I'm very curious how GiGO thinks they can do better

@Sound_Demon: Are you trying to bash liberals? Because everything you just described is what American conservatives are and have been doing for at least 4 decades. And it's working too, in large part because they've successfully convinced most Americans that liberals are to blame for all of the ways that conservatives have been slowly taking away your freedoms.

It's conservatives who authored the Patriot Act that abolished our rights to privacy and trial. It's conservatives who are continuously fighting to restrict our right to vote or maintain autonomy over our own bodies. It's conservatives who go to great lengths to try to rewrite history to conform to their narrative. It's American conservatives who are following the propaganda playbook written by Russia (truly the masters of the craft), and who have no problem lying to the American people and came up with alternate facts and weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. And remember that it was Donald Trump (the ultimate conservative) who loves Putin and Russia and suggested on camera that the solution to America's problem of gun violence is to take away everybody's guns!

"I love America. I love all the freedoms we used to have." - George Carlin

There are far better 3rd party controllers out there that offer more features for less than half the price, like the Kinvoca C25 Joy Pads. I don't know why GameSpot has been so hot to trot for the Hori controllers all this time.

Then it's a good thing I already have a large game library and enjoy replaying games I already own!

Affleck is done playing Batman? Fine. Now cast him as Old Man Wayne and move into the Batman Beyond cannon already!

Or, you know, make another origin story, like you're going to anyway.

With all of these announcements lately I have the bad feeling that, in the not too distant future, all "games" are just going to be NFT storefronts.

In other words, I can't wait to "play" Konami Mega Metal Gear Shop Gamma 2: NFT Ultra Complex: Zero: Win Force!!

I mean ... didn't they just announce it?

@id0ntkn0w7: Wow, dude. You really missed the mark(xism) there. Had you taken a second to think about what I wrote, you would have understood that I was arguing for capitalism and against socialism. At least, for full capitalism, not this current system of capitalism when it applies to profit and socialism when it applies to debt.

A bit on the nose with your user name. Thanks for being honest.

If these companies are going to profit from NFTs, then they should also pay auction prices to every author of every git commit that makes up the open source software used in their games. Because they're all about supporting the blockchain and its potential, right?

Wrong. It's just another example of companies getting away with privatizing profits but socializing debts. In this case, the debt is all of the uncompensated contributions by open source authors that these companies enjoy.

Sounds like Microsoft was expecting consumers to NEVER turn off their Xboxes, like what was recommended for early PCs.