A very interesting article I found. It looks like after a rather exhaustive search, it's been pretty much confirmed that 2.4 ghz is the only model they ever made of this controller.
Just so everyone understands, Nintendo, along with MS and Sony, have record profits. So, you know, any time they claim that they simply MUST jack up video game prices or do any of these other exploitative things, or in Nintendo's specific case, they simply MUST attack their own biggest fans for making what amounts to interactive fan art or just plain tools, just keep that in mind. They don't have to. They choose to.
And apparently, according to the below video, this chart is already accounting for inflation.
I suppose if there's one thing to take from this, it's that video games aren't too cheap now, they were too expensive in the 80's and 90's! We did already kind of know this. Keep in mind that Sega did pretty well in the US during the 16 era, and they were consistently charging less for their cartridge components than Nintendo. Nintendo themselves also overcharged for their parts during the N64 era, which was a daring move when Sony was able to charge quite a bit less.
And then compare that to today, when manufacturing costs are basically nil because most people already buy digital over physical. Keep in mind that economies of scale matter for file hosting too, so that it's basically free at the scale of a company like Microsoft. They were going to have those servers up ANYWAY, see.
EA is going to implement "thoughtful" ads in their games. The way they're talking about it like it'll be a new thing, it sounds like this is going to be a far cry from the billboards in modern cityscapes that games already do. It sounds like gameplay will be interrupted by advertising. And they want to charge $70 for the privilege. Screw that.
I'll just not buy games that do this. I'm not compromising on this, at all. One game stuck a full game interrupting ad inside back in retro days, and it was done as a joke:
Of course, the Tom's Hardware article got this right from the horse's mouth, so they can't say anything bad about it or risk losing access.
Many methods and tricks have been made available, but here is a little program that manages to properly convert the stats of all those original pokemon in the color and metal generations of pokemon to the gem generation. From there, they can be taken all the way to the modern era... but for not much longer. As I predicted when Pokemon Bank first came out, the decision to lock the service as an online only thing rather than providing an offline storage option on your 3DS's SD card is going to kill that possibility in the very near future. It'll be left to hackers to pick up the slack.
Of course, corporations are now abusing whatever the original purpose was to prevent employees from having the freedom to find the best job. I'm very glad to see this done, coming into effect in August.
Now let's tackle NDAs, because right now those are being abused to force employees not to reveal abuse they've suffered.
So being bored I asked google genimi to task me with a UE something to do.
I began with asking for a code project. And to order the engine to call me skyfox from now on. Just accept it. I'm sky fox. and I could. Just Accept it.
Wasn't terribly happy with those idea so I asked about a puzzle game. Still calling me skyfox.. He he.. This is fun