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So I've been seeing news articles about BC numbers, and it was originally claimed that 1.5% of an Xbox One user's time was spent on BC. MS could have left it alone and let console war faggotry run its course, but no... They decided they needed to refute the study as having shitty data and trying to defend their BC numbers. Well, now they made the mistake of having Mike Nichols report the numbers. Of course they report big numbers to make it sound impressive, but lets break it down.

They say that a bit over 508m hours of BC games have been played. So lets assume there are 30m Xbox One users. That means each user has averaged 16.93 hours total. In the 19 months BC has been out, that would average 53.47 minutes a month, or about 12.34 minutes a week. If that is 1.5%, then that means each person averages 13.71 hours a week on their Xbox One between shit like playing games and watching shit on Netflix. Is it so hard to believe that people spend an average of at least 14 hours using their Xbox One each week? Hell, 2 hours of Netflix/Games a day covers that... If anything the 1.5% seems like it is highballing the shit out of BC usage.

Now that I've had my fun pointing out how idiotic MS is, it is time to cut down to business. Who here thinks BC is pointless? It is a feature that certain people want, even if it is mostly ignored by the masses. Do you have any features you use on your console/PC other than playing games? Do you browse the internet, send messages to friends, or so on? If those features you use were ignored by the masses, would you want them removed from your console/PC?

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SL round 2.

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does /v/ listen to any gaming podcasts?

pic related is pretty god tier

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Is he right?

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In a 2013 interview with IGN, when asked about the future of F-Zero, Miyamoto had this to say:

>I certainly understand that people want a new F-Zero game. I think where I struggle is that I don't really have a good idea for what's new that we could bring to F-Zero that would really turn it into a great game again. Certainly I can see how people looking at Mario Kart 8 could see, through the anti-gravity, a connection to F-Zero. But I don't know, at this point, what direction we could go in with a new F-Zero.

Does this make sense? Is Nintendo right for not wanting to bring back F-Zero until they figure out how to evolve it, instead of just releasing a new game that plays exactly like the old ones?

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First time readers welcome. Come and experience one of /v/'s best pastimes

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GOTTA GET BACK
BACK TO THE PAST
Doodly doodilu doodly doop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecffZBdhAUU

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What went wrong?

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Benjamin Plich was the lead designer on Assassin's Creed: Unity and For Honor, and is currently employed as lead game designer at Montreal's Reflector Entertainment.
>Breath of the Wild showed something most designers already know, but which is hard to achieve... [these games are] evolving from classic open worlds to an open-game model - open progression following each player's intrinsic motivations, adaptive challenge curve and economy, open narrative structures, and so on.
Damien Monnier served as senior designer on The Witcher 3 at CD Projekt RED
>Breath of the Wild has managed to bring classic open world mechanics together while not relying on them to guide the player through its world. You go and explore it because you wonder what's out there, not because a loot icon tells you to.
>My expectations, and I mean for me as a Zelda fan, have changed for sure - they've raised the bar when it comes to world crafting and this sense of total immersion I get when I play it. While its world includes classic open-world activities, collectibles and loot-filled mobs, it definitely doesn't feel overloaded and allows the focus be on the exploration. You want to explore this land whether or not you are on a quest, or being tasked to collect/gather something. You know, If you were to remove all NPCs, quests and mobs, I would still take pleasure in exploring that beautiful world.

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>he doesn't main Don Patch

Explain yourselves

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Super Mario 64

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I can't think of a single game with kisses.

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https://twitter.com/abigbat/status/870679419710447616

Did this guy just leak Soul Reaver/Blood Omen?

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So I've been to LACC recently to do some setup work on E3 (not gonna say what) so there are some things I can tell y'all about Nintendo's showfloor. Sorry no pics cause 1. I was busy 2. Didn't want to get into trouble on the day itself but now that I'm done and I can take advantage of the internet mask of anonymity thought I might as well have some fun. Many people won't believe me (partly because I have a feeling that Ninty fanboys are going to be pretty disappointed about this... denial and all that) but fuck it

First things first not everything was set up so maybe there will be more stuff but I really doubt there's anything major left. And again this is the showfloor so this may not be all they talk about during their direct but it's a safe bet

First things first, no Metroid, Animal Crossing, Pikmin 4 (although Hey Pikmin is there), Smash Bros, F-Zero (to any fool who still belived nintendo is making more of these), Pokemon Stars. All of these do not exist on the showfloor. Ninty fans hoping for these (and from what I know there are a lot) will be disappointed so don't say you weren't warned

Mario Odyssey is the main highlight as expected. There's statues of Mario holding his sentient cap, the Hat flying machine, Bowser in his pimp costume. Nothing we haven't seen before. The booth is decorated to look like New Donk City and there are like 20+ monitors set up there for the public to play. I didn't get to of course, the switches were not set up there yet. There is a video feed, though, and there is new stuff shown:

1. Mushroom Kingdom appears to be a playable level. Probably the intro level. Other new levels shown are a Haunted Mansion of sorts as well as a sky level with towers

2. Old powerups -- fire flower, starman, propeller hat, cloud hat return, though the powerups themselves are not seen. I suspect they are tied to the Crazy Cap store and the sentient hat this time instead of pickups.

Will continue posting below since I'm hitting the word limit

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social link start
>y shud i study whats the point

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>im gonna study more

and you fags gave yukiko shit for the same thing