I believe its production budget was pegged at between $250m and $350m.

So this particular item in the marketing budget is less than 1% of the development costs.

I don’t think the maths checks out

It also goes on sale quite frequently for like 66% off. Definitely worth picking up at sale price.

For anyone already using using these services its also included in both Game Pass and PS+ Extra at the moment.

chips

Its a strange product, in the US they were ordered not to call them “chips”, and call them “crisps” instead:

The product was originally known as Pringle’s Newfangled Potato Chips, but other snack manufacturers objected, saying Pringles failed to meet the definition of a potato “chip” since they were made from a potato-based dough rather than being sliced from potatoes. The US Food and Drug Administration weighed in on the matter, and in 1975 they ruled Pringles could only use the word “chip” in their product name within the phrase: “potato chips made from dried potatoes”. Faced with such a lengthy and unpalatable appellation, Pringles eventually renamed their product potato “crisps”, instead of chips.

In the UK, they argued they were not “potato crisps” because they though their low potato content would get a lower tax rate.

In July 2008, in the London High Court, P&G lawyers successfully argued that Pringles were not crisps (the term by which potato chips are known in British English), even though labelled “Potato Crisps” on the container, as the potato content was only 42% and their shape, P&G stated, “is not found in nature”. This ruling, against a United Kingdom value added tax (VAT) and Duties Tribunal decision to the contrary, exempted Pringles from the then 17.5% VAT for potato crisps and potato-derived snacks. In May 2009, the Court of Appeal reversed the earlier decision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pringles

https://www.kelloggs.co.uk/content/dam/europe/kelloggs_gb/pdf/The nostalgia is real Pringles launches NEW Retro Console Clinic as 80 percentage of Brits fall back in love with 00s and 90s tech.pdf

Joystick but no keyboard is going to limit the IF options. That said it might be a great way to play gamebooks.

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he expressed dissatisfaction with the Wii port, referring to it as not being ‘original.’

Assuming we aren’t missing some nuisance in the translation I don’t think I agree with this interpretation. The “port” is not the “original”, that’s just a statement of fact. No dissatisfaction is implied.

As for the recommendation to play the port that runs on modern hardware, well yeah most people don’t have the hardware to play the pre-HD versions at their best.

“That being said, I want to call out the way Unity chose to communicate these layoffs. Receiving a 5am email from ‘noreply@unity’ informing me that my role was being ‘eliminated’ and that I’d lose system access by the end of the day felt completely abrupt and impersonal. Unity must do better in how they treat their workers in hard times like this.”

Ouch

Thanks

Availability of Video Games (originally released before 2010) is approximately 13 percent, slightly above pre-World War II audio recordings (10 percent or less) and below the survival rate of American silent films (14 percent).

These are fascinating numbers, do you have a source?

I think you forgot the link text?!

My share menu default to text with file based share as a secondary option.

10 years seems a bit short, that would mean Hearthstone, GTA5 and Sims 4 qualify.

They are just joking about not having friends but the “in the manner it was originally intended” is particularly relevant for dedicated co-op titles.

There a more games released now than ever, there are also more coop campaigns than ever.

https://www.co-optimus.com/games.php?campaign=true&playerCount=2

This site doesn’t seem to let me link to more specific filters but if you set release year to 2024 and choose a specific platform they list 214 PC titles, 128 Switch titles, 124 PS5 titles, and 97 Xbox Series titles from last year !

Edit: its a weird site, it wasn’t applying all the filters in the link it generated. So I’ve simplified the link and summarised the numbers.

I was more of an X-Wing fan myself but its a great series!

Puyo Puyo - lots of ports

Reskinned as:

• Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine - Mega drive, Master System, Game Gear
• Kirby’s Avalanche - SNES

If made today this could be “premium” DLC but it was an amazing product given the constraints of a 15 month development window and a need to use existing assets and engine features as much as possible.

Master of Orion - MS DOS, Mac OS