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You have more fun with the FPS counter off (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
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[โ€“] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Games make the overwhelming majority of the money right at the start either way, so there's that.

[โ€“] vanquesse@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

I don't think that has been the case for at least a full console generation, maybe more.

Look at the rise and fall of pre-order goodies to get a rough estimate of when publishers really, really wanted you to buy the game day 1 (and when it stopped mattering as much)