• yonder@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    I imagine Nintendo could make a tonne selling Zelda games for PC for 1.5x what they normally charge, simply for performance and controller compatibility.

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      2 months ago

      Right?

      If they hate emulators so much, why aren’t they selling native x86 versions?

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        2 months ago

        they could even sell a VM image as they’ve proven it still runs better virtualised on other machines than it does native on theirs

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        2 months ago

        "Hey we released this new game buuuuut you’re going to need to purchase an entire separate computer system we call a ‘console’ because we refuse to compile the game binary for PC OSes, nor provide the source for you to do so yourself”

        I interpret distributors and publishers treating me as a second (or third) class citizen as carte blanche to acquire your content and make the necessary changes to make it work on my environment of choice.

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        2 months ago

        Depends on your country but switch games range 50-70 € and pc games are more like 10-100€ but with ones comparable to Switch games mostly 30-60€. So yes mostly, but they’re not that far off that they would definitely do poorly.