Game News 2.0

Yeah the "at this time" looks to be they saw the backlash and sent a hasty enough email to show it ain't as bad as the headlines for those lucky enough to be using it already.

For now il continue with it and see what to do when they for sure pump it up

Well that's something to easily ignore and not take part of/follow. Money can buy literally anything. I love the IOC quote

"we have also ensured that the Olympic values are respected, in particular, with regard to the game titles on the programme, the promotion of gender equality and engagement with the young audience, which is embracing esports."

I actually thought the IOC, without knowing anything about them, wouldn't be that thick. Guess I was wrong. Gender equality in Saudi Arabia! Hah! And not just once off, for the next 12 years! I genuinely hope gamers garner together and simply ignore or even actively ensure people don't engage with it. Any streamer who takes part should be shunned from the community. I'm even tempted to email Sony/PS and ask them to remove GT7 from the games being played, because they shouldn't want anything to do with this either. But… money will win. It always does. Shame, I may have been interested in it.

I'm trying to boycott anything that has sold out to oil but it's difficult, because a lot have! And it really doesn't affect me anyway because I'd rather play games than watch other people play them. Just amazing how blind people get when money is waved in front of them. I've let the IOC know my feelings, not that it would change anything. Maybe start an aul change.org petition to get people to boycott it… doubt it would work, but any negative publicity is good for us. I may also just continue to do nothing but complain and turn into an old man before my time.

Hands off Nintendo !

I don't think Nintendo had any choice in the matter. Shares were up for sale and the Saudi PIF bought them up.

Well this sucks.

I would say they barely ever started promoting the consoles in Europe and I think Sony has taken the EU market a long time ago.

Microsoft have never really been a hardware company, xbox is probably the longest they have stayed in consumer hardware that I can think of.

Alot of gaming pcs are running on windows so Microsoft gaming reach is probably crazy when you think of that which is not in a traditional sense, more and more kids are getting into pcs as they are streaming and seeing streaming and that's possibly on consoles but not as customisable.

Digital Foundry did an iPhone AC Mirage video recently and it looks pants. I'm amazed the quality Nintendo can squeeze out of the little old Switch all these years later. Except for maybe the messy complicated WiiU, Nintendo always squeeze the last drop of performance out of cheap hardware for years.

I'd say Valve are lining up Steam Deck 2 to be the definitive PC console experience. MS could try to produce a similar product but it'd would make no sense.

I'm saying compared to their other consoles it was an expensive piece of hardware to produce at the time, given the main unit and the tablet. Stuff like Switch, Gameboy, Wii are/were cheap to produce compared to the competition.

And it's ridiculous that the Switch can give a much better gaming experience thanks to its software, vs the latest most expensive iPhone Mega Max Utra Extreme With Knobs On Hash Tag Look At Me

Switch software is tangible too as it comes on cartridge. It's offline and personal. It's self marketing desirable stuff that maintains it value and possibly will even increase in value.

Streaming stuff is throw away, network dependent, big brother controlled, metrics enabled, disposable stuff. That's why people will not warm to it and put its value at zero. It'll become an advertising platform and people will get their content for free, and pay for add ons.

My 2 cents.