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Yes, setting game from the console doesn't work properly either, despite working fine in kexQ1.

Just finished it there now - fantastic piece of work. Perhaps a little more artistic licence than I would have asked for, but the maps look fantastic. The Guardian fight was insane. Just one issue - I had to use \map psx/base0 from the console to start the game as there didn't seem to be any other way to get into it via the menus. This had the side effect of skipping the intro. EDIT: Creating a .bat file seemed to fix this, despite the fact that it didn't initially for some reason.

I hope you're right. Re: the Patreon question though - from what I can tell, Ryujinx weren't paywalling compatibility fixes in the same way Yuzu was, although the top tier did mention early test access. If that was what Nintendo got them on, it does cast doubt over other things such as FPGA core development, since several of those dev teams use a similar model (the FPGA scene has its own drama right now, but that's another story...).

I refer you to my March 5th post. My concern is long-term.

Aaaaaand Ryujinx is gone. https://steamdeckhq.com/news/nintendo-switch-emulator-ryujinx-shut-down/ Seriously, fuck this company.

I'm on a 12900K and a 3060TI and it happens to me too. Also happens with Quake II.

The PS3 had games.

Only if you're building a higher-tier gaming PC. Advances in graphical fidelity are becoming less and less pronounced. A £700 PC still grants you access to a hell of a lot more games than the PS5 offers. And I'm including back-compat with PS4 in that statement.

If PocketPair choose to fight (and it looks like they may do), the case is estimated to carry on for years, so you're pretty much on the money here. The process is the punishment. My fear is that Nintendo has a 100% KDR when it comes to lawsuits that they initiate. The only real chance PP have is if their new partners Sony decide to assist with the legal fees.

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/survival/its-official-palworld-has-been-nintendod-as-the-pokemon-company-files-lawsuit-against-pocketpair-for-infringing-multiple-patent-rights/ https://www.ign.com/articles/palworld-developer-pocketpair-responds-to-nintendo-pokmon-lawsuit-says-its-unaware-of-the-patents-its-accused-of-infringing https://www.eurogamer.net/nintendos-palworld-lawsuit-looks-to-hinge-on-pokeball-patent https://www.404media.co/cold-blooded-business-nintendo-is-patent-trolling-palworld-because-it-got-too-big/ I have zero interest in either franchise, but the potential fallout from this affects the entire industry when it comes to creative freedom. Notably, one of the patents was only filed in May, several months AFTER Palworld was released. Nintendo is not the goody guy in this case, or ever. If you are still giving these lawfaring shitheads your money at this point, I don't what else to tell you.

Still miffed that we'll never get to see the Coyote vs. ACME movie.

Some horror ones to check out: John Carpenter's Body Bags Creepshow Asylum

Saw this and immediately got Pacer (Formula Fusion) vibes from the whole thing. For context, R8Games (the original devs) left the game in a still-unfinished state after a years-long development cycle including crowdfunding, early access, focus/design shifts, the lot. They eventually shut up shop and sold the entire IP to a crypto company which is now selling its own version of the game at a fraction of the price of the one on Steam and consoles, probably with a bunch of shady back-end crap. Nothing good will come of this.

Concord made the mistake of being an Overwatch clone minus the appealing artstyle and eight years too late, whereas Outlaws is a Ubisoft game. For now. The thing to remember about subscription fees is that they only ever go up.

My point being that the PS4 is still being supported well into 2025 - five years after the release of its successor. There has always been a cross-platform period, but this is unprecedented. It's more than half of the 9th gen's predicted life cycle. and we're not just talking about the usual cash-grab roster updates to old versions of FIFA, either. These are actual legitimate releases - we've just see even Jedi Survivor being backported to PS4/Xbone (God knows how that runs on those systems, especially the VCR), and there are more new titles in the pipeline. There are some decent titles in among the PS5 exclusives list (my mistake btw, I said FF16 instead of 7 Rebirth), but most of them are no great shakes, a few of them aren't even out yet (some potentially even slipping into 2026 or later) and at least some of them are more or less guaranteed to release on PC later on. Astro Bot I think will remain exclusive, simply because it is so tied thematically to Playstation as a brand and AFAIK a lot of the Dualsense functionality isn't supported on PC, but the likes of DS2, Wolverine, TLoU2R and Stellar Blade will find their way onto PC eventually. I agree that the 9th gen has been boring (kind of my main gripe, actually), particularly from a AAA standpoint - especially given the ludicrous budgets and lengthy development cycles, big titles are becoming less and less frequent, meaning that publishers have become so risk-averse that everything ends up being the same derivative open-world or live service slop to the point that it's starting to drive customers away (see Concord and Star Wars Outlaws for 2 of the most recent examples of this endless trend-chasing beginning to eat itself). I also think you're right about the lack of competition from Xbox - I do get the feeling that this is all part of the old Sony hubris from 2006 rearing its ugly head again. As for a price drop on the base hardware, oh, Sony has done that alright, as long as you're willing to buy a refurb!