Recent content by CrystalShadow

Yeah, they would look at that no doubt. Absolutes are what matter for sales, which is true. The Wii and Wii U are a huge mess in terms of that kind of stuff. XD The Switch is an unknown at this point but apparently a month in it's hit 5 million units. But as I learnt with another subject...

Anecdotes are not proof. Either way. I've owned a switch for a month and had none of the issues that ANYONE has described. Does that mean these other people are lying? Does one account of a failure mean it's a rampant, widespread design problem? Keep in mind something about...

Really? Because my (admittedly totally anecdotal) experience shows that if anyone is going to do both PC AND Console gaming, a Nintendo system is more likely than anything else. The reason for which should be obvious when you consider that the other consoles are far more comparable to weak...

"know and love"? I find the playstation line of controllers to be one of the most obnoxious in existence. But what do I know, since apparently my taste in controllers diametrically opposes pretty much everyone else's...

I have no hard rules on this. I seem to be a little less mature than people my own age, so I do have trouble relating to some of them. But then again, I would feel pretty uncomfortable with someone that was a massively different age to me. I believe at the moment I am 5 years older. Of...

That would already be the case if the legal people were being consistent, and not just doing stuff on a whim. Around about 1994 or 1995, intel lost an attempt to claim trademark on '586' (thus, the pentium processor). But on top of that, as a general rule, trademarks are not universal...

Well, to be fair, the wii U gamepad IS a regular gamepad (with a touchscreen and motion sensor bolted on). Ignore the screen and it's basically the same controller as consoles have been using for the last 20 years. Trouble is not that it can't replace a regular gamepad. (it can. because it...

The controls [i]are[/s] something you can get used to, and if you master it it has some small upside. But seriously, for the most part it's absolutely pointless and painful to use. game taking 2-3 hours is consistent with the history of the series though. But, if it's following that history...

Let's not go there OK? XD 'cause, I mean, your prior response wasn't much better than what you're now accusing me of in terms of how it relates to what I said. So... No. There isn't that much else to say, especially to that kind of remark.

That's debatable. I mean, yes, in the short term that's absolutely true. But games didn't get where they are with nobody trying to push technological limits. Someone occasionally has to push the boundaries or the whole thing stagnates. - that may seem silly now that your average game is...

Yeah, pretty big gap huh. XD I mean, $500... Even if your electricity is $0.40 per kwh, which would be atrocious, the power difference surely can't be much more than 200 watts at the upper limit. So... That's what, running your GPU at maxed out capacity for 6250 hours? Well, give or take...

Meh. Depends on what you want from it. The upside is old computers can keep up with stuff for a long time. The downside is it kinda means people aren't trying to push any boundaries with anything. Which implies a degree of technological stagnation. Sure, technology isn't everything, but...

I don't know whether I should laugh, or cry. On the one hand, new hardware for a system I didn't care about in the first place. On the other hand, introducing some of the same problems that make PC development complicated... Meanwhile, it also seems like a subtle hint that the 'new...

Impressive, as always. Though these huge builds always look like they'd take forever to build and would be very expensive to boot. I've built enough 2000-3000 part sets to know that even with instructions meaning you don't have to spend any time thinking out the design, it takes like 40-50...