What about Hogwarts Legacy? Fuck copyright laws, pirate it. Just like with any other big-name game, lots of people will be buying it. Nobody will notice or care that you pirated.

we HP fans deserve a genuinely good Hogwarts simulator along the lines of HL meets Bully

If only Rockstar would make Bully: The Dark Ages.

The Sims 4 is the only game my wife plays nowadays. You can bet we didn’t pay the hundreds of dollars it would cost to get all the DLC.

It would be neat if modders put all the “patent-infringing” stuff back in.

Except it doesn’t. Nintendo was only able to do this by exploiting Japanese-specific patent law since Palworld is made by a Japanese company. They had no case otherwise.

Wonder who owns the rights to Fly Boy now?

I jailbroke my Switch after they went after Yuzu in March last year. Every time I read about them, it makes pirating new games on it more satisfying. I’m really gonna enjoy Metroid Prime 4 on it!

That would be a nice “fuck you,” but it’s probably not worth the extra effort to them.

Even that group is a tiny minority. Most buyers are people who just want to play Nintendo games and don’t care about anything else.

STAREFIELD

Tch!

OLED made some minor improvements, but $150 more for the next step up is a huge ask. You act as if there are plenty of easily available cheaper handheld PCs out there. Not that I’ve found. Prices for old technology are going up, not down.

But the cost is hard to justify given its age now.

Is it? When I last checked online, you’d be hard-pressed to find any other PC handheld for $400 or less, even used.

You know what’s wild? The original Vice City was a period piece, taking place in 1986, 16 years before the year it was released. This Vice City will be released 13 years after the last GTA.

It’s still a year away.

But prices are being raised worldwide, not just in the US.

Nintendo sucks and all, but Xbox wanted the One to not work at all unless it was online.

It’s already happened and will happen again.

If you can afford the cost of console game prices, more power to you. They’re pricing me out and I know I’ll have no choice but to switch to PC in the future if I want to be able to keep playing games.