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Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33% to the lowest since launch 25 years ago, PS5 sales drop 25% (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I bought Minecraft for switch to play with my son. What a shit experience it was.

First off, it took like an hour of trial and error to even get the two of us playing in split screen. Then I realized that to render split screen the game had reduced the draw distance to like 1/4th of what it was on PC years ago. We dealt with it until we actually had a good area built up and the frame rate dropped to like 10fps. Then my wife accidentally let Minecraft update and it bricked split screen until I completely turned off the switches WiFi.

Recently purchased Java for PC, spent another hour getting couch co-op going on that and it's a completely different experience.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    To be fair, most of your complaint is about the hardware of a low-power device not being able to handle rendering double the game and then compensating accordingly.

    Which is an expected outcome.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    The game is advertised and sold as having split screen co-op. Having to mess with console settings to get it to work and the resulting experience being shit isn't excusable. Of course I didn't expect a full PC equivalent but I expected it to have a minimum of polish and optimization.

    If they couldn't make the game do split screen decently, they shouldn't put that as a feature. If the game can't be run decently in single player, they shouldn't have sold it at all.

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