Yeah, that’s kind of why I asked. Gamestop propped up their numbers by bundling the magazine with their discount card. Game Informer wasn’t selling on it’s own merits, so I think the chance of it rallying with it’s old staff is slim.

EDIT: removed the random Apple tangent

so is this an Atari situation where the name is being used but everybody behind it is different?

Doesn’t work on Nintendo, for some reason. Mario Tax expanded to anything first or second party, so the best you’ll see is $20 off new price on Mar10 for the games that came out 5 years ago. It’s like every retailer came to the agreement that Nintendo games don’t depreciate.

I hate timers on games that give you little guidance. People claim that Fallout 1’s timer is too lenient, but I ended up replaying (and failing) the game twice and still not coming close to finding the water chip. Also, the game constantly reminds you “We’re all dying, hurry up! Every minute you take is an other life lost!”. Same reason I dislike Lightning Returns.

Everytime this game got ported, I’d retry it. I’d get over the bridge, get into town, fight the pirates, earn the boat… and get completely lost.

I wonder how this compares to OpenShot.

I use OpenShot to trim stuff that LosslessCut can’t properly manage, but whenever I use OpenShot I seem to crash it at least once.

you made me picture a Back to the Future remake with a Tesla Truck as the time machine…

I always thought UHD used a different laser than standard blu-ray, but only just found out it was a trick of h265 encoding and triple layer discs.

Based on the mini-BD format, assuming triple layer, the upper limit would have been around 24GB.

Now you’ve got me curious what capacity a UMD form factor could achieve with a UHD Blu-ray laser.

Yes/No. Both Sony and Microsoft have quality control processes to ensure that whatever is published is going to play on first entry of the disc.

That said, publishers use A LOT of workarounds. Day 1 patches to “finish” the game. Download code inserts. And as of recent, mandatory online server check-ins. As far as I’m aware, Nintendo is the only one who allows publishing half the product with required download.

I’m afraid to find out how many people are still downloading OpenOffice, thinking it’s the same software they heard about back in 2010.

It’s right there in the link. It sold more than Witcher 3, even though it did the wrong thing by releasing early and buggy.

…and they followed it with Cyberpunk 2077’s disastrous launch but ultimate success. So I wouldn’t hold CDPR as a high standard.

exactly. Thank you.

Back in 2012 an affordable $40 flash drive was 1GB. Now $40 gets you a 512GB.

$90 would have netted you a 2GB full-size SD card. Now you get a 1TB MicroSD with adapter

$80 would get you 1TB in spinning rust in 2012… now, with $80 you get… 1TB or if you stretch the budget a little, 2TB. But what if you own a bunch of games like Ark Survival Evolved that take up 435GB of space? Shell out $649

Back when I bought the 1TB, I installed the entire steam library I owned onto it. Now I can’t get more than 6-7 new titles installed. I’m ignoring how insanely fast drives have gotten over the years, but my complaint is storage.

EDIT: For the sake of comparison outside my complaint of SSD sizing, spinning rust at $80 today is just 4TB at a lower 5400rpm instead of 7200rpm.

After the “We’re going to delete any cloud captures older than 90 days… oopsie we deleted your local storage”

I’m going to delay updating as long as possible regardless.

fair point, even the MicroSD market would target the mobile user and not so much a desktop.

One step above what I had back in 2012? What exactly does that say about progress in capacity?

I refuse to believe there isn’t much demand for it when we have MicroSD cards approaching 2TB.

I just want bigger drives… I feel like we’ve been stuck at 1TB for at least a decade.