>>361 >Post screencaps I was unable to get any, and while the livestream is on Youtube, the live chat replay is unavailable. Here is an article that has one though, at the very least: https://archive.md/nOfTE >A video game in the 90's also came with a full color manual the length of a small book, and other goodies on occasion. Meanwhile, today's releases don't even have the full fucking game on the disc/cartridge. That's a point that people seem to forget to mention, either willingly because they don't want to seem wrong, or unwillingly because they are too young to remember those times. Sure, it is a fact that $60 was worth much more in 1992 than it is now. But when you bought a game, you had the game. The complete experience that the devs managed to cram into a tiny cartridge by the skin of their teeth right before the deadline. No internet updates, no patches. Extra tracks and characters were not DLC, they were unlockables. Want to play with friends? Grab another controller and plug it in. And later on when games could go online, you just had to connect to Nintendo's servers and you could do it, no extra fee. From what I have seen, this inflation argument seems to be what people are pushing the most (a better term would be parroting). <"Mario Kart would be over a hundred bucks in today's money, so you're actually getting a deal with this one!" But the gaming experience has not improved nor stagnated, it has gotten worse. You get less for your money. So there really is no deal. It's gotten to a point where you have to choose between using $90 to pay your electricity bill or buy a underwhelming video game from Nintendo.

>>363 >That's a point that people seem to forget to mention, either willingly because they don't want to seem wrong, or unwillingly because they are too young to remember those times. A lot of the excuses I've seen come from literal Communists who argue that game prices are "only broken" because of "Capitalism is broken". And I get tired of it very quickly because how do you argue with people who don't understand how economics works and want to live in a fantasy?

>>364 Fuck it man, at this point im already a generation into boycotting the entire vidya system, and tell me they A.) Don't deserve it, and B.) That there is any reason to buy back in.

>>311 The Neptunia Re;Births getting canceled caused a moderate stir, and Inti Creates are probably on the same level.

Switch 2 confirmed to be region-locked!!! https://archive.ph/I9KmI https://www.nintendo.com/jp/switch2/faq/index.html >What is the difference between “Nintendo Switch 2 Japanese and domestic exclusive” and “Nintendo Switch 2 multilingual support”? <The accounts and console languages that can be set for domestic exclusive and multi-language support differ. <For “Nintendo Switch 2 Japanese and domestic exclusive”, only the Nintendo account whose “Country/Region” is set to “Japan” can be linked. The language of the console will also be Japanese only. <If you do not have a “Japan” Nintendo Account, you will not be able to link your Nintendo Account to the console and the following functions will not be available. <Game Chat <Virtual Game Card <Paid Service “Nintendo Switch Online” <Nintendo Switch App <Nintendo eShop <Game News <Friends function <“Nintendo Switch 2 Multilingual Support” allows you to link all country/region The “Nintendo Switch 2 Multilingual Support” allows you to link your Nintendo Account for all countries/regions and select from 16 languages in the console. >Can I use “Nintendo Switch 2” overseas? <Both “Nintendo Switch 2 Japanese and domestic exclusive” and “Nintendo Switch 2 Multilingual” are not guaranteed for use overseas.

https://www.gematsu.com/2025/04/hyperdimension-neptunia-rebirth-trilogy-for-ps4-coming-west-in-2025 The Neptunia Re;Birth games are now releasing on PS4 in the west. Initally, IFI said they did not intend to release these versions westward, only the Switch versions. It was likely a way of nudging their audience towards the Switch since they still believed it was a weeb game haven. But since Nintendo stabbed them in the back, they've clearly started shifting gears. Scar-Lead Salvation is also not releasing on Switch. I think Compile Heart is done with Switch and Calamity Angels will be their last game on Nintendo consoles. Way to go, Nintendo! They were going to hand you these games as effective exclusives in the west and you blew them off and spat in their faces like a feral, drugged up nigger.

>>350 And most people can tell the difference between the two. I think Mark does too, but just pretends not to so he can lump all the posts he dislikes with niggerpill and delete them.

>>356 He definitely does, its just a convenient excuse to lump them together.

>>358 and maintain plausible deniability*

>>276 Thats only iffin ya get caught laddie!

>>277 You forget then. I AM THE LAW HERE.

>>278 YARGH! Blast ye landlubbery ways! Ye done caught me fair and square, hell and tarnation! I regret nothing!

Oh fuck, ENA: Dream BBQ just came out. Kinda pissed it's releasing in parts though. Gonna wait and pirate it.

Assassin's Creed Shadows violates Japanese commercial law!!! So for those not in the know, in Japan, the Japanese Imperial Seal, also known as the Chrysanthemum Crest, cannot legally be used for commercial purposes. This has been a Japanese law since 1880, with an update to said law being issued in 1929 that allows for "some" commercial usage within certain restrictions: https://archive.ph/K7u7b Well, apparently Ubisoft's crack team of legal experts and professional localizers did not know about this circumstance and included a version of said Chrysanthemum Crest in the game and violates Japanese law as a result of this: https://archive.ph/1RgGC https://twiit.com/yamato_shigure7/status/1905310503205044409 https://invidio.us/watch?v=rk4tMCC5EC4 And the kicker is that people were pointing this out weeks before the game even launched: https://archive.ph/IvFOw Ubisoft has managed to fuck up to the point that they actually released illegal contraband.

>>271 Sasuga, Oda Nobunigger.

>>112 Also, do not mistake this as just the opinion and word "one guy". In fact Keene expressed that he sees himself as carrying on the work of Arthur Waley, a person he spends the next chapter expressing his utmost adoration for. For those who don't know, Waley made the first English translations of many Japanese and Chinese texts like The Tale of Genji and Journey to the West, and basically established how the Western public understands Japanese and Chinese culture to this day. And the way Waley did this was by adhering to the same practices many localizers are follow, by cutting out entire portions of the story or changing story elements to suite Western tastes. Another Anon found a PDF of the entire book, so it's the last attached file if you want to read the entire thing.

>>110 Which game got so censored to the point of becoming the industry's most absurd case? Fire Emblem has to be a top tier case of mutilated franchises by both japanese and americans.

>>194 >Which game got so censored to the point of becoming the industry's most absurd case? Depends on what you're asking for. Phoenix Wright is a case of "absurd" localization where, as the series progresses, they translators have to grapple with the fact the games obviously take place in Japan, but they essentially "wrote" themselves into a corner by trying to "localize" the entire series as taking place in LA. With pic related being one of the amusing memes results from this. Then there's also the case of NISA, where they either remove entire portions of games (At best) or brick your console if you dare to play it (At worst). Working Design is another infamous case for being incredibly terrible with their translations, which they only got away with for years because they lied about how the games they translated all "failed" in Japan.