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HootTheOwl posted:I really hate motion controls. They assume you play sitting up perfectly every time and come on, man. I could see my daughter's arm getting tired from having to hold it out in front of her for a long time. It's absurd.
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HootTheOwl posted:I really hate motion controls. They assume you play sitting up perfectly every time and come on, man. The only Wii games that I have played where motion controls felt good were the original Boxing that came with the console and a few of the WiiSports games; everything else is nonsense. Even the star bits gathering in the Galaxy games seemed like tacked-on rubbish. I always find a certain irony, if I am using the term correctly, or at least dark humour in the fact that I had to look for ages for a Wii because it sold like billy-o but I ended up hating it. The Wii U, on the other hand, sold like poo poo but I had no problem finding one and like it very much.
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i was pretty pissed when i found the classic controller pro only worked for like three games. i guess i should have done some research, but come on
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I really liked the use of the Wiimote in Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. You waved it around as a flashlight, sometimes it would behave as the phone you were carrying and you'd get creepy calls through the speaker
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JustJeff88 posted:The only Wii games that I have played where motion controls felt good were the original Boxing that came with the console and a few of the WiiSports games; everything else is nonsense. Even the star bits gathering in the Galaxy games seemed like tacked-on rubbish. The worst was the Wii version of Twilight Princess for me. I know it was a launch game and a port but like, come on, this is your new system and this is a Zelda game and you're gonna have it feel and execute that badly wtf. Skyward Sword was a sort of improvement but that game had its own issues.
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After catching up on the past 10 pages of this thread, I'm surprised no one has mentioned this, considering the thread has basically been Retail Collapse 2019: GameStop Death Watch https://www.gamespot.com/articles/gamestop-and-microsoft-enter-multi-year-partnership-ahead-of-xbox-series-x-launch/1100-6483126/ quote:The customer service experience is set to change at GameStop as the company enters a multi-year partnership with Microsoft. The deal enables the retailer to provide a "differentiated and personalized in-store customer experience" centered around more advanced tools through Microsoft assets like Dynamics 365, Surface notebooks, and Teams.
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Some worker with a surface is gonna be roaming a 50 square foot strip mall stall asking for my Microsoft username? Ooookay
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:i was pretty pissed when i found the classic controller pro only worked for like three games. i guess i should have done some research, but come on Same. There were so many games, Punch Out leaps to mind, where it would have been very appropriate yet wasn't implemented. I will say that for FPS games it was fairly good. Neo Rasa posted:The worst was the Wii version of Twilight Princess for me. I know it was a launch game and a port but like, come on, this is your new system and this is a Zelda game and you're gonna have it feel and execute that badly wtf. Skyward Sword was a sort of improvement but that game had its own issues. Abysmal, I agree. I ended up trading that towards the GC version... and then they came out with the Wii U remake.
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eggyolk posted:After catching up on the past 10 pages of this thread, I'm surprised no one has mentioned this, considering the thread has basically been Retail Collapse 2019: GameStop Death Watch SO microsoft wants their own applestores and gamestop already has the storefronts?
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HootTheOwl posted:SO microsoft wants their own applestores and gamestop already has the storefronts? Microsoft already had their own 'Apple stores'. And they're closing them all. This is 100% Microsoft's numbers showing that enough people still buy poo poo through GameStop that they want to ensure GameStop stays around to sell Xboxes and Xbox Accessories even though they're otherwise completely shanking the GameStop business model via digital game purchases. It's a "let's make sure you stay alive long enough to keep selling our poo poo until we finish weening customers off your store entirely".
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HootTheOwl posted:SO microsoft wants their own applestores and gamestop already has the storefronts? That article is literally just a Microsoft press release, I wouldn't read too much into it.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Nintendo is apparently mobbed to the gills with the Yakuza, btw. All Japanese companies are. They're not even secretive about it.
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Random Stranger posted:All Japanese companies are. They're not even secretive about it. Curious, why tf does the Japanese government allow this? Also the murder rate in Japan is just shy of the lowest of any country on earth, so what do Yakuza even threaten people with, harsh language?
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-Blackadder- posted:Curious, why tf does the Japanese government allow this? They will ruin your career and make you unemployable. In Japan that means you kinda just die or leave.
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-Blackadder- posted:Curious, why tf does the Japanese government allow this? Because the yakuza are also super in-bed with the LDP (Japan's ruling right-wing party).
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-Blackadder- posted:Curious, why tf does the Japanese government allow this? Its easy to say this, but it's just a different culture. If you explain the Republican party to people in other countries they find it kind of unbelievable, but to us, it's entirely normal to have ignorant bigots who clearly only care about rich people be celebrated by hicks they treat like garbage and actively enact policies which screw their own constituencies.
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The yakuza are deeply embedded in Japanese culture in a way that is extremely unhealthy for everyone and also effectively impossible to pry out. With companies, for example, the yakuza will disrupt business if the companies don't deal with them and then the yakuza wind up providing off-the-books muscle for those companies to suppress things they don't like. And while Japan's official murder rate is super-low, there are plenty of "disappearances" and "suicides".
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biznatchio posted:Microsoft already had their own 'Apple stores'. And they're closing them all. It's also a convenient bribe to make sure that, when people go to the videogame store to buy a new console, Gamestop has serious financial incentives to put the Xboxes front-and-center, and the Playstations off to the side (or, from Gamestop's perspective, an opportunity to push Sony to offer the same thing). That placement might not matter so much to people who walk in with strong opinions about the type of RAM in their console, but it'll be a big deal for a whole lot of people doing gift shopping this holiday season.
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pseudanonymous posted:If you explain the Republican party to people in other countries they find it kind of unbelievable, but to us, it's entirely normal to have ignorant bigots who clearly only care about rich people be celebrated by hicks they treat like garbage and actively enact policies which screw their own constituencies. The thing that makes this statement so wonderfully true is that one could replace "Republican" with "Democrat", "Labour", "Conservative", "Tory" or basically anything these days and it's still true.
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I know exactly how this GameStop Surface tablet poo poo is gonna work out because they've been down this road before. I worked at GameStop for a few years and for a good chunk of it, they gave every store an ipad. The idea was that you could look up customers on it, see other store's inventory, and if there was a line, you could start a transaction on it and ring them through on the main register. All pretty good ideas, but never fully realized. Typing stuff on a tablet is an incredible pain in the rear end. The inventory tracker wasn't reliable so you'd still have to call the other store to have them check. I don't think we ever used the transaction feature, I think it was never fully implemented or something. The worst was that they gave us quotas on looking up people's power up cards. They wanted us, for every customer, look up their account on the tablet, see what points they had, and encourage them to use their points for poo poo. It felt incredibly invasive. They also wanted us to do it away from the counter, out on the floor, which wasn't going to happen because people naturally went to the counter when they wanted to talk to you and the registers were easier and faster to use. To get around the quota we just looked up our own accounts or pulled up random people so they'd get off our backs during the conference calls. I mostly used the tablet to watch youtube videos when nobody was there.
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I've actually gone out of my way to support Gamestop over the years, since I wanted them to keep having games and not just have it be box stores and Amazon. But they suck. But with the PS5, it will be my last purchase going into a GameStop. I pre ordered one, will trade in my PS4 pro towards the cost, and then i'm going all digital for PS5 games. My old ps4 games disk will work with it, and any ps4 games I don't own I'll grab cheap on sale online for black Friday. It's another thing I now won't have to leave my house for, and that's better.
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quote:These changes will make GameStop feel more like an Apple store or Best Buy, with store associates walking around with Surface devices in hand and gaining access to customer information through Microsoft's cloud-based platforms. Last time I checked, a Gamestop was about as big as a livingroom and packed full of shelves...
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LionArcher posted:I've actually gone out of my way to support Gamestop over the years, Please don't do this.
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Have you seen the price of LPs? I know there's only one place in the world making the shellac for them or something like that but jesus christ
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Detective No. 27 posted:Please don't do this. I won't anymore, after I pick up my PS5 on November 12th. I only did because while they have always sucked, Amazon eating everything in front of them seemed worse long term. But frankly, I love apple stuff, and target stuff, and sometimes best buy stuff. So really, as long as those stores are around, I'm good. (Apple isn't going anywhere, and I don't think Target is either).
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Nintendo is apparently mobbed to the gills with the Yakuza, btw. These are more patient gangsters than I've ever met. You would think they would want them to make as much money as possible as fast as possible with crowd pleasing features.
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skooma512 posted:These are more patient gangsters than I've ever met. You would think they would want them to make as much money as possible as fast as possible with crowd pleasing features. They have been getting that money quietly for probably over a century, so I am sure they are thinking more long term that a quick cash grab that ruins the company.
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They stopped pushing after Reggie had a talk with them. 
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biznatchio posted:Microsoft already had their own 'Apple stores'. And they're closing them all.
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OneEightHundred posted:The biggest upshot for them is that they can give the Xbox favored treatment at one of the biggest console retailers at the start of a console generation war, which is the most crucial period in its lifespan. 
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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OneEightHundred posted:The biggest upshot for them is that they can give the Xbox favored treatment at one of the biggest console retailers at the start of a console generation war, which is the most crucial period in its lifespan. One of the biggest console retailers of the last generation, sure, but they're going to have less than 3000 stores by the end of the year, and many of those are in dying malls. Yeah, it's probably a good deal for Microsoft still, but they fell fast and hard since 2016.
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HootTheOwl posted:I really hate motion controls. They assume you play sitting up perfectly every time and come on, man. I live on a sailboat and forget about it.
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It's literally only going to give a small boost to North American sales, which was already where they are strongest. Xbox still has its work cut out for it ("games matter" rhetoric here), and it's only delaying the inevitable for Gamestop without a full replacement of their board.
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Mister Facetious posted:It's literally only going to give a small boost to North American sales, which was already where they are strongest. Xbox still has its work cut out for it ("games matter" rhetoric here), and it's only delaying the inevitable for Gamestop without a full replacement of their board. If Microsoft didn’t live in fear of another anti-trust suit it could buy Sony outright and not even break a sweat. This deal is about getting the Xbox entertainment system in more homes nothing else.
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sbaldrick posted:If Microsoft didn’t live in fear of another anti-trust suit it could buy Sony outright and not even break a sweat. This deal is about getting the Xbox entertainment system in more homes nothing else. I'm not disputing that, I'm just saying it isn't going to be a significant boost to the sales they would already make from Gamestop. If they really cared about launch day sales MS would be going hard into Europe where they're even more of an also-ran than in North America. I think the fact the Series S exists is going to be a bigger driver of sales than this Gamestop partnership, because its price (usd $299) is a direct shot at the Nintendo Switch. Which means low budget consumers without kids have the option of next-gen games instead of just Mario. Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Oct 28, 2020 |
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Breaking911's a chud feed.
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sbaldrick posted:If Microsoft didn’t live in fear of another anti-trust suit it could buy Sony outright and not even break a sweat. This deal is about getting the Xbox entertainment system in more homes nothing else. Again, it's very hard if not impossible for Japanese companies to be bought out by foreign ones, hence why Nintendo can have so much liquid cash on hand without worrying about a hostile takeover.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Again, it's very hard if not impossible for Japanese companies to be bought out by foreign ones, hence why Nintendo can have so much liquid cash on hand without worrying about a hostile takeover. Why, just out of curiosity? Do they typically not offer large portions of themselves up for sale? Are there limits to the amount of stock that can legally be held by foreign companies?
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