u/TRQPL

WHAT HAPPENED ARE THEY OK

I've seen a lot of posts recently that are saying that even after Sony's decision to kill physical media, Nintendo is somehow as bad as them. As someone who is literally a self described Palworld fanboy, I hate to say it, but this is just objectively not true with so many factors as to why.

(THIS IS NOT JUSTIFICATION FOR WHAT NINTENDO DOES BTW)

Switch 2 is $450? Xbox Series S is $500, PS5 is $600.

Nintendo charges $20 for online? Sony charges $88, with another price hike on the way.

Nintendo has Game Key Cards? So has Xbox and PlayStation for over a decade, and they at least tell you.

Nintendo bricks consoles? Since when??? And the terms in the EULA are literally the same as Sony.

So much of what Nintendo does, Sony either does and usually in a far worse degree, but it never gets covered because Nintendo hate is way more popular.

In my opinion, the worst thing Nintendo has done is the Palworld lawsuit, which if they won, could've genuinely fucked over the whole monster catching genre by allowing Nintendo to basically own it via patents. But even then - they've basically lost it, Palworld will be perfectly fine, and Nintendo's chances of winning anything are basically 0. And even as someone who is again, a self described Palworld fanboy, I would still consider the death of physical media by Sony worse, as it will have massively bigger ramifications and will hurt every genre across all of gaming... and also will hurt Palworld.

Besides, Nintendo doesn't do layoffs, is at the very least, neutral on AI compared to Sony and Microsoft funding it directly, and is overall, a far better company than those 2. That doesn't make Nintendo good - but seriously, stop saying they're as bad as Sony or Microsoft.

They accepted $70 games, $100 GTA 6 that doesn't have a physical edition, and they will accept Sony killing all physical games. I fucking hate them so much and the fact that they drag the whole industry with them is so fucking annoying

Sony is going to kill all PS5 physical media starting in 2028. Shouldn't have to say this but this will have massively negative ramifications throughout the entire gaming industry and physical media as a whole.

Fuck Sony.

Sony is going to kill off their entire physical game production in 2028. This will have massively negative ramifications throughout the gaming industry and physical media industry as a whole.

Fuck Sony, and I will be boycotting until they reverse this decision.

If you want physical games to still exist, boycott Sony. It's the only way. Sony is planning to gut all physical game production in 2028. This will have massively negative ramifications through the gaming industry and the entire physical media industry as a whole.

Fuck Sony. I will be boycotting until further notice, and everyone here should be too.

I know optimization is boring and isn't being talked about, but I do hope that come 1.0, the game does get more optimized. I'd like to see some simple things, like

• The game staying with DX11 (DX12 is nice and may be needed for the most modern upscaling but still, DX11 is still the best for performance)
• Better DLSS implementation (game is currently on DLSS 3.1, should be upgraded to 4.5)
• FSR 4 and/or XeSS 3 implementation for non-NVIDIA users
• Rendering scale options for users who want to use TAAU/TSR upscaling

I also hope I get to see better CPU and VRAM optimizations, as bases can use a lot of CPU (or more like UE5 sucks and doesn't use the CPU very well but I hope that's something they can fix). I also end up having pseudo memory leaks as the game stores a lot of data when traveling to many places.

To be honest, Palworld is actually one of the best optimized UE5 games, as it's playable on old-ass NVIDIA 7-series cards, the MacBook M1 with 8GB of ram, and high end Android devices via PC emulation. But... it can always get better, and there are occasional pain spots that I hope are fixed when 1.0 comes.