaped praise on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, calling it “ideal” for one significant reason.
Greatness knows greatness. Simple as that. Expedition 33 is a masterpiece, built with a smaller team and with a smaller budget, blowing ubisoft out of the water. It doesn't matter how many devs you have and how much money you throw at it, great studios like Sandfall Interactive will always overcome you.
Ideal are you opinions being vacant from any discussion that is not about your own cringy universe Hideo.
The master of Vanity Tech Demos is here to tell us what a good game is. ooooh kay. It's pretty dang obvious without your 2 cents desperately needing relevance. This is just like his GTA grovel a while back. Yuck.
Hahahaha Sweeney keeps moving the goal posts: "During a fireside chat today at the GamesBeat Summit in Sausalito, California, the Epic Games founder and overseer of the Unreal Engine game-making tool also pushed back against critics of his own who think he’s exaggerating the threat of UWP."
he attacks the platform before he knows anything about it, is given reassurance and is shown that it is an open platform at the build conference and then moves his goal posts even more. Enough already, stop with the FUD Tim, we get it, you are fine with STEAM and UPLAY, even your own launcher, but when MS says this is what we are doing and its going to be open you fly off the handle. Let the Platform speak for itself, you are a developer and you have been given access to exactly what MS said they were going to do. Please enlighten us where and how they are not delivering on what they promised about the UWA and UWP instead of fear mongering and moving goal posts.
Damn, Sweeny's really trying to turn this into a crusade, but he's still just throwing out 'what if' theories, along with the old 'frog in boiling water' metaphor, and his comparison to Facebook is downright insulting... Microsoft don't need to appease advertisers and their shareholders aren't likely to succeed in any attempt to force such an overtly counter-productive policy. I can't imagine they were happy about Win10 being given away for free, yet here we are.
There's a band called 'Killing Joke', who've been writing songs about the 'imminent' apocalypse for the last 35 years... nuclear war, the Mayan calendar, overpopulation - you name it, they've feared it.
When the millennium was approaching they scampered off to Iceland, where they'd built a bunker to wait out the long years of chaos that were supposed to start with Y2K... when that didn't 'work out', they hired Dave Grohl and made a great album (global warming couldn't have come along at a better time).
They're one of my favourite bands, but even I know they're crazy... some people just have a habit of anticipating worst-case scenaros - which can be a useful quality - but they're wrong more often than not.
This whiney self absorbed tool needs to STFU already , go sell the rest of Epic to Tencent & go away