Poopfeast420

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago (3 children)

In justifying the $450 price of the Switch 2, Nintendo executives predictably pointed to the system's upgraded hardware specs, as well as new features like GameChat and mouse mode.

GameChat is truly a revolution. We haven't used voice chat for games for like 25 years, definitely not.

Nobody asked for the mouse mode, it will probably be used by two games, made by Nintendo themselves, then just be forgotten.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (8 children)

30-series was only the 3050 on x8, but 40-series it was 4060 and 4060 Ti (all three 4.0). I'd be surprised if it was x16, since Nvidia likes to cheap out on these things more and more over the years

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Trying a solo Honor Mode run in Baldur's Gate 3. Playing a Gloomstalker Assassin, which should avoid getting into combat a lot, and just snipe from max range, if you play it right. If I die, I'll probably still continue the run. I've done the beginning too many times earlier this year.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Used it, it was probably the best, but still bad. If not for work, it would have been good enough though.

Most of the RDP implementations are also just based on FreeRDP, so they're basically the same. I had terrible picture quality on all of them, even over local network, and the USB passthrough barely worked.

Tbh since I need the system for work, I wasn't able to test stuff super long. Maybe I should install Linux on a secondary system, so I can just play around and try stuff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've been on Windows 11 since it was released. The only problem I had were NVIDIA drivers sometimes causing a bluescreen (mainly my fault).

Linux doesn't work for me currently, since I use RDP to connect to systems for work, and RDP clients on Linux are ass.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, it would be insane if the game's also uninstalled, but that second system still needs to be at hand or someone needs to "eject" it. It's a really dumb system.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I think the only thing that's worse with the new Steam system is that everyone has to be in the same country.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If we still need to buy one copy of a gamer per simultaneous player,.then the rest of the differences are just ceremony.

Like I said, to me, the differences are not as cut and dry, it depends on you situation.

As for the virtual game card, Nintendo actually uses eject, load, and borrow in their article, so it sounds to me it's basically like a physical game you have to move between consoles, not just simple check.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

I think you can argue if Steam does the whole sharing thing better than Sony or Microsoft. On Playstation and Xbox you can just by one copy of a game, but play it simultaniously with someone else, but it seems like that's limited to one other console (setting the home console).

On Steam you need one copy for every accout playing the game, but you can have 6 accounts in your family, and unlimited devices. Without family share, your own account can only play on one device at a time, but then, why not just make a new Steam account and join a family.

The virtual game cards from Nintendo are also like Steam, since they need one game copy for each player, but also only on one device.

Seems to me like Nintendo is not as good as the others, when it comes to sharing digital games. Sharing physical is of course still possible and easy on console.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

but it’s about as good as what Steam does.

Explain, since I don't think that's true.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Missing the price for the games, since that's been jacked up to $80 for digital and maybe $90 for physical.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The release was "narrowed down" once already, so this doesn't mean anything.

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