Ah, right! Those came up earlier ITT already and i think i was bitching about it then, too. All this Sorny buffoonery blurs together at a certain point.
fwiw xbox did it first, theirs is "only" $149 tho (think it's $179 or something now), but had the usual build quality of microsoft hardware...
To further clarify, that "newer Hall effect" means that your new overpriced controller has non potentiomenter sticks. Hall effect gimbals go back decades, the fucking Saturn 3D pad came with a Hall effect thumbstick.
The sterilization and bleak culture of corporations have really been a disaster for wanting more freedom of expression without limits. It’s almost like a real life NPC meme that has routinely made more gaming and entertainment media hollow and hopeless in modern day.
In my case, I actually learned the hard way that after the release of the PS4 and XBOX One, the Nintendo Switch would probably be the last real gaming handheld that did its job and deliver what gaming was supposed to be — even if certain Mario and occasional JRPG titles were just okay at best.
Probably the wrong thread but I can't wait for the hall effect meme to die. It's not a better tech, it means you end up with weird calibration on a perfectly good stick rather than a part that wears over a long life.
Except it is better and its what every industrial joystick uses for a reason. No idea what you are talking about with weird calibration, potentiometers are the ones that end up with weird calibration in an attempt to stave off drift, hall effect won't ever drift or lose calibration, and is extremely precise. Graphite pad potentiometers are physically much less precise and have multiple points of contact causing physical wear, where as hall sticks only physically wear from the movement of the spring. The reason controllers don't use it is purely cost saving. All high end sim controllers use hall effect, racing wheels, flight sticks, etc.
Mini PCs charge a premium for the form factor, and are generally not very upgradable. If your main concern is just emulation, you are much better off just doing the classic used office pc and SFF gpu for half the price.
The calibration is just the Hall Effect sensors having a much smaller dead zone because they don't need a larger dead zone.
The spring wears on potentiometers too, it just starts drifting before that happens. N64 sticks are loose because the whole mechanism is plastic gears grinding on plastic, so it physically breaks down. Potentiometers are the same in that the metal contact is physically grinding against a graphite pad, over time the graphite on the pad wears down and you get dust or physical gaps on the potentiometer, which causes drift, along with the spring wearing out over time. I have no idea what the basis of your argument is because what you describe happening to hall sticks also happens to every other stick, springs wear out, but hall sticks have fewer points of physical contact so there is less that can actually wear down. If your spring gets loose just add a bigger deadzone, its not like the stick suddenly becomes less precise, the drift is because its so precise that the stick not being perfectly centered means its receiving an input to move.
I know this is a tirade but just assuming I've been given a choice between 1) a stick which will develop wear and eventually grow false inputs and 2) having to calibrate a dead zone parameter, I'll pick option 2 for the obvious convenience.
The one advantage PS5 has is that it's not digital only. I don't like digital, I never have.
Remind me how the PS5 works. If you insert a disc will it play it as is, or does it need to copy or download game files to the hard drive and download updates? If it's the latter, it's just a digital console with a physical license key.
Steam always censored some stuff, but outside of a few weird cases (I think there was a pick-up artist game or something that got banned?) it seems largely relegated to sexual depictions of minors, unless they've recently changed their rules. They're the only major non-porn platform that seems to even allow porn.
Except Nintendo which allows nudie stuff
Nintendo never allowed 18+ content, whereas Steam has allowed content to straight up pornography, albeit inconsistently due to an overzealous fear of anything potentially underage. If a Japanese game has its original version as 18+ that is never going on Nintendo uncensored
Full on nudity? I didn't know that. They definitely don't allow porn though.
There were some legitimate japanese games that got banned on Steam, likely because of an individual in the greenlit team had an axe to grind, such as Dungeon Travelers (a dungeon crawler franchise published by Aquaplus, originally developed on PSP and Vita) and Chaos;Head (an ADV game developed by MAGES from the Xbox360 days, which exceptionally received an appeal due of its ban generating a lot of noise on the Web). Whereas more questionable stuff were given the approval to release on Steam.
Nintendo's golden rule is that you have to obtain the proper rating from the appropriate regional rating board (CERO for Japan, ESRB for America, PEGI for Europe, IARC for International, etc.) in order for the game to be sold on the Switch. But yeah for example, those old 90's Sega Saturn mahjong games that were ported on the Nintendo Switch, such as Suchie-Pai, no longer have nude boobies because of CERO (the organization was born during the Gamecube/PS2 era).
