@sparent180: True but Star Wars is clearly profitable (or at least it should be, and has a lot of future potential), while The Simpsons has been just barely riding on the edge of profitability for a while now, resulting in budget cuts and lower-quality animation etc.

There are probably some Disney and Fox execs who would feel relieved to finally pull the plug on it

@sparent180: When Marcia Wallace, the voice of Edna Krabappel, died in 2013, they retired the character rather than recasting her. New SAG-AFTRA rules prevent AI being used to copy a voice actor without the actor's permission, which I doubt they would give, it would be seen as too much of a slippery slope or encroachment that threatens other voice actors' jobs

@hirsbrunner1: I think it will end when the 6 main voice actors collectively agree it's time to stop. Which could be pretty soon; one of them is 80 years old and another has a deteriorating voice, they sound super frail

Some of the hate probably stems from moments like "I f***ed Ted"

Where it doesn't seem pragmatic or like she's trying to get Walt to do the right thing, it's purely malicious or petty and vengeful

@HAWK9600: Use of upscaling methods like FSR 2 this gen has made it so some games run at fairly low internal resolutions in their 60fps performance modes. For example Alan Wake 2 is 874p, and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora uses dynamic res that can drop to 864p minimum.

But the upscaled final image looks more like 1440p or 4k and is good enough that you don't notice how low it is under the hood

@spartan8: The current-gen games that are limited to 30fps on PS5 and Series X tend to be CPU-limited, with their PC versions also being CPU-heavy.

It's true you can do the performance tradeoff you describe if you design and optimize a game a whole different way, but as a mid-gen refresh that's unlikely to happen for the PS5 Pro. It's not going to have its own exclusive games built from the ground up.

@dmblum1799: Gaming laptops are a bad idea. Why not put together a gaming desktop, so that after a few years you can upgrade the graphics card for a few hundred $, rather than replacing the whole thing?

"A recent Digital Foundry feature also analyzed some of the leaks that began appearing online, with one of the main takeaways being that the rumored console will give users higher frame rates"

No, Digital Foundry's main prediction was that PS5 Pro WON'T give higher framerates. If a game is 30fps on regular PS5, it will most likely still be 30fps on the Pro. Most of the upgrades being on the GPU side, not the CPU, means the improvements will be in resolution and image quality but not performance. It will be better at pushing more pixels than at pushing more frames.

@hellpedre: Just because 1 and 2 came first and established the universe doesn't mean most people will have a better with experience playing them than with the newer games. Sometimes gameplay doesn't age amazingly and doesn't hold up very well decades later, it's not disrespectful to acknowledge that.

There's plenty of other examples, like with Elder Scrolls there's reasons why people prefer to play Morrowind and later, which isn't disrespectful to Arena and Daggerfall. Or how it's not disrespectful to GTA 1 and 2 to prefer to play any of the 3D ones

@hardwenzen: How? On top of the visual upgrades they're adding new quest content for a 9 year old game. Feels anything but minimal