The creator of PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS recently discussed his views on the new 'copycat' battle royale games released since PUBG's rise to fame. We discuss the issues of conflating innovation with imitation, and look at historical examples of both cases in the video game industry.
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.
$100 ?????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????? ???????????????
Yea the pricing for Nintendo peripherals is a bigger joke than the game prices. What the hell were they thinking!
i mean for a piece of slightly redesigned plastic with the same take of the last few years this has written GREED all over it ! Shame on Nintendo.
It's $85. The standard Dualsense is $75. The Dualsense Edge (Playstation Pro controller) is $200. The Xbox Elite (Xbox Pro controller) is also $200. How exactly is $85 so drastically insane compared to those prices?
$85 USD
or $75 at CostCo (same standard price as a DualSense)
Even at $85, you're getting 3-4x the battery life of a DualSense, and it is (by a HUGE margin) the cheapest first-party console controller with Back Paddles.
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.
Having used Dual Sense, Pro Controller 1, and 8BitDo Ultimate extensively, I am pretty much in love with Pro Controller 2. The easy reassignment on the grip buttons is such a big plus, but the soft edge joysticks are the best feeling sticks of any controller I’ve ever used. It’s really an awesome controller. The HD Rumble 2 also finally has some thud and the headphone jack is great with a pair of good phones. It’s worth the slight price increase IMO.
The pro controller 2 for me has the best weight and size it fits the hand perfect like the duelshock 4 did imo
I actually dislike the duelsense controller because of its size but the features are amazing on it.
Still as for the pro 2 no analog triggers is surprisingly something I dont actually miss
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.
quite honestly, i havent been able to stop thinking about it ha.
i keep playing it
Brendan Greene should just shut up, or does he think is game is doing something never done before.... beside running like crap in all platforms even with last gen graphics.
Battle royale between big teams is nothing new....
It’s like PUGB don’t want to compete with other competitors. Like seriously, even more hypocrites that PUGB dev said that they were one who created new genre aka Battle Royal. Sure, they are the one who make Battle Royal very popular but that doesn’t mean they are one who created the first. H1Z1 King of The Hill ,Minecraft,The Culling and other games were there before PUGB was a thing.
mate, your ego is showing
Everyone in games media and their mother said when PUBG Xbox was announced that they better hurry before someone beats them to the punch and puts something on console. Is Fortnite Battle Royale maybe a bit too similar to PUBG? Possibly but the unprofessional and frankly somewhat childish behavior comes across especially tone deaf from Greene and Bluehole when they're calling out games and theirs has so many unresolved issues. It might sit differently with people if PUBG came out on Xbox with no issues. However as it stands now their game is at best rough around the edges at worst unfinished and you're calling out developers out more making a similar but without technical issues and then the players for playing it. It's like throwing at tantrum because people are eating at the restaurant across the street from yours when you can't get the roaches out of your kitchen. How about tending to your own game before you worry about everyone else's.