Recent content by Sate

You don't understand why Nintendo would do that? For one, Nintendo has an eshop where they sell several similar Metroid games, such as Super Metroid. This game given away for free could be expected to take sales away from Nintendo because it competes with those games directly.

I wonder what the design goals here are: -must look a bit like a coffin -has to be loud as hell -has to cost a lot -should be a big pain when moving -needs to have a large flat surface you can never put anything on or near

I think what bothers me about a game like this being taken as some sort of evidence about psychology is that the game is set up in every way to encourage violence. Meanwhile, there are no means of interacting in ways that build stability or order, even if you want to. There are benefits to...

I haven't said anything about consoles not having an optical drive. Since they generally are only cost effective by having one design and all users have the same hardware, then it makes sense that there has to be a drive. I also started my aside with THIS IS A BIT OF A SIDE POINT. I said that...

I don't speak for "people" nor they for me. I do not care what anyone else has said. If you would like to say that for <1% of people the PC costs more, fine. But the statement "a gaming PC generally needs an optical drive" is just false. Movie watching is irrelevant to a discussion about gaming.

I get the pros/cons of each and find they both have their place (I like my PC and my Nintendo). I think the cost comparison discussion is interesting because it has changed so much over the last 2-ish decades. When the SNES was released it cost about $200 (in 1991 dollars). The cheapest PC at...

It does not matter if it is "going a bit far". This discussion is about gaming and consoles versus PCs. Non-gaming needs are simply not relevant to a comparison between console and PC gaming and especially the costs associated with PC gaming. Older games are also mostly irrelevant to the...

We're talking about a gaming machine. If you have a non-gaming need for such things, then you've already bought an optical drive and whatever else you need for that non-gaming function. I have no idea what you could mean by "doing things the way they were meant to be done".

This is a side note really, but there is very little reason to own an optical drive. I have one in my PC, which is 1.5 years old. I have never used it. Not once. My Asus Zenbook has no optical drive. It's never mattered.

But the gaming experience is similar. I agree the PS4 is ahead, but that's only true at the lowest of price ranges. Adding as little as $50 or $60 can put the PC ahead.

That's a good system for the money. The APU is especially impressive for the price/performance. It won't out-do a PS4 though. It's in the same performance area.. you can run lower settings/higher fps or vice versa. The devs will also probably squeeze some more power out of the PS4 over time. But...

At the moment I think the consoles are price-competitive (taking into account not just resolution, but graphical complexity, post-processing and all that). But it'll be really sad a year from now (ostensibly, just 1/6th or so into the console platform's life) when bargain basement PC's will...

The portability aspect I think is meant to refer to the possibility that you have multiple docks in different places. It says so at their indiegogo page. E.g. at work, maybe couple in the home, one on the tv for gaming and another for your desk to be your PC. It's not a bad idea, and we'll...

How is this better than standard radio communication? It seems awful, by comparison.

I don't find the graphics impressive or all that different from GTA IV. They make nice shaders for the consoles, those get better. But the poly count and this the level of geometric detail is the same. Imagine how it might look not chained to hardware from ~5 generations of GPU/CPUs ago.