evujumenuk
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- Comment on Google will throttle your Pixel 10's battery, and there's nothing you can do about it 1 week ago:
Will it not add artificial slowing regardless? I think the controversial aspect of this strategy is that it doesn’t care about the state of the battery, it just counts cycles.
- Comment on Google will throttle your Pixel 10's battery, and there's nothing you can do about it 1 week ago:
Apple throttled (and continues to throttle) device performance because going full power draw on a battery with higher than specified internal resistance will just end in a device shutdown.
They do this once there’s a first unexplained shutdown. So that takes your actual battery health into account. In contrast, Google says “200 charges should be enough for anybody” and imposes its policy no matter what your actual battery looks like.
- Comment on Steam Deck sales drop hard following the Nintendo Switch 2 announcement 7 months ago:
The Switch catalog was limited in no small part because the device just couldn’t give acceptable performance for a lot of contemporary cross-platform games. That, of course, didn’t matter for first-party titles.
Switch 2 performance is projected to end up somewhere around a base PS4, with better GPU but somewhat diminished CPU. However, it’s going to have more memory than the Xbox Series S that teams had trouble porting their games to.
The Switch 2 might benefit a lot from this generation’s extended cross-gen period. Add that to franchises like Fire Emblem, Metroid, Mario, Mario Kart, Pikmin and Zelda, and the average consumer is going to think of Steam as the “limited” platform.
A lot of conjecture, and maybe Switch 2 will turn out to be a monumental flop. I’m cautiously optimistic.
By the way, the old, selective policy that Nintendo exercised is pretty much a thing of the past. Just browse through the eShop for three minutes.
- Comment on PC game development surges in Steam Deck handheld era — But don't count Xbox and PlayStation out 7 months ago:
Nintendo has moved over 140 million Switch consoles. The Switch 2 might become more, or less successful, but let’s just conservatively assume they’ll only sell half as many this time around.
Last time I checked, the entire Deck-like category amounted to some seven-digit number of sold devices. The idea that anyone targeting that level of performance is going to skip the Switch 2… is wildly unrealistic.