Well good it's not just me. www.eurogamer.net/400-with-a-c...

FEX-speriments soon?

Fair points. I don't think they can dismiss that everybody is poor, and the competition on both sides of the markets they're straddling. The controller changes, Frame changes to more affordable, the Deck, all point to a target of a mainstream market, not hardcore Steam PC nerds. Could be wrong.

I take anything Gamers Nexus says with a grain of salt. They live to rage bait. Going higher than a PS5 sounds like a bit of a foot gun. On the PC side they're competing against last Gen midrange mini PCs around the $400-$500 range. That seems like the bottom of the hole they need to thread.

Specs say it's probably going to be relatively cheap. I expect around Deck pricing. No screen, no battery, about 6x more powerful but on older CPU/GPU platform tech. They have to know they need to slide in under the PS5/Xbox right? Can't imagine it'll be full PC pricing. So cheaper than the old ones

That's some weird logic. A lot of PC games are available on mobile and don't feel like mobile games. Fortnight, Slay the Spire, Dead Cells, Several Final Fantasies, Dredge, Knights of the Old Republic, Deep Rock Galactic, I could go on.

The Verge article says in like the second paragraph

"NCSoft are working on the cross platform title together for PC, iOS, and Android."

It's says PC right there. I'm not sure where this mobile only information is coming from.

The Verge article says in like the second paragraph

"NCSoft are working on the cross platform title together for PC, iOS, and Android."

It's says PC right there. I'm not sure where this mobile only information is coming from.

Sony is pretty not good at PC ports so that's not saying much. Also mobile gaming is kind of solved problem with the likes of Fortnite, Roblox etc. etc. Running just fine on mobile. Game engines scale pretty well these days. Destiny's mobile game looks amazing and runs at 120fps on my tablet.

I'm not sure where you got that quote. The Verge article says in like the second paragraph

"NCSoft are working on the cross platform title together for PC, iOS, and Android."

It's says PC right there. I'm not sure where this mobile only information is coming from.

It could be on steam? The Verge article says in like the second paragraph

"NCSoft are working on the cross platform title together for PC, iOS, and Android."

It's says PC right there. I'm not sure where this mobile only information is coming from.

The Verge article says in like the second paragraph

"NCSoft are working on the cross platform title together for PC, iOS, and Android."

It's says PC right there. I'm not sure where this mobile only information is coming from.

...the community servers. Short sighted game companies also seem to miss how community hosted servers make a much longer tale of a game. I can cite Rust, and a host of other OG online games of how community servers can still be managed and keep the game as a sort of "live service" in perpetuity.

then you go to a different server. Or you only ever play on private servers with your friends. Which is now often money gated. I'm thinking Fallout 1st payments enabling private servers for example. Also releasing server software doesn't negate hosted "offical" servers that live alongside...

Yes and no. Obviously a central match making system was more difficult back then, but also technology was more constrained. Not as much network bandwidth, compute, etc that might enable something like that now. It also left "match making" to user's. If you don't like how people play on one server...

...an thwart the anti-cheat server. Cheating was fairly rare back in the day when everyone could host their own server and the cheaters had a fair number of easy choices. Combine that with modern reporting and moderation efforts and I wager we'd have the gametopia we want.

You're heading in the right direction. The solution is the server being it's own release as it has for like half of video gaming's lifetime. The result is a sort of self selecting segregation. Cheaters are inherently lazy and will choose anti-cheat free servers before doing the work to get on...