@hystavito: It's been out for over a year, now. And those discounted copies we're talking about won't feature the DLC. Bethesda - who have already made a f**king killing on this title - are quite happy to ship the base-game for cheap, if it means there are more people then teed-up to pay for the DLC.
Just some marketing noise to raise interest ahead of the hi-res texture/PS4 Pro patch release.
I think the Twitter clarification at the top resolves it - Fallout 4 has sold/shipped more copies in its first 15 months of release than did Skyrim. It clearly hasn't sold as many units as Skyrim in total, a). because then Pete Hines would have said so from the outset and b). that's not very likely, is it, in view of the fact that Skyrim has been out for more than four times as long, has featured in numerous Steam sales, and was only recently released on Xbox One and PS4...?
In any event, I'm pleased for the Fallout franchise. It means we'll definitely get another one!
@akassassin11: Alaska, huh? Yeah, I can see why your broadband supply might not be ideal. The cost of laying cable/fibre over those distances for the paltry returns the providers would make... still, data-caps are shit. You have my sympathies.
My objections to streaming are not Luddite in nature - I'll embrace anything new, provided it improves upon what's incumbent. And in time, it will. We agree on that.
@akassassin11: I can see that the power players in the home streaming market are trying to force everybody around to their way of thinking, but until streaming becomes effectively indistinguishable from physical media, I'm staying where I am.
The best streaming service I've used has been Amazon's. The quality was good, and after a bit of early buffering the playback was dependable. Netflix seems plagued by lip-sync issues, whenever I try to use it. And the only other streaming solution I've ever used was Sky Go Extra, which streams Sky's premium live TV content - and that is rubbish of the highest order.
My broadband is (up to) 200Mbit cable, which should be plenty. As far as I'm concerned, I'm already doing everything that could reasonably be asked of me - it's streaming that needs to up its game.
@akassassin11: Yes, by the end, Sony had closed the gap. Though the abiding impression of that generation was that the 360 'won it'.
I bought a PS3 in 2010, after the third or fourth price-cut. I sold it the following year, having hardly ever used it as a gaming machine, when I acquired another way of watching Blu-rays. That was all the PS3 ever really was to me.
And as for streaming movies... not me. Can't stand it. But that's a debate for another time!
@jt2251: Interesting position... I guess the only way to show them that we care, in the long-run, is to withdraw our support and force them to win us back. Which is sorta-kinda why I'm not getting a Switch this year. I've been a 'Day 1' man in the past, but not this time.
@wafflekings: Hah!!! Maybe not quite that many, but of the two consoles it's the NES Classic in which I'm more interested.
Further to that point: Reggie's assertion that supply issues re the NES Classic have been "largely resolved" (or words to that effect...) are smelling like bullsh*t from where I'm standing. Three UK stores restocked over this weekend and then sold out within 20 minutes.
It's deliberate, of course. If they'd wanted to get another half-million machines made, they'd have been able to do so between November and now. They're drip-feeding a few dozen out every week or two to keep us interested in 'all things Nintendo' before the Switch comes out - but for people like me who've already decided not to buy a Switch yet, and who just want to buy a f**king NES Classic, y'know...?! It's extremely irritating and alienating, and it's eroding my love for the brand. And I've been a Nintendo player for almost 25 years.
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