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emptyother , to gaming in Alan Wake II Has yet to Recoup Development and Marketing Expenses; Tencent Raised Stakes in Remedy to 14%
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Its music level released on YT gave it a lot of exposure. If even that wasn’t enough, what hope do we have for an Alan Wake 3 or Control 2 without a crappy tacked-on monetization scheme? Because thats always next if a singleplayer game series doesn’t make as much money as the publishers wanted it to.

chloyster ,

The headline is kinda misleading. Yes it hasn’t recouped costs yet, but they sound confident it will. It’s the best performing Remedy game ever released

Edit: misleading maybe not the right word. “Doesn’t tell the full story” is probably better

lightninhopkins , to gaming in Alan Wake II Has yet to Recoup Development and Marketing Expenses; Tencent Raised Stakes in Remedy to 14%

I enjoy the story, the combat is annoying though. When you get injured and can no longer see it’s silly. I liked the combat in the first one more.

teawrecks ,

That’s wild. The combat in the first one felt mind numbing to me. Just constant padding with the same flashlight/gun combo over and over and over.

Telorand ,

I dropped the first game specifically because of the “combat.” I’d give Alan Wake II a try if it was a different mechanic.

teawrecks ,

I haven’t finished it yet, but AW2 is a dramatic step up in the entire experience. They still “pay homage” to the original combat, but there aren’t nearly as many enemies. If you’re familiar with the Control story and like that universe, I’d say it’s a must play.

CharlesReed , to gaming in Alan Wake II Has yet to Recoup Development and Marketing Expenses; Tencent Raised Stakes in Remedy to 14%
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I'm convinced they would have done so much better if it hadn't been Epic exclusive. I know more than one person who won't play it on PC because of this.
It's a great game otherwise.

chloyster ,

It also likely wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t an epic exclusive (they funded it). I do wish they could have gotten someone else to publish it of course, but I’m thankful the game exists at all, it’s really outstanding

SRo , to gaming in Alan Wake II Has yet to Recoup Development and Marketing Expenses; Tencent Raised Stakes in Remedy to 14%

Epic

kembik , to gaming in Alan Wake II Has yet to Recoup Development and Marketing Expenses; Tencent Raised Stakes in Remedy to 14%

Too spooky for me

Megaman_EXE , to gaming in Alan Wake II Has yet to Recoup Development and Marketing Expenses; Tencent Raised Stakes in Remedy to 14%

This made me realize I haven’t played it yet. I looked up the sales prices and realized why. It hasn’t really gone on sale for a price that I would be comfortable paying. I loved the first one back in the day. I haven’t tried control yet. Might give that a go in the meantime

Hazmatastic ,

Control is fantastic if you like the Remedy vibe. Not checking it out would be doing yourself a disservice, I think.

Megaman_EXE ,

I’ve heard really good things about it. I think it’s on ganepass right now so I should probably give it a go

spacedogroy , to gaming in Alan Wake II Has yet to Recoup Development and Marketing Expenses; Tencent Raised Stakes in Remedy to 14%

It also didn’t release as a physical copy. New digital releases in the UK at least are always pretty expensive, whereas with physical copies there’s at least a chance of a small discount from a retailer.

FiskFisk33 , to android in Samsung Rumored To Bring ‘Battery AI’ To Its Galaxy S25 Series, Boosting The Total Backup By Up To 10 Percent At The Same Performance Level

meaning some unpredictable AI will now be closing background processes on me?

limerod OP ,

Yes, for that 5-10% battery improvement.

mrfriki ,

Not completely unpredictable, I assure you that no a single Samsung app will be ever closed.

ShepherdPie ,

“We’ve turned off your device-wide ad blocker because we noticed that it was running in the background.”

ArcaneGadget , to samsung in Samsung Rumored To Bring ‘Battery AI’ To Its Galaxy S25 Series, Boosting The Total Backup By Up To 10 Percent At The Same Performance Level

How do we make Android battery management sound fancy? Oh I know! Fiddle with the parameters and slap an “A.I.” -sticker on it!

This is getting ridiculous…

Grass , to android in Samsung Rumored To Bring ‘Battery AI’ To Its Galaxy S25 Series, Boosting The Total Backup By Up To 10 Percent At The Same Performance Level

What’s next? Touch AI? AI lockscreen? AI ribbon cables?

doleo ,

AI is when tech

Grass ,

But is tech also when AI?

BluesF ,

If I understand correctly something like “touch AI” is already used, at least on keyboards. It’s actually very difficult to touch what you think you’re touching on a phone screen, so your device does some degree of prediction of where you really wanted to touch.

9point6 , to android in Samsung Rumored To Bring ‘Battery AI’ To Its Galaxy S25 Series, Boosting The Total Backup By Up To 10 Percent At The Same Performance Level

Doesn’t running an AI model typically use more battery?

limerod OP ,

The model size for this task would be so small and energy consumption so miniscule it won’t matter.

faintwhenfree ,

In theory, assuming Samsung doesn’t decide to use that for other purposes.

limerod OP ,

Hmm, that’s not how it works.

programmer_belch , to android in Samsung Rumored To Bring ‘Battery AI’ To Its Galaxy S25 Series, Boosting The Total Backup By Up To 10 Percent At The Same Performance Level
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Will the battery be removable for the next model? Is the model locally run?

limerod OP ,

They have much more complex models running on-device. It would be laughable if this was not.

Flyberius , to samsung in Samsung Rumored To Bring ‘Battery AI’ To Its Galaxy S25 Series, Boosting The Total Backup By Up To 10 Percent At The Same Performance Level
@Flyberius@hexbear.net avatar

Waaaaoooooaaaaaoooooaaaaaoooooaaaah

They put the thing in the thing!

TigrisMorte , to android in Samsung Rumored To Bring ‘Battery AI’ To Its Galaxy S25 Series, Boosting The Total Backup By Up To 10 Percent At The Same Performance Level

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha, no, seriously, battery management is now AI, and it's not just a rebrand of the same power management scheme we've had for years, honest. hahahahahahahahahahaha

limerod OP ,

Yeah, adaptive battery 1st introduced in android 9.

solrize , to technology in NVIDIA Unveils Next-Gen Rubin, Rubin Ultra, Blackwell Ultra GPUs & Supercharged Vera CPUs

Named after astronomer Vera C. Rubin (1928-2016), I guess.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rubin

There is also an observatory under construction in Chile named after her.

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