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TopicIs Steam Deck OLED the best gaming system get right now?
Punished_Blinx
11/16/23 11:54:53 PM
#25
Rika_Furude posted...
The fact you can actually buy one makes it superior to something you cant buy

Lenovo is coming out with an equivalent as well which may be better than both the ROG and steam deck

I'm in Australia and just bought an imported Steam Deck. Still worked out way cheaper than a ROG or Lenovo and that's with the added cost of adding a 1TB SSD.

When I'm ready to upgrade I'll probably go for one that's properly released here. Hopefully the rough edges with the Windows devices are sorted out by then. Legion Go does seem pretty good.

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TopicIs Steam Deck OLED the best gaming system get right now?
Punished_Blinx
11/16/23 11:33:03 PM
#19
AnsestralRecall posted...
Not when the ROG Ally exists

Isn't that the one that melts the SD card slot and ASUS is ignoring that's a problem

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TopicIs Steam Deck OLED the best gaming system get right now?
Punished_Blinx
11/16/23 11:21:16 PM
#15
hulkhogan1 posted...
Both can be true. Yes older games will play better on it but even the newest games youll still be able to play at 30fps for the most part. Chances are if youre buying a portable gaming system youre buying it for the portability, not because you want the most powerful thing out there.

Eh that's mostly because most games are still crossgen. Starfield is a mess unless you're in an interior. Alan Wake 2 is about 20fps. Returnal runs like crap. This is going to get more common as time goes on.

Do not buy a Steam Deck for new AAA games in 2023 unless it's a bonus thing and you already have a gaming PC or current gen console tbh

Keep in mind there's still something like 4 years left of this generation at a minimum.

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TopicIt's crazy how nobody really talks about Starfield anymore.
Punished_Blinx
11/16/23 11:15:50 PM
#12
Outside of Baldur's Gate 3 people have said this about every single game this year. I'm waiting for the topics about Spider-Man 2 any day now.

If you wanna talk about these games then talk about them. What else are you expecting?

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TopicIs Steam Deck OLED the best gaming system get right now?
Punished_Blinx
11/16/23 11:14:42 PM
#13
Depends what you want.

If it's to play new AAA games then no.

If it's to play a large library of games portably or as an entry point to PC gaming then yeah.

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TopicBiden call Xi a dictator for China having a different form of government.
Punished_Blinx
11/16/23 10:18:22 PM
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cjsdowg posted...
Like I don't know if dude's a dictator or not.



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TopicThe Marvels opens with $47 million. Lowest MCU opening ever.
Punished_Blinx
11/16/23 10:11:45 PM
#126
The problem goes way beyond MCU writing with the sheer amount of bombs in theaters this year.

People are only going to go to the cinemas in droves for an event movie. Superhero movies aren't an event by default anymore. People didn't even bother showing up for Michael Keaton returning as Batman.

Audiences were very, very harsh to franchises that felt tired this year. Marvel has suddenly found itself right on that same hole with DC and as we've seen with them it's a very tough hole to dig out of.

I think we're very quickly going to find ourselves back in a world where people only show up for Spider-Man, Batman and the X-Men.

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TopicWashington Post published an article on AR-15s and mass shootings today and
Punished_Blinx
11/16/23 9:55:49 PM
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Southernfatman posted...
They won't care.

Yep.

Remember when they mocked Obama for shedding a tear after he went to Sandy Hook?

Think about their reaction to both Sandy Hook and Parkland. They don't even bother reacting anymore.

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TopicThe Marvels opens with $47 million. Lowest MCU opening ever.
Punished_Blinx
11/16/23 9:18:04 PM
#124
It's just one of those things really. Eventually people get bored of more of the same.

The Gerard Butler and Liam Neeson action movies of today don't review particularly well as they're based on movies that revolutionised cinema four decades ago but they do their job and have their audience.

I wonder if that's the future of superhero movies eventually.

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TopicWashington Post published an article on AR-15s and mass shootings today and
Punished_Blinx
11/16/23 6:34:35 PM
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darkace77450 posted...
If the shooting happened in the River Oaks community of Houston instead of Uvalde and Ted Cruz's daughter had been among the children destroyed by that weapon, I suspect he'd change his tune on gun control. So long as the victims are other people's children, he and his ilk won't budge. They don't care.

If he did change his tune then the party would pressure him to quit 'for his mental wellbeing'

The depths Republicans will go do not surprise me anymore.

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TopicWashington Post published an article on AR-15s and mass shootings today and
Punished_Blinx
11/16/23 5:27:58 PM
#43
Look at this article from 1968

https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,902311,00.html

For the first time since Robert Kennedy's assassination, the surviving Kennedy brother returned to his desk in the back row of the Senate. Teddy Kennedy came back at a poignant and appropriate moment. After the gunshot killings of Bobby and Martin Luther King, the Johnson Administration drew up gun-control legislation that went considerably beyond an earlier law that forbade the mail-order sale of revolvers and automatics. Chin cradled in hand, Ted Kennedy last week watched the Senate debate that measure.

The bill passed by an overwhelming 70 to 17. Aimed chiefly at helping the states enforce their own firearms-control laws by severely restricting the mailorder traffic in rifles, shotguns and ammunition, the law would make it impossible to order long gunsas did Lee Harvey Oswaldfrom an out-of-state gun mail-order house. Even within his own state, the buyer who orders a gun by mail will have to wait at least one week before the dealer ships the weapon. Similarly, when the gun buyer goes to an adjoining state to purchase a gun over the counter, he must wait a week before it will be handed to him.

Even so, many advocates of tighter gun laws are disappointed that the present bill omits the two principles that Bobby Kennedy had sought: 1) that every firearm in the U.S. be registered, and 2) that every gun owner be required to seek a federal license. It may take another act of horror to push really effective gun curbs through Congress.

Think of how many tragedies like this could have been avoided if these were implemented properly all the way back in 1968. Honestly feels like there's no hope of anything changing until the kids of today are old enough to do something about it. By then we're looking at them trying to make up for a century of bad choices and morals and that's assuming the country still isn't split over it.

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TopicWashington Post published an article on AR-15s and mass shootings today and
Punished_Blinx
11/16/23 5:02:25 PM
#35
It's worth reading the article and not just scrolling through the pictures on Reddit. The article has accounts from survivors and people who arrive afterwards to survey the carnage and it makes it even worse. The videos of the concert and people hiding in the school are haunting too.

Just fucking hell. What a depressing and disturbing read. Nothing is worth this.

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TopicWashington Post published an article on AR-15s and mass shootings today and
Punished_Blinx
11/16/23 4:15:11 PM
#27
Innocent little kids who should have had the right to feel safe at school instead had to spend their final moments huddled in a corner together before being murdered. Parents dropped off their kids that day and didn't know that they wouldn't get to tuck them back into bed that night.

It's honestly a bit disgusting that a country can be so proud of itself while having scenes like that happen several times and being treated as an inevitability.

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TopicHas anyone noticed Robert Pattinson says weird things in interviews
Punished_Blinx
11/15/23 11:52:13 PM
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Just saw someone tweet a quote from this article

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/robert-pattinson-designed-this-elegant-ear-shaped-sofa

There was a time when the only piece of furniture I had for about six months was an inflatable boat that would double as my couch, bed, and dining table. I loved it very much but it caused a lot of back problems.

Of course people seem to be taking this at face value. But I recalled something. This isn't the first time he has said something outlandish

I had a stalker while filming a movie in Spain last year. She stood outside of my apartment every day for weeks all day every day. I was so bored and lonely that I went out and had dinner with her. I just complained about everything in my life, and she never came back. People get bored of me in, like, two minutes.

I have extraordinarily heavy saliva. Its funny, I noticed it the other day. If I try to spit, I can only get it about a foot. Someone informed me the other day its because Ive got heavy saliva. I thought it was because I didnt have much lip power Have you ever had someone spit on you in kind of an erotic way? Its pretty great.

[The best smell is] definitely the scent of when youre in love with someone, and the smell is incredible. It brings out an animal side of being human. And the worst smell um. I dont really mind grimy stuff. I love the smell of things people really hate, but burning hair is revolting Lots of people tell me I smell like a crayon Like Im embalmed.

"The first time I went to see the circus, somebody died. One of the clowns died. His little car exploded. The joke car exploded on him.

I'm sure some people have noticed but people seem to be still falling for his purposefully bullshit stories and it's pretty hilarious.

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TopicSo cool that Super Mario Wonder saves your game like a normal game
Punished_Blinx
11/15/23 10:27:59 PM
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StormSignal posted...
i loved wonder and was thinking of picking up nsmbu deluxe next but now i am hesitant <_< i still don't fully remember/understand how the system works, like do you need X amount of coins or whatever every time you want to save or just when you open the new point or what?

From memory it boots you back to the main menu after you save and deletes it when you load it. Can't remember if there are further limits.

The point is making you redo levels if you get a game over. It's weird.

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TopicThe Marvels opens with $47 million. Lowest MCU opening ever.
Punished_Blinx
11/15/23 9:28:02 PM
#117
It's funny to think that just 4 years ago Disney was on top of the world. People were excited that Endgame was going to overtake Avatar's box office record.

Nowadays Avatar took back the box office record and Avatar 2 is Disney's biggest saving grace of the past year. So much for that lack of cultural relevance.

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TopicStarfield didn't make it to GOTY nominations
Punished_Blinx
11/15/23 9:06:43 PM
#32
NoxObscuras posted...
Yeah this. It was still fun, but not GOTY material. There was a lot that they just didn't get right, at all. Maybe if they make a Starfield 2?

That is a bit of a shame when it comes to modern AAA games. Their next game is Elder Scrolls. They'll probably wanna go back to Fallout after that.

If you estimate a 5 year development time you're looking at 10-15 years for a potential Starfield 2.

The days of figuring out stuff for a sequel is over unfortunately. It's why so many AAA games are so samey.

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TopicThere are rumors Will Smith had sex with Duane Martin during Fresh Prince
Punished_Blinx
11/15/23 8:38:18 PM
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LeoRavus posted...
I mean she's denying it without being there. That would be like Melania going to battle over all Donald's alleged mistresses. She don't know what happened

She was asked about it. TMZ hasn't had the chance to hound Will Smith over it yet.

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TopicSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice League gameplay & story trailer
Punished_Blinx
11/15/23 8:28:16 PM
#30
BakonBitz posted...
The thing that killed Avengers for me was the gameplay and its progression loop, not the live service stuff. So if Rocksteady has an addicting and fun gameplay structure then this might be pretty good to me.

Spoilers: The loop is going to be shooting waves of bad guys to earn XP, resources and loot.

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TopicStarfield didn't make it to GOTY nominations
Punished_Blinx
11/15/23 8:21:41 PM
#17
I remember being absolutely sick of the Bethesda formula when Skyrim came out. That was a lot of people's entry for it but at that point I had played a whole bunch in a few years.

Now I like and appreciate them. Nobody else really makes them and they take half a decade to come out.

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TopicWhy won't the world leave Will Smith alone?
Punished_Blinx
11/15/23 8:19:57 PM
#41
People acting like Will Smith is some poor and helpless victim because of his wife continue to be very strange. I don't think anyone in this family is capable of being private with their drama or ambitions.

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TopicThere are rumors Will Smith had sex with Duane Martin during Fresh Prince
Punished_Blinx
11/15/23 8:08:49 PM
#14
Hornezz posted...
Why even spread this shit

He spread his cheeks not his shit

streamofthesky posted...
I refuse to believe the dirt that Jada has on Will that leads to him tolerating all her humiliation is simply that he's in the closet.
Even 30 years ago, a gay person would come out before putting up w/ the unending bs she's heaped upon him.
He's gotta have WAY darker secrets than that (being gay isn't even a "dark secret")

They're probably just sexually liberated people who think it's deeper than what it is.


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TopicStarfield didn't make it to GOTY nominations
Punished_Blinx
11/15/23 8:07:46 PM
#11
I think Bethesda games are just kinda like the CODs and Ubisoft games. People know what to expect and they're popular but they don't blow people away anymore.

People will still be playing it years from now as it constantly improves with mods and the like so I don't think it overly matters.

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TopicRumor: Pedro Pascal offered the role of Mr. Fantastic
Punished_Blinx
11/15/23 7:13:58 PM
#36
St0rmFury posted...
Who's gonna be Johnny Storm?

Chris Evans

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TopicThinking of switching to PC. Is this a good deal?
Punished_Blinx
11/15/23 6:46:40 PM
#30
royic posted...
Don't buy a GPU with less than 16GB of VRAM if you want to play current gen games that are made for consoles first. PS5 has 16GB of VRAM and games like Jedi Survivor and Last Of Us Remake are coming to the PC market expecting that, too.

What the hell happened. Everyone in 2020 was raving about how great value those 3000 cards were and they're already dated in a few years? Felt like the 1000 series cards lasted great for ages.

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TopicTom Holland is depressed and hates holloywood
Punished_Blinx
11/15/23 6:19:00 PM
#173
It's definitely a double edged sword when it comes to fame. Sure you have the freedom to spend money on anything but you can't eat at a restaurant or go to the shops on a whim without it becoming a big deal. In a way it's exchanging some freedoms for others.

Being rich and not famous would be much better.

Not sure why people get so bitter and angry when they talk about it. At the end of the day they're just people as well. If he decides to have kids with Zendaya pictures of that kid becomes a valuable commodity. It's a really fucking weird life.

When your entire life is a business and a resource to a lot of people it changes the dynamics with everyone in your life. It's probably worth it but the grass is always greener as they say.

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TopicI have bad feelings that Usian media bias will snub BG3 out since it's aEuroRpg
Punished_Blinx
11/15/23 5:58:57 PM
#38
epik_fail1 posted...
What's a seppo?

An Usian

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TopicI have bad feelings that Usian media bias will snub BG3 out since it's aEuroRpg
Punished_Blinx
11/15/23 5:46:02 PM
#34
I'm an Australian and I've never heard of a seppo called a Usian.

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TopicRemember Tulsi Gabbard?
Punished_Blinx
11/15/23 5:19:15 PM
#46
SuperSaiyanTien posted...
She had a lot of progressive talking points + actions taken during her career in politics.

She was demonized by the DNC / Hillary Clinton. Look into it. Hillary ran some bogus claim that Tulsi was a russian plant to ensure Trump would win the election by siphoning votes from the Democrats v via Third Party (which did not happen by the way). They absolutely did not want Tulsi to have a chance. They sabotaged her and Bernie.

You're just making me think that people should have listened to Hilary more than they did.

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TopicCE: "Man Taylor Swift fans are weird"
Punished_Blinx
11/15/23 5:10:48 PM
#13
A popular musician and CEman insisting they have never heard a single song of theirs is a pretty iconic duo.

In all seriousness the internet does this about anything with a large female audience and then proceed to go apeshit when a director says he doesn't like Marvel movies.

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TopicJada denies her husband was getting aggressively murdered in the ass over couch
Punished_Blinx
11/15/23 4:35:04 PM
#29
pegusus123456 posted...
This should confirm that it was bullshit because Jada would not miss an opportunity to humiliate Will.

"This rumor is absolutely false. The only noise Will makes when he is getting pounded in the ass is muffling his sobbing."

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TopicJada denies her husband was getting aggressively murdered in the ass over couch
Punished_Blinx
11/15/23 4:32:15 PM
#24
Brother Bilaal better protect those cheeks because Will is itching for a slap

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TopicCongressman Joaquin Castro is calling for an investigation into Warner Bros.
Punished_Blinx
11/15/23 4:30:35 PM
#18
iceman9820 posted...
I feel like the tax loophole should work the other way around. Instead of having to vault the projects forever, they should have to be made available to everyone for free forever.

Corporations would rather go bankrupt than give anything of theirs away for free forever. So yeah that should work lol

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TopicBREAKING NEWS: Travis Kelce and Taylor Swifts parents to ACTUALLY MEET at game
Punished_Blinx
11/15/23 4:12:11 PM
#14
Hopefully Taylor Swift has learned and won't give any of his family her sweater.

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TopicSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice League gameplay & story trailer
Punished_Blinx
11/15/23 3:41:04 PM
#25
TheGoldenEel posted...
i sort of understand games that started in development years ago, but how does a company look at the flop Avengers was and think this is the way forward

So many developers and publishers think it will be their game that gets both the single player and multiplayer audience somehow.

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TopicSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice League gameplay & story trailer
Punished_Blinx
11/15/23 3:04:00 PM
#22
Don't worry everyone they're also working on Wonder Woman!

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/wonder-woman-job-listing-suggests-it-may-be-a-live-service-game/

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TopicSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice League gameplay & story trailer
Punished_Blinx
11/15/23 2:55:19 PM
#19
MC_BatCommander posted...
Is there any AAA game coming out that has less hype than this

FairGame$ is the only one I can think of.

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TopicKaitlyn Dever to play Abby in The Last of Us season 2?
Punished_Blinx
11/15/23 5:55:22 AM
#25
WalkingPlague posted...
what?

horrible takes like this are the reason why films suck. the lack of detail. abby should 100% be more bulky than the average female.

the first time i seen abbys arms i said holy shit, shes jacked.

this girl needs to put on a good 20lbs of bull or find someone more suitable for the part.

It's not about lack of detail. Physical appearance isn't necessarily the most important thing when it comes to acting in a role. The ability of the actor, how they portray that role and their chemistry with their co-stars are more important.

Which is why nobody cares anymore that Wolverine isn't a little guy because Hugh Jackman defined that role for himself anyway.

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TopicKaitlyn Dever to play Abby in The Last of Us season 2?
Punished_Blinx
11/15/23 4:01:16 AM
#19
I actually don't really care if she isn't buff in the TV show. It isn't that important for her character.

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TopicWhy Are Right-Wingers Super Salty Over Hogwarts Legacy Not Getting Game Award?
Punished_Blinx
11/15/23 3:33:20 AM
#63
RchHomieQuanChi posted...
Yup, right-wingers have terrible media literacy.

They unironically think shit like Robocop represents conservative politics because the main character is a cop who brutally executes criminals. That's exactly how much "thought" they're willing to put into anything.

One of the reasons Stephen Colbert stopped being a conservative parody was because people unironically believed he was real and followed him.

Anytime conservative politics are satired it happens. Its sadly hilarious.

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Topicboogie2988 calls out TGA for politically snubbing Hogwarts Legacy.
Punished_Blinx
11/15/23 3:07:02 AM
#137
Inohira posted...
It got one nomination.

It reviewed much better than Hogwarts Legacy and only got one?

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Topicboogie2988 calls out TGA for politically snubbing Hogwarts Legacy.
Punished_Blinx
11/15/23 2:11:26 AM
#134
Inohira posted...
It's probably the highest rated triple A game this year that didn't make the cut. Ya'll can believe the cutoff just naturally fell right above HL but that seems awfully coincidental.

Dead Space?

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Topicboogie2988 calls out TGA for politically snubbing Hogwarts Legacy.
Punished_Blinx
11/14/23 11:33:04 PM
#115
Are TC and Boogie gonna ask why Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora got snubbed in the 2025 Game Awards if it isn't nominated for anything?

They should to be consistent no?

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TopicThe HARD truth of video game prices : The Industry has NO pricing power
Punished_Blinx
11/14/23 10:59:41 PM
#37
WingsOfGood posted...
look at the graph

mobile is ADDED onto the total industry value

so console games are still making record profits and continuing to climb and explode

What do you think the most popular games on consoles are?

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Topicboogie2988 calls out TGA for politically snubbing Hogwarts Legacy.
Punished_Blinx
11/14/23 10:44:38 PM
#105
Inohira posted...
I dunno, but all those games got nominated for other categories. They don't need additional focus.

Sonic Superstars only got nominated for Best Family Game.

Every other game listed reviewed better than Hogwarts Legacy. Why wouldn't the better games be nominated more often?

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TopicThe HARD truth of video game prices : The Industry has NO pricing power
Punished_Blinx
11/14/23 10:41:10 PM
#25
You're making the assumption that those record profits are coming from traditional video games and not because of GAAS and mobile games. Live services make up 73% of EA's revenue.

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