over under, silk song releasing compared to prime 4

the funding likely was for plans they disclosed to the shareholders. its still simethinf they shouldnt pursue because its already on its own a very niche usecase.

for example, they didnt outright produce the desktop case themselves, they handed off production of that essentially to coolermaster.

the handheld gaming case is a niche (repairable laptop owners), in a niche (people who are on their second fw13 board), in a niche(is a gamer), in a niche (willing to trade off performance and size due to board size and slower ram speeds). there is very little momey in that and the project makes sense more for the community than the company itself (which some in the community has already started/finished)

IMO its a waste of time for their in house industrial designers for that. this kind of project should 100% be a community effort. a startup company does not have infinite resources.

i mean historically, this isnt new. CPUs and GPUs will always introduce some new compute unit thats highly specific workloads using up die space. take cpu examples like AVX2, AVX512 for example, or Aegia Physx hardware, or Nvidias Tensor units to allow for tech like raytracing/upscaling or all hardwares video decoder/encoders.

Companies will push the changes on their hardware regardless, and they will only remove it if it interferes with a core design of a chip (e.g Intel P/E cores disable AVX512 because E cores do not have AVX512 units) or gets i a point that barely anyone uses it.

if you never want to buy into thia kind of tech, then choose to never buy whoever is the most popular cpu/gpu in a market, because people at the top invent new things to further the gap between them and everyone else, as they are usually first and foremost, publically traded companies.

im not fully convinced its api, as there are several times a dev or themselves have proved connecting to the apple service was possible. with message, beeper proved it was possible to chat with imessage users. with icloud, backups could be accessed via an internet browser (therefore theres an already existing api that is platform agnostic as it runs in a browser.)

apple could even just make a PWA and instantly have access to the same api that browsers use to access its cloud on its own, and supporting auto cloud sync wouldn’t even have to be at an OS level.

they were making 30k/mo for a while, so for sure they can pay some of it off.

Its part of the reason why if youre interested in Nintendo specifically, youre better off working for monolith soft.

They often directly help nintendo in various projects (like Bandai now), and is primarily staffed by reletively younh people with different ideas, not tied to any traditional game design. When monolith is making a Xenoblade game, its usually a passion project that nintendo allows for because realistically speaking, the devs helping out with projects like Zelda/Animal Crossing and such makes more monetary sense. The passion project sense is also what allows each xenoblade to be fairly unique, despite all of them being jrpgs in the same series.

Single studio. They have a shit ton of other development studios doing other projects e.g a bunch of popular anime titles like Naruto, One Piece, Dragon Ball, Gundam, SAO and such, then their own major franchises (e.g Pacman, Tekken, Tales, Taiko, Ace Combat, iM@s, God Eater)

Theyre far from being considered 2nd party, thry just happen to be rented out by projects that happen to be under nintendo or someone who ia contracted to finish a project for nintendo but doesnt work there (e.g sakurai)