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Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo (www.videogameschronicle.com)
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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

Kirby sucks and blows anyway

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    • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    What a chad move

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    [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Based. Unskippable logo screens are a nuisance.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    PSA: On PS5, after launching your game, hit the PS button. If there are activities, you can probably hit square to resume. This speeds through all the startup wankery and the main menu straight to loading your save. It rarely saves time, but it means you can launch your game and walk away to get a glass of water or whatever. I enjoy it.

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    • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    User experience over marketing.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Honestly, 5.1 surround sound is worth waiting the extra like 2 seconds of the logo. The fact that the game only has mono or stereo sound output just because he didn't want to have a logo on the screen for a few seconds is not putting user experience over marketing.

    It would honestly make more sense that Nintendo told him he couldn't add it because they didn't want to pay for it and this is how he justified it to himself.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    If it was money thing, couldn't he just say "I needed as much coin as I could scrape up to get Sora from Disney" like he basically said with the last wave of DLC characters?

    Maybe it's my nostalgia glasses, but this is something I actually believe coming from Sakurai. The man almost hates useless ads as much as Lemmy users.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Most households have a TV with TV speakers, only capable of L/R. Why pay money and have people sit through a corporate short film for a feature most won't use?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Its two seconds for the benefit of 5.1, so the people that have it can benefit. And the people that don't can upgrade later.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The problem people have with your argument is not the existence of 5.1 surround sound.

    Nor is it that the vast majority of households can’t afford a properly tuned surround sound setup instead of haphazardly throwing speakers around which arguably creates a worse experience than stereo.

    It’s that the Dolby implementation requires publishers to license it and pay for an unstoppable ad that plays before every session, while benefitting only the petit bourgeois.

    Notice how you reverted so quickly to your capitalist brainwashing. May be a good inspiration to see what other ideologies have been implanted into you.

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    • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    It's especially weird to have all that time dedicated to something nobody cares about. Who goes looking to see if a game or movie was made using Dolby?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

    This comment should be deleted soon

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    You don't need to be reminded about sound encoding every time you boot the game even if you do care.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

    This comment should be deleted soon

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Okay, and their ego maniacs for thinking they're that big of a part of the game to be credited everytime. That's why most people in the thread applaud the move.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    This comment should be deleted soon

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That information belongs in the specs/feature list on the encasing, not in the fucking splash screen as dedicated video.

    For the buyer that would be too late and for the one who bought it already and now wants to play it's utterly pointless.

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