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Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo
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this post was submitted on 21 May 2024
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Japan has plenty problematic cultural aspects, but the tendency for some big companies to use directors that frequently are obsessed enough to do stuff like ditch capitalist incentives in favour of their 'vision' is always a good'un to see.
Honestly the older I get the more sense this stuff makes and the more I appreciate this. Life is too short for loading screens.
Me and my sis played the fuck out of that game (port when?) thanks for giving us those 100 seconds back king 🙏
“If you take one second from each user, that means you’ll be taking 10,000 seconds from 10,000 people. The more this repeats over the years, the more time you will cause players to lose.”
Sakurai has joined rhetorical forces with the anti nuclear crowd 
lysenko Is not a person you should take seriously
Wrong thread
this is really funny
To be real, how many of you even actually know what Dolby Surround is or refers to? No snark, genuinely wonder. Bonus points because Sakurai is using the wrong term for it here.
Multichannel is cool in racing games, like Forza Motorsport 4 is cool in 5.1 but for Air Ride it was probably the right call cutting it to save bootup time, given how few people likely had their Gaemcoobs hooked up to a hifi.