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"no skill, only play!" OP is wasting everyones time here, including himself. You can't play the guitar if you refuse to learn how to play. Just go and return it while you still can.

How dare you speak ill of his majestys name

Haha cheers to that! I really enjoyed our conversation :) I hope you have a good week mate

I agree with your sentiment, after all what is a game console without games.

What I want isn't necessarily a unique architechture, rather I want a unique experience. I think looking at Smartphone landscape expresses my concerns much clearer. All phones today are basically just reskins of same phone in design, purpose and architechture. Sure there are some novelty phones with smaller audiences for the sake of novelty but what makes you choose a phone over the other is just marketing at this point. I'm afraid that's where we're headed with consoles. The difference is the home consoles are replaceable.

It's too early to decide if it was. Yes it was the safest bet, Even though PS4 had a great deal of success you also need to keep in mind, a lot of it was because of politics. Nintendo and MS made huge mistakes at that time and Sony basically ate their lunch.

The older generations were always innovative and pushed the envelop as far as possible, but now PS just a gaming PC that is not upgradable like an actual PC. if you don't recall, the most hyped thing about PS5 was the controller, which is not what you expect the main point of buying a new consol to be.

On the topic of exclusives, I personally hate them. I think it makes a false sense of value in modern consoles where in the past they were intentionally made to take advantage of the architecture to showcase the unique quirks (and ofc the power) of this machine in a tiny box. Now they are usually just political leverages even though the games can be ported to other platforms.

So to reiterate, I agree it definitely had positive net for Sony in the short run, we'll have to wait and see if it will payout in the long run.

I would argue they had to give it up to get the indie scene onboard as I heard many nightmare stories for indies from PS3 era. Was it worth it? I'm sure contributed a great deal to the success of PS4 but it made the PS into just a more affordable gaming PC.

I wish that was true, there are so many games I would go back and play again. PS3 was a technical marvel for it's time, however using it was so complicated that we only got to see it's true potential by the end of it's lifecycle with games like TLOU. So just speaking of raw power, PS5 could %100 not emulate PS3 games flawlessly as we barely have PS3 emulation on PCs. Technical part aside, it just doesn't make business sense for Sony to invest in it. You also have to keep in mind if Sony offers PS3 emulation, it can't stutter or crash on some games. it needs to be a commercial grade product which is not even guaranteed with PS2 or NES emulation on PC

Yes you are correct in your assumption, but what OP is asking is if not signing into your Google account helps, which really doesn't

Even if you don't sign into an account, you still have google play services running on your phone (it's seperate from play store). So even though you're not directly feeding your information into it, they still infer a lot of information from how you use your phone e.g. the wifi you connect to, apps on your phone, location services etc. You can't tell who someone is based on one or two of these little bits of data, but put them all together and now they know exactly who you are

I'm one of those people who believe every step towards privacy, no matter how small is a good choice. However I don't think doing what you said does any good since google will still be collecting your data to build a profile on you, even worse if you already have an account they can easily link it to your existing profile

tl;dr of the statement: Dolphin project is not in any danger but it won't be released on steam.