New consoles used to be a big deal. Generational leaps still are, but we’ve fallen into a malaise in recent years as new models and more powerful advancements come along and we all shrug our shoulders before getting on with our day.
That’s a distinctly “game journalists have nothing to write about” problem.
Anyway, this was a chance for Sony to finally ship functional Bluetooth with their damn Console. Guess not.
I bought an Asus Vivobook (M7400Q) last year. It sells with two variants, Intel and AMD. I obviously chose AMD…only to realise that the thunderbolt port on it has been crippled, not allowing USB-C charging.
Why? Because Intel paid ASUS to do so. So yeah, fuck Intel and fuck ASUS. And finally, the real kicker? ASUS discontinued the model, so I can’t buy a new charger for it either (which I needed for the office).
All this makes a lot more sense with the lens of mobile gaming. Effort required is little, and margins are huge. If players don’t partake in microtransactions, you just bombard them with ads.
This is the future of Unity. They are counting on devs not even bothering with the whole monetization model and instead expect them to turn on IronSource ads.
The irony of British people handing over their data to a company named Palantir…