Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

Once upon a time Sony said Nintendo isn't their competitor because Sony's customer are gamers into high definition gaming but switch players don't care about high definition graphics. Their customers don't overlap.


Imagine how things would change when: 1) Switch 2 is capable of running Cyberpunk 2077 level of games decently. 2) Xbox merges with PC platform PLUS a much better game pass with many AAA games available on day 1.

Sony needs to play a new card for the next generation IMO. Because I see a portion of Sony's customer leave for other platforms if this trend continues.

Im kinda sad.

Ive been working the last two or three months trying to develop and record a very fast passed walkthrough in Palworld.

Despite taking so long due to how this game relies on RNG and many and many restarts to find the optimal route, I was doing quite well after developing the first leg in this walkthrough, now figuring the best route mid to pre-endgame, when I got the news that the new update will be released next 25, potentially changing lots of things.

Given the changes could obsolete my walkthrough before it is published, Ive decided to halt any new attempts, waiting for the next version and restart over.

Gonna see if I can learn some quick video editing while waiting.

Still worried how the changes gonna impact my walkthrough, as I pushed some limits to speed things up as much as I could

It's not like PS5 has that many strong exclusives either. Astro bot and demons soul remake are 2 bigger ones maybe, the other ones are either less popular games or "wait for 1 year for PC complete edition" games.

If the lack of exclusives is killing Xbox, then it could eventually weaken PS the same way unless things change.

Exclusive includes exclusivity window.

There is no other platforms. You have PC Masters and the consoles peasants. Once the peasants got rich enough, they move to PC. I should get th steam deck because it's way better than the Nintendo switch but I don't play console games so might as well stick with my laptop.

The Japanese can keep going because they can only make hardware so they can keep the hardware race vs PC while Xbox is essentially a PC running Windows in a Box. At some point, Microsoft just think this is stupid and scrap the whole thing.

Japan has a fairly rich economy behind the console hardware because they get a ton of support development as well as good degree of sales.

You don't often see Chinese, Korean and Taiwanese games on consoles but you see a lot of them on PC.

People who used to be teenagers but are now over 40 and don't need to ask dad for the money.

They pretend its for their own kids instead.

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Fun fact, UMC (A Taiwanese semiconductor company) actually made their own console in 90s, which tried to compete with SNES but failed due to being released way to late. It's called Super A'Can, you can Google it if you are interested in this forgotten part of the console gaming industry.

It still had couple of legit console games on it back then though.

As for why Chinese/Korean mostly release PC games, that's because MMO and mobile games are the biggest genre in those regions since 2000. Single player games market size aren't even close until recent years. So naturally dev will gravitate towards PC and mobile because that's the best platform for MMO and mobile gacha.

As soon as they started making high budget single player games like Stellar Blade and Wukong, they made them available on consoles too.

So it's really the genre and target audience that will determine the platform, not region that determine the platform.

Edit: Actually, even Genshin Impact has console version too. And for very long time it's one of the more popular "PS5 game" in Asia lol. So I don't think Chinese dev avoided consoles, it depends on what their customers prefer to play on.

Well, im at ch129 of Rent a Girlfriend, I would say Im having decent fun reading it.

Kinda feels like Love Hina, or Yume de Aetera, that is another of my favorite of all time.

This serie is already at 350+ chapter. A whole lot of things can still go wrong, but so far, its pretty above average imo

To you.. and your opinion, but most dont care about that especially if they already owned the game multiple times. It isn't even illegal if you extract the files yourself to put on an emulator. It is just a fact that there are many ways to play those classic games that don't involve Nintendo.


I do too, but they are adding them slowly. I was very surprised to see one of my favorites on there with trophies, Wild Arms 2. They are adding the RE2 and 3 games soon. Altho a lot of those don't have trophies which is annoying, it can't be that hard to add.

I still enjoy my PS5. PC requires a lot of tinkering and so does the steam deck. Sometimes you just wanna sit down play and thats it, not wonder why something randomly doesn't work or is goofing.

Finally getting a chance to have these in 1/6th scale, everything seems limited edition now.