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  • The PS3 actually ended up outselling the 360 slightly. Like, very slightly. Couple 100k units or so. It’s probably the most balanced console generation in terms of sales.

    Then Microsoft launched the Xbox One and Sony wiped the floor with them.

    Honestly, if Sony just only added half as much shit to the PS3, like skip all those card readers god damn, they probably could’ve gotten away with being slightly more expensive than the 360. I mean, the 360 on launch didn’t have an HDMI port, didn’t have WiFi, none of the 360s come with a Blu-ray player (when movies just started being sold on Blu-ray and being a DVD player was one of the reasons the PS2 sold so damn well), you had to pay for multiplayer (I think that was in at launch, right?) and the console itself just kept bricking. Like, on a consumer side technical level, the only thing it had going for it was the controller. But, give it a year headstart and make it cheaper than the competition and that shit stops mattering for quite a while.



  • Ser Salty@feddit.deto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRulegret
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    11 months ago

    I personally always really liked the games. Like the first three on PC (the PS2 versions seem good as well, I just had the PC versions), and those had the huge advantage of being scored by Jeremy Soule.

    And I gotta say, the environment artists on Hogwarts Legacy really knocked it out of the park. I’ve watched some streams and videos and the castle and Hogsmeade look really cool.


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    11 months ago

    I think a large part of it is the interesting visuals (well, descriptions of them), like everything being crooked and off base in Diagon Alley, and the silly names, like Diagon Alley. For a kid or teenager, that’s pretty interesting and unique.

    I actually genuinely think she never expected to write more than one or two books. The first one feels a lot like she was going for something Terry Pratchett-esque, like a parody/comedy version of a fantasy setting. Like, a lot of the silly naming conventions started appearing less and less as the books went on.