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Button layout was the bigger issue, especially for certain genres. There's a reason why Nintendo went back to the diamond layout and why no one else adopted the GC layout.

Fewer write cycles, yes, but no mechanical parts to wear out. Modern SSDs have firmware to help spread writes out over multiple cells to increase lifespan, though. In MOST use cases, you're better off with an SSD than a mechanical drive these days.

Heck, wasn't it discovered that if it wasn't for the change in disk drives that the WiiU was perfectly capable of running GameCube software, only needing a few changes in the firmware to remap controls. Looks like I missed the last part of your post, Viola, doh! I'm pretty sure the SNES was...

Indeed. Breeding for aesthetics really shouldn't be done, especially in extreme cases such as the pugs skull shape or munchkin cats leg length.

Oh, the definitely do. Namco was absent for years on Nintendo hardware back in the 90's because of a grudge between the two companies. Haven't really heard of a rift between Activision and Sony, but given that Sony picked up a lot of Nintendo's bad habits after the success of the PS2, I...

Yea. Nintendo always makes at least ONE questionable decision with their hardware design and it is usually detrimental to the sales of the system. The third party issue goes way deeper than JUST the proprietary disks. There was also a decade-and-a-half of heavy handed restrictions Nintendo...

That's probably a good chunk of the reason. Some PS5 games make heavy use of asset streaming(heck pretty much all modern open world games absolutely RELY on it) and the low throughput of external media can sometimes cause issues with that. I was once playing GTA5 on a mechanical hdd while...

There will be. Just the nature of the beast. Probably won't be as bad as when they ported Street Fighter II to the Spectrum, but still.

Well ~~datahazard~~ PROBABLY isn't a multibillionaire. Given the name, I'm gonna assume he's a late 90's script kiddie who never grew out of his wanna-be hacker status.

So, would you loose your right to vote if you give the kid up for adoption or abandon your family? Would you gain the right to vote if you adopt or become a stepparent? Do you still get to vote if your child dies or if they become an adult? So many questions.... Frankly, you don't have to be...

Reddit supports twitter embeds and it's one of the larger social networks(though it too seems like it wants to drive itself off a cliff)

Well, to be fair about the Mario Kart scene... The best selling Mario game of all time is Mario Kart 8 so you COULD argue that more people know Mario from the kart racing games than the platformers, as much as that kind of saddens me.

Remember the original Super Mario Bros, graphics AND code, fit into 40kb of ROM space(32k PRG, 8k CHR) The 16 bit era had games increasing in size an entire order of magnitude. Super Mario World for the SNES was on a 512k ROM and that was a LAUNCH title for the SNES, they got bigger as the...

Switch 2 rumors have been floating around since 2019 at the very least. The Switch IS getting rather long in the tooth, though and with Switch games running better on the Steam Deck than they do on the official hardware, I'm sure Nintendo execs are looking at releasing SOMETHING in the next...

No, they need the embeds to attract people to actually sign up. Granted Twitter is currently run by morons, so maybe they don't realize that embeds are the best advertising the platform actually has.

The older Megaman games, thankfully, are rather simple mechanically. I was able to get a crude MM prototype working rather quickly using the Flixel engine ages ago.

Even Shovel Knight, which aped the NES style REALLY WELL, cheated a bit here and there and in more ways than simply allowing more than 8 sprites per scanline. The developers even admitted such. This article contains details on the the ways they broke NES conventions and the reasoning behind...

Well, he's not wrong except that now that the option has been publicly discussed you just KNOW the Republicans will use it even if the Democrats show restraint by NOT using said option. The minute Republicans gain control of congress and the presidency while the court leans left, seats will be...

Fear is the quickest way to gain power. That's why the go that route. It's not a SUSTAINABLE way to gain power, but it is the quickest.

I thought non-competes were deemed unenforceable in California. Granted her former job was with NBC Universal, which is headquartered in New York, which does have enforceable non-competes.