Wild because games in the $20-$40 range have been killing it the last couple years.

Maybe instead of charging more, big developers could spend less on overhead and bureaucracy. Palworld is made by 4 guys and has sold more in a few weeks than most AAA releases last year. Hifi Rush, cyberfunk bomb rush, subnautica if you want examples out of early access.

Maybe instead of gamers getting used to higher prices, game publishers should get used to lower sales until they wise the fuck up.

I take naps every Wednesday and never on other days of the week. This one simple trick has increased my odds of waking up on a Wednesday to 1/4!

Hell yes

I want a vampire-survivors style game that integrates with my music streaming and the enemies/weapons sync to the music I’m playing.

Horny internet nerds prefer cartoons instead of real women

“Have you tried being happy? That fixed my depression”

Future lemmy users in this screenshot

Wow you are truly insufferable, aren’t ya?

“Some of those Nazis are dumdums that make sweeping statements”

???

He also knows HTAL - How to Assault Ladies

Valve’s hardware strategy up to this point has been to push into new markets via hardware innovation. So I’m very skeptical that the hypothetical successor to the deck is a more powerful version of the deck. They’ll let other hardware manufacturers push those limits and reap the benefits via software sales. The deck was exceptionally successful in that regard, it’s literally opened an entire market segment.

Whatever the “Deck 2” comes to be, I expect it will be poised to capture a different market segment, possibly AR/VR or even modular handheld hardware (totally unfounded speculation), but I sincerely doubt they have much interest in releasing a more powerful version of the same thing every few years.

Who knows, though. Valve’s gonna valve and the only thing they do with any consistency is change things up.