https://archive.is/voSD3 Looks like the japanese patent office has rejected nintendo's patent applications that would be used against palworld.

>>1891293 I WANT TO FUCK SHANTAE

>>1891577 same

>>1891542 Horrifying news. The LGBT misinformation Nintendophobe terrorists are infecting Japan. We need to do something. We need to own the Palchuds ASAP.

>>1891542 They might retry it with modifications, but Game Fuck can go ahead and get bent

>>1878892 Imagine putting 60k in fucking PIXELS for a goofy game They might as well had been buying NFTs, useless shit. That's a down payment on a house, instead spent on literally nothing. Based Valve for telling these tards to get real.

>>1888332 Looks fun, hope it actually goes somewhere instead of dying out ?si=7vgd_XGMdM1o0n1b is for tracking, by the way. Ideally I would tell you to use a youtube player instance but I'm not sure if those work again now

Animal Crossing New Horizons{ Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Version 3.0 Update Has been announced https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nODHyw3lgs

>>1893458 should probably mention the 3.0 update is a separate thing for NS1 and NS2

One of the former heads of Amazon's failed gaming division Ethan Evans did an interesting postmortem back in February that's getting a lot of attention now Amazon is winding it down. https://archive.ph/MjRX9 >[Our goal was to ] disrupt the game platform Steam ... We were at least 250x bigger [than Steam] >The 15+ year long attempt to challenge Steam started before I was VP of Prime Gaming, but we never cracked the code, not under my leadership or anyone else's >At Amazon, we assumed that size and visibility would be enough to attract customers, but we underestimated the power of existing user habits, we never validated our core assumptions before investing heavily in solutions. The truth is that gamers already had the solution to their problems, and they weren't going to switch platforms just because a new one was available. Full, non-paraphrased quote in the right image.

>>1893535 As somebody in that article notes, it sounds like they dived head first into PC gaming doing virtually no market research assuming they'd come out on top because they're a big tech company, of course they'd win! You see a lot of sanewashing from normies and sometimes journos who seem to be under the impression corpos can't be pants-on-head retarded, that they must be "not getting it" when they see a company do something profoundly stupid. At least this guy seems to realize the reckless folly this whole ordeal was.

>>1893535 They're completely fucking clueless

>>1893535 That's a lot of words to say "I'm retarded and I don't know what I'm doing" How the fuck do these companies manage to stay afloat with people like that in charge?

>>1893562 The people at the bottom keep it afloat, but. not for long considering how many of these companies are just cracking at the seams now. Third party AAA trash will die in your lifetime, Disney might die in you lifetime.

>>1893581 >Third party AAA trash will die in your lifetime Some of it already has or is at least starting >Disney might die in you lifetime. I hope so

>>1893581 I think things really are dependent on how GTAVI performs. GTAVI will sell gangbusters, but I am unsure how they can make a profit (at least in the first year) given the sheer amount of resources it took to create it and the lack of an install base that can readily play it (current gen exclusive, no PC, looming financial crisis limiting console purchases, console price increases, etc.) If the game is break even, I think it would be a massive signal that if even the most recognizable AAA(A) game of all time cannot meet metrics, they need to recalibrate the model they perform for development cycles and budgets/scale. I think its possibility in being massively successful while still not being profitable is the most likely outcome.

>>1893535 >that entire essay Actually fucking retarded.

>>1893608 Especially the Twitch stuff. Only the biggest boomer idiot would think that every gamer watches Twitch religiously rather than playing video games.

>>1893600 Even if it doesn't sell enough, they won't learn a fucking thing.

>>1893549 Big companies have no interest in learning about the market,they usually try to bruteforce it.

>>1893879 Check this fucking smoothskin out

>>1893458 I hope the next game fleshes out the villagers more. Being able to customize everything is cool but everyone being so shallow as to not potentially offend the player makes talking to then fucking boring.

>>1893535 >steam offers a bunch of features at a decent quality >rather than recreating said features and expanding upon then, we'll invest on marketing and force our way into the market Funny how Epic did the same shit. They thought the Fortnite name alone would be enough to make their launcher popular and went in without a functional shopping cart. They failed to put themselves in the place of the consumer and first ask themselves: "Would I use this product?". Hyperfixating on exclusives and brands doesn't work for PC because it's primarily a multipurpose machine where using 5 different game launchers is gonna be as jarring as using 5 different music programs. Not that Steam wasn't fucking shit when it first came out but it had the advantage of the PC gaming environment not being as popular, allowing Valve to take their time and slowly improve the platform. Back then, Microsoft was actively sabotaging PC gaming to push the Xbox and they basically handed it to Valve on a silver platter. It also helped that Valve didn't had only a single game to lure people in like with Epic.

>>1893936 >Valve didn't had only a single game to lure people in like with Epic. Except they did All the Valve developed Source games were bound to Steam, The Orange Box eased a ton of people into the platform (when Steam was already working as intended after the issues with CS Source and Half Life 2) then you had third party stuff like Garrysmod as well. Epic had fucking nothing but the devs they bought out, after they had already announced their game was coming to other platforms. And they did this after cancelling Unreal Tournamment 4 which was pretty much a community endeavour, they could have literally created a small team of fans to work on it and sell it and update it through EGS, but no, just force the consumer to use your inferior ecosystem! Brilliant!!!

>>1893963 >>1893936 >Valve didn't had only a single game to lure people in like with Epic. Fuck I misread, sorry My point still stands, what a bunch of incompetent fuckwits.

>>1893963 >Didn't Only had a single game Is what he said which is to imply he's saying there's more than 1 game, not that they didn't have any.

>>1893535 I genuinely forgot Prime Gaming was something other than "free" GoG codes.

>>1894187 If you try going on there now, they're really trying to push their cloud gaming service Luna. I haven't heard of a single person I know playing it, but who knows. Unlike Microsoft or even Epic, they never had any stake in the industry to make claim to bring people to their platform.

>>1893936 >where using 5 different game launchers is gonna be as jarring as using 5 different music programs. Is it really? In the past I would have had 5-10 shortcuts for each game on my Desktop, plus a few other shortcuts for emulators. Nowadays, I mostly just right click on the Steam icon on the tray task and select what game I want, or enter on Steam and select the game from there, as I no longer need the Desktop. For GoG gaming, I just use Heroic Game Launcher, which is one of those wrapper applications, that allows you to connect multiple game launchers in one. I imagine, I am not the only one doing it, especially those who use GNOME for their Linux distro, which really hates the idea of shortcuts on the Desktop. Now to go back to the original point, I don't see a big difference between having 5-10 shortcuts on the Desktop, vs 5 Store shortcuts on the Desktop then selecting the game. It's not like you have to log in every time you open your PC, unless you set it like that. Otherwise, you can still go with shortcuts for each game, and they open the game store in the background.

>>1893581 Nepo-men

>>1893458 This is a pretty cool update, it must be exciting for the people who still play the game. Especially since it looks like you can design the rooms in the hotel a la Happy Home Paradise without having to buy the DLC. Personally, it isn't enough to get me back into the game, but at least it's something. Also, why did a janny edit the link so it links directly to jewtube? If the instance wasn't working, there are other ways to work that out without changing it to a direct link. No need to give that site any clicks. >>1893912 >I hope the next game fleshes out the villagers more >everyone being so shallow as to not potentially offend the player makes talking to then fucking boring The developers really dropped the ball when it came to the villagers in New Horizons. Along with being told to make them less "offensive", they failed to realize that part of what makes the villagers interesting is their realism. Despite being bipedal teddy bears and sheep, they would be rude to you if they didn't know you, and some may even still be sort of rude to you after knowing you for years simply because that's how they are personality wise. Putting items in your house or outside can only entertain you for so long; talking to all the residents in your town and helping them is half the fun. Heck, you could argue it is more than half the fun of Animal Crossing. >Being able to customize everything is cool But it was held back and was much more tedious because of the crafting system. They advertised a game where you could design everything how you wished, but in order to get these items you had to hope they popped up in the store or washed up on a beach on a crafting card. Want all the pieces from a certain set? Have fun hoping day after day that at least one of the items shows up AND that it isn't a repeat. Your outdoor garden patio is going to take 6 months of real life time to get completed.

>>1893458 Okay great, now when's the Xenoblade, Astral Chain, and Smash Bros updates? I'd also ask for Mario Kart 8 updates, but we JUST got a annual DLC pack in addition to an outright new game, doesn't matter if it sucks

>>1893535 Confirming what everyone already knew: companies are run by retards who were given their wealth (not earned it) and literally don't know anything about anyone or any business whatsoever. The retardation of thrwoing money away thinking that being big will make you succeed has always failed, but those retards, being the subhumans they are, never learn.

>>1894251 It's sorta like what happened to streaming services. It was convenient to have everything in one place but nowadays you need to log in a bunch of accounts to watch different shit.