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Re:Why are new devices dependent on the Internet but made wi... by jjk166 on Monday December 14, 2020 @02:29PM (#25422028)
Survivor bias: the games people fondly remember and want to go back and play decades later are generally the ones with few if any problems. The buggy crap got purchased by an unlucky few and then was quickly abandoned and forgotten.

It's also why classic music, books, movies, etc are great - decades of pruning leaving a short list of best-ofs.

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Re:Why are new devices dependent on the Internet but made wi... by nalekberov on Monday December 14, 2020 @03:40PM (#25422965)
I was talking about the ones for Nintendo Switch. And they are pretty much complex games.

Back in 90's in order to survive game producers had to have sense of quality and knowledge of definition of "finished".

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