I mean, didn’t Gitlab also say they were going all-in on AI?

There’s no major forge you can use for proprietary projects that isn’t shitty.

without seeing a single non-cgi frame

I know what you mean, but they’re all cgi frames in the game too lol

They don’t really own R* (yet?)

Makes you want to escape to the outer worlds.

Plenty of people have laptops or old office desktops. Fiber is available pretty widely in much of the developed world and in a dense city 5G is likely to be better than copper. Availability of a decent connection is location dependent, ability to drop a grand on a console is dependent on your finances. Some people might live in a city but not have that much disposable income.

E.g in Romania, gigabit connection is 8 euros a month. Basically anyone can get it. But I don’t think bandwidth is anywhere near as important as latency. So the availability is even more location dependent

Aaaand downvotes from people who never read the article, we’ve reached peak reddit.

This is from an earnings call. He 1) says that increasing hardware prices are not a good thing and 2) thinks streaming is starting to be ready enough that people who can’t afford gaming PCs or consoles, can stream the games instead.

This came from a lengthy answer given in Take-Two’s quarterly earnings call this morning by Strauss Zelnick, in response to a question about the rising cost of hardware. He began his reply by saying that the rising price of hardware is “not a good thing” because it means fewer people will have machines on which to play games, but that it won’t slow Take-Two down as a business, “because we’re delivering experiences that people want.”

But Zelnick continued with a really interesting response about streaming. First, he pointed out that the world is increasingly moving to open systems, as demonstrated by the rise of PC gaming over the last 20 years. Then, he continued:

With the advent of streaming—which we really do believe is around the corner in terms of having something that’s low latency, and really works well for consumers—machines that weren’t game machines before will become game machines. So, without regard to what happens in the console business, which is of consequence to us, of course, we see the overall install base as a practical matter growing materially. And if you believe in streaming, to be clear, we really do, and I’m happy to put a timeline on it. I think we’ll be in commercial streaming mode in three years, and by commercial I mean low latency. That can 10x the effective the install base. That doesn’t mean we’re going to 10x our revenue, and we wouldn’t project that we would, because obviously your avid consumers already have access to video game machines. But I do think it creates great opportunity for titles that are broadly desirable even outside of core markets, and we do have titles like that, obviously.

This is VERY different from what the headline suggests, of course Kotaku editorialized the fuck out of it.

If you read it, he says it’s a way to reach those who don’t have machines capable of running the games, therefore increasing the target audience size.

They’ve been doing that FOMO thing for a while unfortunately. The last GTA that got a simultaneous console + PC release was GTA 2.

GTA V was pretty decent at release, that’s “only” 13 years. The enshittification began later, when Online came out and they realized what a cash cow it is

Also minimum wage depends where you live mine hasn’t changed.

Here it is raised every year.

Sure but why can I go to a sit down restaurant and purchase a burger that is not so much more expensive then a fast food Burger. If its beef price it would effect both places.

Idk, sit down restaurant burgers are even more expensive here. Sit down restaurants have comparable pricing to fast food places if you get like a pasta or something else that doesn’t need a lot of meat and has cheap meat in the first place. Sometimes they’ll even be cheaper than fast food then. Think 13€ for a McDonald’s meal (big tasty for example), 10-12€ for a pasta at a sit down restaurant, 15€ for a burger with fries at a sit down restaurant and then 3-4€ extra for a drink.

And you used to be able to get that pasta for 6€ at the sit down restaurant, or the burger for about 8, back when that mcdonald’s meal cost 6-7. And somehow, the restaurant selling 7-8€ burgers went under, despite having plenty of demand.

In other news, the superb chicken wrap that used to cost me €4.70 a little under a decade ago is now over €8. Actually, it was €8 2 years ago, it could be around €10 now. Also at a sit down restaurant, but I’d usually order it via Wolt.

Game devs make shit money so they were all in it for the games, but realistically most won’t have savings to work for free for the next few years to put out an indie game.

They used to have good games in addition to the dogshit ones. Now it’s just the dogshit. Though to me the cutoff was 14 years ago, when they made the last Mass Effect game.

Fair, though since it was a leveraged buyout, I reckon it would be JP Morgan Chase who’d be getting defrauded. The only question is whether MBS wants that kind of image for the saudi PIF.

Essentially, MBS and Kushner would find a way to spin all the valuable IPs into other companies and leave only the debt and maybe some IPs at EA Games. Then it becomes a worthless company that owes JPMorgan Chase 20 billion with a fairly high interest rate.

Like Martin Shkreli in that they’ll increase the price of a life-saving drug 20x without consequences, or like Martin Shkreli in that they’ll go to prison for defrauding rich investors?

Seriously fucked up that the second was considered a crime, but not the first, in Shkreli’s case.

Another Sims? Don’t be daft. They’ll release another Sims DLC and get all the money with much less effort.

Seriously, 4 has been a cash cow for over a decade now, with biannual expansion packs.

It could also be the fact that beef has more than doubled over the last few (4-5 I think) years, or that minimum wage has more than doubled over the last 10 years. Would make sense then that fast food is about twice as expensive as 10 years ago lol

Eh, did some research and it turns out you have no need for Objective C using any of the mainstream game engines (Unreal, Unity, Godot) and in general you only need it when working with old frameworks. I’d wager that pretty much anyone who started iOS dev in the last 5 years hasn’t even touched objective C except when working on legacy apps.

Do you still have to use Objective C? They’ve been trying to get everyone to use Swift for nearly a decade now and Swift is a MUCH nicer language, but I have no idea about game dev in particular, since I’ve only done crappy little apps.

If you can’t afford or don’t want to buy a used Mac for this, I recently set up MacOS 26 on a Thinkpad t480s I had lying around. Turns out if you just google specific laptop model + hackintosh, you’ll easily find out if it’s a well supported model for hackintosh.

However whether or not this would work on a brand new Apple account or you’d just get banned for suspicious activity, I have no idea. My account is old and I have an iPhone, so it wasn’t as suspicious to them I think.

You get a pension because you pay taxes into it all your life. I literally fucking pay into it, it already is “locked in and guaranteed”, it is not like the US social security.

Not American (or Canadian), but don’t you also have to pay into social security in the US? At least that’s what I’ve heard. FICA I believe is what you need to pay.