Patrick Sounds Off: Concerning Developments at Square Enix
by Patrick MifflinThat video where I talk about Yosuke Matsuda without making a single NFT joke. Because the broader implications of his departure from Square Enix aren’t funny.
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Patrick Sounds Off: Nintendo’s (Long) Road to Next-Gen
I deal in realism, not hype. There’s a lot of buzz about a Nintendo Switch successor at the moment, but not a lot of reasonable expectations surrounding it. I guess that’s where I come in.
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Patrick Sounds Off: Postmortem
Now that we know $70 is a thing for the Nintendo Switch moving forward, it’s time to examine some of the real likely causes and implications.
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Patrick Sounds Off: The Lengths We Go
Back to system launch commentaries. Wasn’t planning to take part in this one, but Nintendo was insistent and knew exactly how to bring me around.
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Patrick Sounds Off: Virtua Renaissance
I love that a new Virtua Fighter looks inevitable with Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown headlining EVO Japan 2023, but upwards of a decade is a long wait for a new game in any series, and I can’t help wondering…
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Patrick Sounds Off: The Smokeless Fire of E3 2023
The news that E3 is back this year, but that the big three aren’t participating, is being spun every which way by news outlets and content creators. Either it’s treated as a declaration of E3’s irrelevance or a sign that…
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Patrick Sounds Off: Buyer Beware
Being an early adopter comes with some implicit risks. The first of anything to come off of the production line could be especially faulty, and I ran face-first into that reality on November 15, 2001…and the weeks that followed.
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Patrick Sounds Off: Sometimes Your Best Move is Not Making One
You know me, I see poorly-founded hype and I just can’t resist pouring cold water on it and telling the world to cool its jets. There’s no reason to suggest a next-gen Nintendo platform is conversation-worthy in 2023. Digital Foundry…
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Patrick Sounds Off: They Can’t All Be Winners
Ah, the GBA launch. The screen was terrible and I’m not good with kids.
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Patrick Sounds Off: Racing Genre Inventory
We need more arcade racers in the world. It just doesn’t seem that way because a lot of what gets classified as arcade racers, aren’t.
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Patrick Sounds Off: Failure To Launch
Ninth-gen platforms have a relevancy problem. They just don’t have a discernible identity from their predecessors because virtually all of their games are shared with them. Now that supply woes can’t be used as an excuse, let’s address this.
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Patrick Sounds Off: The Day That Changed Everything
The Dreamcast brought me to the very quick decision that I would never miss another system launch if I could help it. I had no idea what I was walking into the very next year.
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