Speaking of the Switch, WTF is up with weirdos trying to compare it and the upcoming Valve Steam Deck? They're two consoles with far different demographics than each other in mind.

It is very common to compare video game systems to each other, in fact that's how people decide which to buy

Sounds like this whole Activision Blizzard thing is about to get ugly.

A maybe conspiracy with the recent 6500% price hike of "vintage games" at auction.


Very interesting read, and the 1 hourish "documentary" is on Youtube and done by a "pro youtuber" or whatever.


Anyway, if there is any meat here, its gonna be interesting.


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Going to attempt to preorder one of those when it goes live. Just bought my first 4k TV, so I'm really hoping I can get one.

They went live 2 days ago and got botted off the face of the Earth instantly. Bestbuy and Amazon are the only 2 retailers that didn't launch it yet to my knowledge. Bestbuy was supposed to go live 2 days ago as well but as of yet hasn't.

Yeah..... shortages are expected into Summer of 2022 last I recall hearing. Mainly due to materials.


I paid a bit more than retail for mine, but it was worth it. Dude ordered one and was surprised by his wife bringing him home one, wasn't even opened. Small bidding war.


The new hardware is great and it actually feels "next gen", especially witht he insane load times.

I'm still trying to get the Halo one via Bestbuy whenever it launches there but I scored the standard black series X finally while everyone was trying to buy the halo one on Walmart. I kept having issues with their stupid site during the bot rush and decided while it was attempting to add it to my cart to open another page and see if the regular ones were there and they were. Let me instantly add it to cart and purchase it. Winning.

At this point though it's just for the kids. My new PC is godly due to managing some extreme luck in that market last month. Got a brand new 3080FE for 699 somehow and then ordered a Ryzen 7 5800x the same day and paid 400 for it and the lovely people at amazon accidentally sent me a Ryzen 9 5950x. LOL WINNING. I went all in at that point and now I have a monster of a machine that will probably murder the next generation of consoles too lol. And yes this is a PC MASTER RACE brag because I know my boy drave feels me.

The moment I get a house with space for a PC, we be Steamin.

Waiting for Best Buy to flip the switch on the OLED Switch/Metroid bundles.

Not sure what the hold up is.

Jesus christ, Sony out here dropping bombs in their latest showcase.

Watched that when I got home from work yesterday.

Insane.

Sure would be nice to be able to get a PlayStation 5 right now in order to be ready for all of that.

#Stoked

Got the new Tales games coming for PS5 today too. Amazon needs to hurry up with my delivery. I wanna play it NAO.

Feel like most of that isn't dropping until 2023 or later, so at least you have time to try and get one.

The internal hard drive expansion update goes live for PS5 for tomorrow. It was in a beta phase with Sony saying to install them with a heatsink to prevent potential overheating to the machine. I guess everything's good to go.

Best Buy has a 24 hour flash sale going on for the remainder of the day and I snagged a 1TB drive for $100. Regular price $230.

Snagged me a series x at best buy this morning. Goodbye, load times. You won't be missed.

FUCK YEAH DUDE!!


Maaaaaan, FO76 loads stupid fast. Only shit thing is the expensive cost of the "official" SSD expansion drive. Ever since a shit experience with N64 "third party" hardware, I don't fuck with third party hardware.


Let me know if you get stick drift on the new controller, if you're using that. Had to go back to a Xbone controller recently. First time that's happened.

Strolled into a store and got lucky? Or did you emerge victorious on the internet battlefield?

Either way, good for you dude.

Yeah I'm probably gonna go ahead and buy the expansion. I know that after getting used to this ultra fast loading, I'll get annoyed at going back to slower loading if I get an had.

To be fair, Seagate is reliable, and they apparently worked directly with Microsoft. My Seagate hdd has served me well on Xbox one.

Best buy is selling them in store today, across the country.

I'm still waiting on the xbox I ordered from Walmart a month ago. They delayed the shipments for everyone AGAIN.

Had a chance to get a Series S just a few hours ago because my Xbox just decided to not turn on. The clerk talked me out of it, we agreed that there's simply not enough reason to take the dive yet. And if I'm going to, make it a Series X which he didn't have anyway.

Yeah I almost got a series s last week but decided to hold off for a chance at the x. Glad I did because omg this thing is awesome. Destiny 2 looks absolutely incredible. And holy shit the load times. I started a mission in avengers and it took 3 seconds to load it.

Do NOT settle for the S, whatever you do.

Yeah, gone are the days of "lemme go grab a snack or drink" or anything really. Game loads so quick!


I still used my HDD on the Series X. While limited by the platter speed, it still reads rather quick.


Fig, there are a few games you can turn on "FPS Boost". Push the menu button on a game and go to "manage game and add-ons" and then if it is available, there should be a menu that says "Compatibility options".


You can also toggle auto-hdr there if you want.

Oh shit, thanks. I was wondering why fallout 76 of all games, wasn't running at 60 fps. It's one of the few that have it turned off by default.

buttery smooth fo76

My sexbox will finally be here tomorrow, 1 month after I ordered it.

LOL @ Nintendo considering adding a new premium tier to Nintendo Switch Online for an additional $10 (forget if that was per month or per year, but anyway...) for access to a small collection of Nintendo 64 and Sega Genesis games.

C'mon, Ninty, we all know you ain't really down anywhere near that horrific.

I can't think of any classic game that hasn't been easily available at this point for various collections to still be going out.

i refuse to pay for nintendos subpar online service but the nso expansion will be profitable. the saga library will bring in a lot of people on its own. long term the library offered from nso will likely be similar in depth to the wiis VC library making it a legitimate netflix of classic gaming. its a good model and it will work.

Developer The Initiative recently announced that Crystal Dynamics studio is currently helping with the development of their new Perfect Dark game.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Perfect Dark update! We are partnering with Crystal Dynamics, the world class team behind character-driven games such as Tomb Raider, to bring this first-person spy thriller to a new generation. <a href="https://t.co/EiqjU99wMa">pic.twitter.com/EiqjU99wMa</a></p>&mdash; TheInitiative (@TheInitiative) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheInitiative/status/1441190673672114181?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

world class character-driven games such as Gex: Enter the Gecko

CD has management issues, but what they're told to do they do very well.

stfu Gex is a gaming icon

gex was top notch

Yeah, if you want to throw shade at CD, a joke about The Avengers should be easy enough to make.

"Hey what if I told you they made an Avengers game where the combat is so good and character accurate that playing each Avenger is like playing their own game? It looks amazing and there's a boss battle where you fight a big ass air craft where everybody can target different parts of it? You could even do a ScarJo lucha takedown with Black Widow."

"That sounds like the greatest superhero game ever..!"

"Well it isn't."