Carlos Macias

Professional Interpreter.
@WeGotComms EIC, Founder.

[Carlos Macias @aduceclean]

🧟 How good is @RE_Games Resident Evil 9 Requiem docked vs undocked?

@Jay0ntheRocks answers that for us on this edition of Salient Points.

🏆 That and stay for 2025’s @WeGotComms Game(s) of the Year honors!

How did your favorite games fare?🥇🥈

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#RE9 #re9requiem

[We Got Comms! @WeGotComms]

Resident Evil 9 Requiem Chugs on Switch 2, 2025 Game(s) of the Year (Podcast)
https://t.co/Q28eiI1vbx

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

Regular screening for cancer saves many lives.

[Jorge Diaz @CyanideCoke]

¿Entonces XBOX quiere que considere la oferta de valor de su consola elevando su precio, mientras continua cerrando estudios y corriendo desarrolladores que hacen juegos para esa misma consola?

Lo lógico sería que si sube el precio, sube la oferta de valor. ¿No?

[Michael @LegacyKillaHD]

"Wow, this Xbox news is terrible. It really can't get worse!"

Xbox:

[Christopher Dring @Chris_Dring]

Xbox's GTA 6 marketing should be: The most affordable place to play GTA 6

[Christopher Dring @Chris_Dring]

In terms of layoffs. One thing I keep hearing is: ‘The company is making so much money, why are they laying people off?’

Yes, cuts and redundancies are sometimes about saving money, or improving margin. But sometimes it’s because there’s a team, or a studio, or a division, that simply isn’t needed anymore. Maybe the company strategy has changed. A business isn’t going to keep spending money on something they don’t want or need.

And sometimes it’s about resource allocation. For example, say there’s a division that’s doing really well and growing. And there’s another division that’s not doing so well. A company might choose to cut the division that isn’t performing, and reinvest the money into the division that is. Indeed, it’s quite common to see a big company that’s made redundancies end the year with more staff than when they started… and that’s because they cut back on one thing to bolster another.

Layoffs are awful and heartbreaking and often the results of all sorts of failures. But they’re not always about saving money on the bottom line.

[Jorge Diaz @CyanideCoke]

Hola Death Stranding.

[Rhys Elliott @superhys]

Last week, I described Yotei as a success for PlayStation first-party, on the back of nearly $350M in revenue on a single platform (@alineaanalytics estimates)

I got some pushback on that from grifting bad actors, on the grounds that you play as a woman (the HORROR!!!!!!) voiced and performed by a queer Asian person. Apparently, I have an agenda lmao.

As for the Alinea estimates, yes - Yotei is selling fewer copies than Tsushima on a launch-aligned basis. But that headline misses the context that rage-baiting grifters just don't want to hear.

Let's unpack that.

Tsushima launched at the absolute height of the pandemic, when players had far more time and looser wallets than today’s cohort. They were also buying consoles in droves, including Tsushima-included standard retail bundles.

The PS5 install base is roughly 93M right now, against the 116M PS4s in the wild at the same stage of Tsushima‘s run, so Yotei is selling into a meaningfully smaller pool.

Yotei launched at $70 and has had exactly one discount in seven months: a two-week drop to $50 from late May into early June.

Tsushima launched at $60 and was cut to $40 within months, a price it returned to regularly.

So yeah, while Yotei is selling fewer copies than Tsushima, it’s making more revenue, because it’s holding a price where Tsushima discounted hard and early.

No agenda – just data. :)

[Stephen A Smith @stephenasmith]

Amen! To all the Father’s out there - not Dead Beats, but actual loving Father’s out there — amen! That’s who this brilliant brother is talking about. Happy Father’s Day

https://t.co/70KifLmROP

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In America, a warehouse store. A fully roasted chicken costs five dollars, the raw chicken beside it costs seven, and I stood between them like a man between two truths.

Golden. Hot. Seasoned. Spinning in glory under the lights, in a line of its brothers. Four dollars and ninety-nine cents.

I checked the raw birds. Seven dollars. Pale. Cold. You must do everything yourself.

This is not commerce. Commerce does not move backward. Somewhere in this building, mathematics lies defeated.

I asked the man at the counter. "How is the cooked bird cheaper than the raw bird?"

"Been five bucks forever. They keep it that way."

"But the store loses."

"Yep. On purpose."

On purpose. I held my receipt with both hands.

In my land, a lord who lowered the price of rice in a hard winter was remembered for generations. They built him a small shrine. This store does it every day, with chicken, and tells no one.

A woman behind me grew tired of my reverence. "It's just a chicken, sir."

It is not just a chicken. It is a wound the merchant takes on purpose, so that anyone, on any day, with five dollars, eats like a lord. The bird is the message. The price is the vow.

I will confess: I bought two. I did not need two. The second was not hunger. It was gratitude, and it was delicious.

Some prices are not prices. They are promises.

I return every week now. I take one bird. I bow toward the deli, briefly, so as not to alarm the staff. They have begun nodding back.

The vow holds. The bird turns. Five dollars.

Long may it spin.

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

Fox Sports is set to earn at least a quarter-billion dollars from commercials shown during the new 'hydration breaks' at the World Cup. ⚽️

https://t.co/1JpJ0x5SSp

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Why did they impale a bald eagle?

[Colin Moriarty @longislandviper]

My favorite part of yesterday's Sacred Streaming was my five minute rant on the World Cup and how insane soccer's timekeeping system is.

It's nonsensical and absurd to such an extreme degree that it feels like a conspiracy against me, specifically, that so few people agree.

[Michael @LegacyKillaHD]

The old EA graveyard of killed video game studios transferred on over in these modern times to Xbox & PlayStation.

Both gobbled up a number of studios.
Both extensive amounts of failure.

This industry never learns!

[Game Informer @gameinformer]

In an interesting twist, the PS5 Pro could very well be the best place to play Halo: Campaign Evolved https://t.co/rjoYIVKlfd

[Colin Moriarty @longislandviper]

To common responses:

1.) No, Sony shouldn’t buy any of the affected devs. No more expansion! Inorganic team acquisitions DON’T WORK. Get it yet?

2.) GamePass has ~ ⅓ (!) of the subscribers Microsoft itself forecast it’d have by now (image). Their approach demonstrably failed.

[N64 Magazine Quotes @N64Magazine]

I just wanted to write and express my continued amazement about playing GoldenEye 007. My mind can't imagine video games getting better than this, and it frightens me knowing that they inevitably will.

[Guy Welch @guywelch2000]

I was the product marketing manager for @GearsofWar 2. We did zero focus testing on the ads. The team was locked in together. Total trust in each other and in what we were making. Taste and confidence.

[Danny Bernstein 🍇🥬 @bernsteind]

autonomous robot driving through the field at night. no chemicals. no pesticides. just UV light killing pathogens and pests while everyone sleeps. this is @tricrobotics.

this is what chemical-free pest control looks like at scale.