Exactly. Nintendo is sort of known for crazy overcommitment. They really commit to the bit, wherever the wackiness takes them. Two screens? All in. Funky controller for 3 handed people? Ship it.
Nunchucks? Say no more.
Moving their entire line to a single portable device was probably one of their safer bets.
Sony though, everything is very much a slight twiddle of the prior version, and as you say, the side hustles all end up in the bin - sometimes with very little notice.
IMO, it's going to have to get much worse before it snaps, and when it snaps and there's an Arab Spring moment, it's going to be too late to recover any of it.
The world power era of the USA is over. The 'dangerous rogue nuclear state' era is here.
I tried gemini protocol for a bit to see if it did a decent job addressing this, but it doesn't.
We do legit need a 'smallweb' non-commercial sort of thing, but I suspect retreating to a BBS model is probably what is required.
"We're going to take a mid fast food chain that pretty much only exists in california and take it someplace else in such a way as to make sure that we burned our bridges in the only state where people care"
I noticed the same. The old macbook that I restored to become my 'writing' machine can sit asleep for a week (as I found out by accident) and just pops right up when opened.
My windows and linux laptops have so many sleep issues.
Exactly. Nintendo is sort of known for crazy overcommitment. They really commit to the bit, wherever the wackiness takes them. Two screens? All in. Funky controller for 3 handed people? Ship it. Nunchucks? Say no more.
Moving their entire line to a single portable device was probably one of their safer bets.
Sony though, everything is very much a slight twiddle of the prior version, and as you say, the side hustles all end up in the bin - sometimes with very little notice.