It's a good thing they're not investigating protesting, but, and I quote:

"which authorities were investigating for their connection to arson, vandalism and doxing."

"Your honor, I did try to burn down the building with people in it, but it was just protesting" goes even worse in court than "your honor, I did invade Capitol building without permission to enter".

Straight from the OP:

>"which authorities were investigating for their connection to arson, vandalism and doxing"

Courts grant wide ranging search warrants for much less than that. Especially when you're looking for organizers trying to do those things at scale. This is true for basically all nations within Western jurisprudence (with exception of France, where investigative Magistrate himself may show up at your door, and he and his people won't be nice about it).

Judicial system's job is to regulate these things. Here you have clear cut criminal activity, almost certainly a search warrant issued by the court, followed by a legal request to a foreign entity with similar laws, where their legal system evaluates the request, concludes that yes criminality of this sort has applicable laws in Switzerland and request is otherwise valid and request relevant information from a company running under their legal system.

Where's the problem?

Again, my point wasn't that some exceptional indies aren't outselling some shitty AAA games. But only a tiny handful of indies are Silksong, and only a tiny handful of AAA games are Concord.

Nvidia itself disagrees:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/d...

"NVIDIA Blackwell-architecture GPUs pack 208 billion transistors and are manufactured using a custom-built TSMC 4NP process".

Notably previous generation Hopper is also TSMC 4NM

You're probably thinking about who makes the RAM for these things, and one of the RAM partners is indeed Samsung. Other is SK Hynix.

You could also be thinking about older generation 30 series GPUs. Those were made on Samsung 8nm, and if memory serves me right, problems with that tech process were a part of why 30 series availability was abysmal even before ETH mining boom sucked all of them out of the market.

None of these are even close to Silksong's launch day. Frankly, none of them are even in the same ballpark. They're fun games, and they sold well, but volume of their success vs silksong demonstrates just how much of an outlier silksong was.

The energy of "oh fuck, I thought I'd aura farm off this subject, but no one cares and I gave massive amount of business to my competitor and put all our partners on notice as being unreliable if they cross the arbitrary rule set of SanFran's Effective Altruism sex cult's ethics code" is strong with this one.

Bonus points for trying to usurp your sovereign's sovereign rights.

Yes, you done fucked up son. Everyone will aura farm off you now.

More realistically, they just need a lot of money right now to invest into new production lines. TSMC keeps raising prices and requires quite a bit of investment up front at this point for example.

They also need to expand design efforts, as there are a lot of AI accelerator chips coming within a couple of years. They need to invest a lot to continue staying ahead. Remember that Nvidia is a hardware design company. Everyone has been trying to poach their engineering staff, and competition for relevant staff is cut throat now that market exploded in size.

Gamers buying games cannot vote with their wallets on this subject, because return window on steam is 2 hours played.

Many other platforms are even worse in this regard.

Good as in players don't feel disappointed in the game after playing it for a few hours.

A very common problem for sequels.

Helldivers didn't start falling off until developers started patching out fun for the monetization reasons a few months into it.

Silksong is a massive exception to pretty much all rules. This is demonstrated by it breaking Steam for a few hours when it came out.

Steam hasn't been broken like this in well over a decade to the best of my knowledge. They're really good at load balancing.

Remove the one outlier from your numbers and parse the numbers again. Indies are doing great right now, but they're not eclipsing big names by any stretch of imagination. Right now, the best selling single player game on steam is Resident Evil Requem, followed by Crimson Desert, follwoed by Space Marine 2. So

If anything, the main thing in last few years has been rapid rise of PRC and ROK in gaming. They seem to be doing everything from triple A like Wukong and Stellar Blade to free to play single player games like all their gacha offerings.

Problem with "we sell on PC a long time after game is sold on consoles" means unless the game being sold like this is good, you don't get many additional sales.

Because if the game is average or bad, people have many other games to play. If the game is exceptional however, it will generate a lot more sales because people will believe it being worth their time and money.

Ghost of X series is likely a good example here. Ghost of Tsushima was an amazing game. Ghost of Yotei rode on its coattails and sold ok on PS5 while being an average game at best. Those sorts of games have done very, very badly on PC lately.

So it makes sense to still release good games on PC long time after PS5 release if those games are known to be good games. Alternatively, you can do simultaneous release on multiple platforms so sales come before reputation precedes the game release.

And it makes much less sense to sell games that mainly sold on the inertia of the previous game in the series, that are either average or bad. Because players will already know if the game is worth it or not and therefore far less will buy it.

In this regard, AI chatbot integration is the solution for this. Most of the features, you should be able to just ask the chatbot "how do I do this" and get an answer in your language of choice. Best case would be chatbot literally doing the thing you asked and asking you "is this acceptable, or do you want something changed?"

Correction: I am referring to LibreOffice. Been using OpenOffice for so long, I sometimes forget that it got basically killed off by a sale and main team forked it into LibreOffice.

In my experience, OpenOffice has had way less issues with any of those Microsoft formats than for example google docs/sheets/etc.

And it can save in them as well, including by default. In fact, if you want proper cross-standard compatibility, OpenOffice is the best suite out there right now.

You can even set it to save as microsoft standards by default if you want to.