I couldn’t even get pass the login screen since I only lurked and never made an account (despite spending over a decade browsing reddit). I remember they used to let you use the app without logging in.

I don’t see what the big deal is even. Developers can just continue using the same tooling, and just target a higher graphics budget. Surely Nintendo isn’t so crazy as to introduce some backward incompatible changes?

Treated myself to an ultrawide and rtx 3070 during the pandemic for Cyberpunk and Battlefield 2042… and for work and study, of course. Cyberpunk was a bit choppy, but I got used to it–thankfully only ever crashed a few times during my playthrough. Played Horizon: Zero Dawn, Apex Legends, Star Wars: Fallen Order, Titanfall 2, and some other games, mostly FPS/shooters (NMS, hunting games)… then it became a glorified Fall Guys machine for a bit until I got a PS5… next upgrade may be when the 4090s come down in price, or whenever 24 GB of video ram is more affordable (I actually could use the extra ram for work-related experiments). Maybe a sidegrade to the steam deck?

2009, 2015, M1 MacBook Pros. All solid laptops that gave me years of productivity. Touchpad, screen, and form factor are all extremely important for me; I work 75% of the time on the couch with the laptop on my lap (on a laptop pillow of sorts), and having a quiet and cool M1 has been great.

I don’t need my esoteric linux setup on my laptop. I’ve had to use a Windows laptop for work for two years, and I did not enjoy the random lockups, file explorer crashing, driver notifications and malfunctions, windows filesystem, managed spyware by both microsoft and my company slowing things down considerably… and this was a more expensive engineering grade workstation laptop. If I could trim the fat and make it as stable and bloatfree as my gaming PC, it probably would have been a better experience.

Nice. I’d replace the plastic buckle lock with metal ones, too, if you’re already opening up the joycon.

No special features besides removable usb-c hub. I did replace the fan and thermal paste on my Switch last year, which may help if you’re overheating.

No complaints with the jump gate except that one time at a hotel where it overheated my Switch. Been using it for a while now with no issues on an OG Switch.

Multiplayer shrines, spin-off game.

Give me a Nintendo Phone. I already pay big bucks for a phone every few years; what if I pay big bucks instead for a Nintendo Phone that can also play Nintendo games?

I’d love to just whip out my Nintendo Phone and play a quick match or two of Splatoon or solve a few shrines in Zelda wherever I am. I can already imagine the increased netcode lag over cellular data in Splatoon already… maybe it isn’t a good idea…

M$ is a 2.5 trilion dollar company that can’t manage game studios because it’s not one of their core competencies. They prop up their failed xbox gaming division with enterprise sales and cloud computing. I honestly don’t think M$ even cares about xbox as a console; it’s just a vehicle for cloud gaming, subscriptions, and a way to ensure developers also develop for PC/Windows.

M$ is looking long term. They can afford to bleed money for another 5 to 10 years, as long as they buy brands/studios with influence; they’ll try to condition the next generation of kids to accept subscriptions and live-service games. It’s the worst of worlds; a regular gaming company would be forced to innovate, restructure, or sell itself–xbox can just fail and instead of improving internally, they have unlimited non-xbox money to spend.

I also think xbox, even failing, is just a marketing vehicle for M$. They want to influence kids and teens into associating M$ with cool things. They’ve failed to produce any games (yet) to compete with Sony this generation, so their last ditch effort is to just buy a studio with mindshare. You’ll never hear a straight answer as to how much money xbox is losing, because they probably hide it behind some cloud/services or marketing account.

There is one way I’d be okay with M$ buying Activision Blizzard: they need to spin off the xbox brand into it’s own company and let it stand on its own. Then, we’ll see if the company is really viable as its own entity or if its just a money-losing strategic brand for M$.