PSA: Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom Has Reportedly Leaked Online In Full
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Update: It might not be all that bad

Has anyone actually found the NSP/XCI somewhere?

I’ve found an update file but the base game doesn’t seem to be anywhere I have access to.

  • Sgagvefey@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Yes, designing the chips is obscenely expensive. Microsoft and Sony aren’t using off the shelf $5 SoCs. They’re partnering with AMD, using AMD’s IP, to make custom designs specifically tailored to their design goals. The fact that you think you can talk about R&D costs without understanding this basic reality is hilarious. Validating high performance custom SoC designs takes a tremendous amount of very limited capacity of small batch test manufacturing ability to get to an end product.

    I promise you Sony spent more developing their triggers than Nintendo did on the joycon. That actually is new tech. Putting IR and nfc sensors that already exist onto a controller isn’t that expensive. Developing new tech is where costs come from. Sony isn’t spending a couple hundred million. They’re spending billions, every year.

    Even after kicking their investment up for a switch 2 that can’t use an off the shelf chip because there isn’t one, they’re still spending less than half of what Sony does.

    • Prunebutt@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Surely. You won’t fail to supply any data to back up your ludicrous claims this time, will you?

      • Sgagvefey@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Do the search yourself with whatever source you trust. They all have the same information.

        Sony spent over 2 billion on R&D in gaming last year, which doesn’t count the guaranteed volume that’s also required to get leading edge chips. Nintendo still spent less than a billion (which is a big increase from the complete joke of investment leading into the switch, because the switch didn’t take any research).