simpleMasahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo
DefiantBidetUser experience over marketing.
Honestly, 5.1 surround sound is worth waiting the extra like 2 seconds of the logo. The fact that the game only has mono or stereo sound output just because he didn’t want to have a logo on the screen for a few seconds is not putting user experience over marketing.
It would honestly make more sense that Nintendo told him he couldn’t add it because they didn’t want to pay for it and this is how he justified it to himself.
Most households have a TV with TV speakers, only capable of L/R. Why pay money and have people sit through a corporate short film for a feature most won’t use?
Its two seconds for the benefit of 5.1, so the people.that have it can benefit.
The problem people have with your argument is not the existence of 5.1 surround sound.
Nor is it that the vast majority of households can’t afford a properly tuned surround sound setup instead of haphazardly throwing speakers around which arguably creates a worse experience than stereo.
It’s that the Dolby implementation requires publishers to license it and pay for an unstoppable ad that plays before every session, while benefitting only the petit bourgeois.
Notice how you reverted so quickly to your capitalist brainwashing. May be a good inspiration to see what other ideologies have been implanted into you.
It is two seconds.
Not only is it just 2 seconds, but it’s 2 seconds while the game is no doubt being loaded into memory while it plays anyway.
This is like whining about the Pixar animation that plays before all of their movies (for much longer than 2 seconds).
I would understand the complaint if it was longer, like 5 or 7 seconds long for just the Dolby logo. But its not.
Like, if seeing a logo for two seconds bothers you that much, better close your eyes when driving riding the bus walking around town, otherwise you might see a dreaded billboard or advertisement.
PsychadelligoatGonna just completely ignore that said 2s is otherwise unneeded so you can feel like you still have a point, hm?
Seeing an ad while walking does not require me to stop what I’m doing and wait for the ad. Putting an unstoppable ad in your pre-game logo does
Loading screens in the game take longer than two seconds and dont have the benefit of running one time before the game starts and adding surround sound support. So you would rather be greeted with a black screen as the game with less features loads instead?
Great idea.
People in this thread don’t want to waste 2 seconds per use of a video game on a logo screen, but will happily waste the day discussing it.
grrgyleAbsolutely
The irony of not wanting to “waste time” when you’re about to play a video game, too.
That’s me time, not dolby time
Discussing it provides entertainment value of some degree
Seeing a logo for 2 seconds does not
You guys cant actually be that fucking stupid, right?
I would rather have conversation with bots on Reddit than have this conversation with a moron like you.
Yet you keep replying, how funny
Hey, let’s not resort to name calling.
I didn’t, I insulted their intelligence by insinuating that I didn’t believe they were as intelligent as they are
Oh, so if I ask if you’re a fucking moron that’s ok?
Don’t really care, honestly.
Still not name calling.
It is actually unreal to be downvoted for saying this. What a place to be.
sudoYeah. It’s called principles. Maybe when your corporate overlords have some for sale you’ll be and to afford them.
My state banned billboards for the same reasons.
It’s a really good reminder when I’m ever in another state that things like that just… Aren’t needed.
The advertising thing is a slippery slope, and it’s OK for people to draw the line for how far down the slope they’re willing to go higher up than you would. It’s also OK that your line comfortably holds a 2-second ad.
No position here is unreasonable, and everyone should keep that in mind.
missingnoGamecube doesn't have enough RAM to preload everything at startup like that, you have to go through the menus and pick a game mode and map to load.
Surely if it needed that startup load anyway, then Sakurai wouldn't be saying he turned the license down in order to get players in the game faster. I'm going to trust Sakurai's word here!
Sure, and the Spectrum ZX I used to use 35 years ago had even less. The GameCube is ancient history, it’s not the benchmark for a reasonable amount of memory for anyone.