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The DS version of Ni no Kuni included a physical spellbook you’re meant to consult. JP-only, but the fantranslation made it into a PDF.

Under current technology, that speed is very much impossible. Even if your internet connection was magically instant, there are still more bottlenecks in the way.

A high end NVMe SSD can write up to 12 GB/s. So even if we cheat and say the download is a highly compressible zip bomb that downloads instantly, it’s going to take about 42 seconds just to decompress and write it to the drive.

The industry doesn’t care about preservation because they see it as competition. If I download some abandonware arcade game from a publisher that went out of business decades ago and no surviving cabinets even exist anymore, that just means I didn’t spend $80 on a new AAA game.

I dunno what to say to you at this point, but you not noticing the obvious isn’t a good reason for new hardware to not exist.

Games like Donkey Kong Bananza and Kirby Air Riders would never have ran on a 2017 tablet. Nor could ports like Cyberpunk.

You don’t see the heavy perfomance issues in so many S1 games?

And so is the Switch 2. S1 hardware is really showing its age by now.

Did you also complain about the Super NES because there was already a NES?

The Switch 1 does not play Switch 2 games.

Exchange rates aren’t a complete picture of global economies, you really have to look at the average wages for people living there. If the average person in these countries is making substantially less than the average US/UK/EU consumer, just setting prices based on the exchange rate may result in games being unaffordable. So it makes more sense to price in those regions based on purchasing power, even if they’re making less money per copy sold that’s better than making no money by selling no copies.

What? Its purpose is to play Switch 2 games. Same as any platform.

If you don’t own a Switch at all, then I’d say definitely grab one, you’ll have a pretty big back catalog of S1 titles to catch up on. Even for legacy content, performance will be better on S2, and you’ll be future proof for future games, so I would advise getting S2 over S1.

If you already own a S1, upgrading really depends on how much you want new first party games. I bought it for Kirby Air Riders and that alone was well worth the price for me after waiting 22 years for that sequel.

Ordinarily I’d say if you’re not that interested in the current lineup you can always wait until games you really want come out, but with the economy being fucked it’s possible there may be additional price increases in the future. So if you’re at all considering it, I think it’s best to grab one sooner rather than later. I’m half joking when I say I bought mine for Kirby Air Riders, I was also just nervous about tariffs, and I made the right call locking my purchase in at the launch price.

Remember when XB1 was going to be digital-only and Sony roasted it so badly Microsoft had to walk it back?

Sad thing is, I always figured this was going to be inevitable. I just didn’t think it would happen this soon.

Mega Knockdown a turn-based fighting game that successfully adapts the best part of fighting games: throwing rock four times in a row because you’ve gotten in their head well enough to know they’re gonna throw scissors four times in a row.

(note the above is an old clip, the placeholder frames have since been filled in)

If you truly think AI is so great, why don’t you want to disclose it?