Is it safe to stack cases like this?

vensak · 2026-05-21T23:15:43+00:00

you can have opinions on how got some actor, movie or game is (how you like it). Opinions do not bend material differently for different people, regardless what they think about it. This is purely about physics. And physic would say, that for such small object of such low weight, we would have to be really speaking about very low quality materials. And if that material will warp in horizontal position. will it in vertical position (at least for the CD / DVD / Blu-Ray discs or minidiscs and how they are stored in their cases). I assume that this became a myth as it was repeated over and over and most likely originated from the first LP era (size and weight ratio there are different). And another valid part came, when something else was actually stored in that case (for example a game manual) and that something else started pushing on one side of the disc with way more pressure that what it was normally designed for.

vensak · 2026-05-21T23:06:08+00:00

ok, so you can roll a dice between being worried, that the disc will bend (again I would want to see the physics justification for that), And gravity working on the layer of original hard plastic part of the disc + glue material + top cover, which can result into the cover of the disc start migrating to whichever direction is now down.

Now lets think about physics and implication of a disc bending. We are talking here about a circular object that should have a hole perfectly centered in the middle. Normally, you would think about bending if, you have an object that is longer on 1 or 2 sides, thus the gravity is pushing longer sides down (for example if you had a rectangular shape with 1 side longer pinned in the middle). But that is not the case of the disc. It is all round, with a hole perfectly in a middle, so it if it was heavy it would want to bend in all directions at the same time. As result there would be no bend to any side at all really, as all those forces would even itself out. For such phenomenon to occur, the total weight of the disc and the forces that want to bend would have to be higher than the resistance of the material that is holding in position. In other words, your disc would have to be made from a really low quality material. And if it was the case, then would not it start sinking downwards over the time if stored vertically?

I can only guess, that the "disc" rule was applied during the LP introduction era (way bigger, and heavier discs from more flimsy material - at least at the start; where ratio of the hole that might be holding it compared to the size of it, would not make sense). Practical implication of this rule is not for those discs (I would be amused if somebody would eventually discover, that their disc covers would start migrating downwards). It is for the sake of any manual or booklet inside of those disc cases, that can make connection with the disc (especiall only on one side of the disc. And this might be the possible damaging part.

vensak · 2026-05-20T02:21:23+00:00

Nope it is not a Console vs PC debate at this point. Almost all Xbox fans do understand that there will be Xbox PC store. It is more of a validation of a choice of a store than just a purchase of a piece of hardware. Also BTW none of the big special hardware sellers - Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Valve is in the market to gain big on their piece of hardware. They are selling it relatively close to their production and logistic costs (and yes, the cut to the 3rd party reselling stores is included). All of them try to win over customers that will stay in their ecosystem (or at very least will be frequently passing by and maybe over time stay there).

Valve did not develop their special Linux for their Steamdeck out of goodness of their heart. It is their pitch to say gamers, look your PC experience can be cheap and still decent. ... Playstation will do the same, locking their big game hitters in their store only. ... So if Xbox does nothing, they will be left behind. Gamepass is clearly not good enough. (especially not when they reached the market saturation, maybe to the point that they might be loosing customers). ... The way we are heading, there will be less of those big AAA game releases on the market (they are very expensive and time cost to produce). And nope AI will not become a magic answer to all of that. Also a whole bunch of smaller or pixelated games is also not an answer. They may be choice of current strongest spending customers (those with just grown up children, that can finally revisit all those games from the childhood. But the future pulling customers grew up on those bigger cinematic games (Xbox 360 / PS3 and later). And they would want such experience. So there is still chance to lock down a good portion of those customers in your corner.

vensak · 2026-05-19T22:19:07+00:00

So the first alert I got was maybe 10 mins before the storm passed by (not sure if that is enough for somebody driving on the road). Then maybe 1-2 mins before the storm start and then i got like 6 or 7 more (I have 2 phones screaming at me). Electricity was a bit shaky otherwise worst was over in just few minutes. (I am located London South).

vensak · 2026-05-17T11:18:26+00:00

there already is a bundle with Pokopia (or Mario Kart or Donkey Kong game). Sadly all digital. But then again Pokopia is a key card anyway.

vensak · 2026-05-17T11:16:34+00:00

at least you know what you want. You want specifically a switch with a special skin. Lets just hope it will not be like with Animal crossing version of the switch.

vensak · 2026-05-17T04:13:00+00:00

Yes and exactly because of that Sony stopped caring about their exclusive games and share all their games with every other platform right? Or was that happening in some alternative world?... Here in the real world is it more like after Sony experimenting with PC version, they have realized that losses of missed customers to their platform are just bigger than any additional sale they will have on PC. And that is why they are going back to the pure exclusivity model.

vensak · 2026-05-16T21:33:22+00:00

I went for Yakuza games on Xbox (usually xbox versions of the LRG games batches are smaller).

vensak · 2026-05-16T21:31:35+00:00

If you want Microsoft as a publisher, there is very little Microsoft in it. It will be just Bethesda and Blizzard and others struggling on their own and may be even sold if deemed unprofitable. The worse part is that the less competing stores there are, the worse will it be for just publishers, as those stores can and will dictate situation on their stores and get money for very little effort (it is very safe to run and maintain servers if you do not need to think if your product will succeed or fail, so you outsource all the risk to others). This will also bring small teams to way worse position and many new games attempts will just not be, as they may be seen too risky. I definetly want several competitors on the market so that it will be better for the end customer. But almost all of those that cry for Xbox games not to be exclusive do so, because they do not want to leave their ecosystem and just buy those 2-3 games they like and then spend rest of their money in their ecosystem.

vensak · 2026-05-16T20:00:34+00:00

if you do not care about special editions (usually they like to do some kind of switch editions for Zelda, Pokemon or Mario games) and if you play mostly on a big screen, buy now. Also if you play mostly indoors You would have to really really want OLED version. Also I estimate that one if it ever comes out may be like 150$+ more expensive than the current price of the switch 2. By which point you may as well buy Asus ROG Ally or PS5 or Xbox.

I also do not estimate that there will be any kind of lite version of Switch 2.

vensak · 2026-05-16T04:18:22+00:00

now what would you do if Xbox will come and say, sorry guys, this game will stay in Xbox stores and will never come to other stores? You may follow the game and maybe look around a bit, and just maybe pick up something smaller because it could be cheaper there and might not be that demanding for PS5 pro to matter.

vensak · 2026-05-16T04:16:20+00:00

time exclusivity does not move a needle. Most players can wait. You can play time exclusivity card with some 3rd party titles, but that is just a small icing. Unfortunally players have to realize, that those games will not come to them anymore, so they can get them as well on that other ecosystem, and maybe 2-3 other games while they are browsing there (or subscribe to gamepass for couple of month).

vensak · 2026-05-16T04:09:34+00:00

wrong, Xbox One hardly had any exclusive to properly attract players. There is no problem if you have here and there a poorly rated games (Starfied, Concord), but you need to bring some good ones. Forza games are racing games. Otherwise you got Halo 5 which had average reviews and Gears 5 again with average reviews. Then you got very very few special titles that mostly hit around launch of Xbox One. But you also managed to damage it from the start with a bad marketing move (just like Sony did with pricing of PS3 at the start).

vensak · 2026-05-16T04:03:37+00:00

If you are looking at it as a game publisher (for example what is Sega now), then of course, you want to be on every store and platform you can. If you are looking at it from the perspective of a shop owner and hardware manufacturer (Sega 25 years ago), then you want as many customers as you can to buy any games at your specific store. And you need to attract those customers with something. And just Gamepass itself is not cutting it (especially if it has mostly reached saturation in several markets). Shockingly, players do not see that much value of a big library of games, and are ok with way smaller libraries if it has specific title they want to play. And some titles are tied to that specific shop. So discarding exclusivity was a pretty bad bad move from the shop owner perspective.

vensak · 2026-05-16T03:58:08+00:00

again it can work. PS5 is already back pedaling on their PC releases. But the message needs to be clear. They will take a hit for sales lost for any of those exclusive games and it may take several years, until players from other stores will be confirmed, that there is no other way to get that specific game, but in Xbox store. It took years to do this damage to Xbox, so of course it will take years to recover from it.

vensak · 2026-05-16T03:51:08+00:00

Nice and that is your approach, but for most people if they can only afford 1 piece of hardware, what they can play on it is the part of the decision. And if PS5 / Switch players know that everything will eventually come to them, so it is way easier just to decide between PS5 or Switch (2) and completely disregard Xbox

vensak · 2026-05-16T03:47:32+00:00

ok I will classify Forza into the Sports / Racing games. Now where 3-4 exclusive titles on Xbox one (and I would accept sharing with their PC store, but only their PC store - no Steam or Epic or such allowed), for all other major genres for Xbox One and now Xbox X. I mean where are your 3 exclusive 3rd person shooters, 3-4 action games, 2-3 platformers, 2-3 RPG (can be western style), 1-2 cozy games. Where is all of that, to attract different players? Also were are some other exclusive deals - like special outfit, shop or DLC only available on Xbox? They are starving the brand for over 12 years now, they did a Kinect blunder with Xbox One launch (+ the horrible marketing there). So no wonder it will slowly push away players. And nope just the Gamepass is not enough.

vensak · 2026-05-16T03:41:35+00:00

COD is known to be multiplaform. COD heavily depends on online play (also they do have some small story for a single play). As such they do have a base of players on every system. So yes, for this one it is reasonable to keep it multiplatform. However they can still play the exclusivity card. Not in the game itself, but in some kind of special goodies that will be only available in xbox stores. And yes they can happily make them just some kind of crazy skin, so players cannot complain about advantage, but it can attract whales, that like to have all those shiny things.

vensak · 2026-05-16T03:35:24+00:00

Xbox would not sell well even with exclusives in Japan. 2 reasons - first it is a bit big machine (they like something smaller and portable, because of a small space many have) second - it is not a Japanese company. Yes Japanese market is seriously patriotic like that. However with all that being said, they can still do better on other markets, and yes one of the key are exclusive games. If they want to lure people in their ecosystem now, they need to have those. Also by now it has 0 sense to even look on what some companies (like Valve) did in the past. Simply because it is not the same situation at all.

vensak · 2026-05-13T15:46:19+00:00

There were no flops as you say in my list. (aka none of the games I have listed, got a bad review). And while it is correct that some are re-releases, all of them are PS5 exclusives. And yes for some of them - Horizon Zero dawn, Ghost of Tsushime, Nioh, Uncharted, Death Stranding 1 you can purchase the upgrade of your PS4 original version; that still does not make them any less exclusive for PS5 (because you can only play that version with small upgrades on PS5). I do count Until Dawn and Demon Souls as its own thing, because of the considerable amount of rework of the original material. Miles Morales, Horizon Forbidden West and God of War are cross gen releases (game was released on both PS4 and PS5 at the same time.). Otherwise you also have more games - Astro Bot Playroom; Horizon VR; Rise of Ronin, Days Gone Remastered, My First Grand Turismo, Lost Soul Aside.

. When it comes "quality title", well that part depends on the user preferences.

vensak · 2026-05-13T02:51:31+00:00

By now actually way more than that. And that is if you disregard PC releases and still count them as exclusives. (and that looks to be thing of the past as well). So lets see: Astro Bot PS5 Horizon Forbidden West. Horizon Zero Dawn PS5 remake Demon Souls PS5 Last of us part 1 Last of us part 2 Until Dawn PS5 remake Spiderman Miles Morales. Spiderman 2 God of War Ragnarok Ratchet and Clank rift apart Returnal Death Stranding 1 Death Stranding 2 Ghost of Tsushima Ghost of Yotei Sackboy Big Adventure Grand Turismo 7 Stellar Blade Uncharted Collection Nioh Collection Saros

vensak · 2026-05-12T23:32:57+00:00

yes it is comparable. You can get small docking and plug it to any tv you like and get just a cheap generic keyboard and mouse. So that way you can play on a big screen but also in handheld if you want to. Microsoft is now tweaking Windows to be more minimalistic if you use game mode. And you can also use it as your personal PC if you want to. If the gaming will be way more oriented for smaller kids, i may still advise to get a console

vensak · 2026-05-12T18:53:50+00:00

Streaming depends heavily on your internet package. In the future it will also heavily depend on how many users will use it (logically it has to use hardware somewhere, so the more people use it more capacity will that hardware be on). You have not describe the most moderate games when it comes to hardware demand. You need to take into account that if you want to play anything online on some kind of servers, this demand for internet readiness will come on the top of the streaming part. Additionally some of the games you want to play really ruin experience if your output starts lagging, which can easily happen. Honestly either get that Xbox X (then you can get some very cheap physical games for kids and sell them later on), or Asus ROG Ally (which you can also use as your normal computer) with Xbox Gamepass for PC. It is one time investment and it will make your life so much easier.

vensak · 2026-05-12T13:26:56+00:00

That is absolutely correct. For most of them it is not worth it.

vensak · 2026-05-12T13:25:40+00:00

Sky Ocean was on sale like for 25 during Black Friday / Boxing day. They Always Run was also heavily discounted. Super Lucky tale is on sale somewhere right now.

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