This is going to be hilarious when someone leaves their system on pause for a while, and they actually get burn-in on their wall.
Why is the "WOW" in the picture coming from Hirai, and not the audience?
Sounds like typical Rhianna Pratchett. As full of herself as her work is disappointing.
Holy crap, submitter:
"A year after its debut in Japan, new sales data gives us incite on where the system has performed best and worse in 2012."
Incite? INCITE? I think you also mean "best and worst".
/tsdr
Because thinking, "He was a nutjob, there could be hundreds of other nutjobs out there that we can't do anything about" doesn't let them sleep any easier.
They need to lash out at something, something needs to take the blame, and that thing needs to be something that they don't do. Because fuck it if they're changing THEIR lives for something some wacko did.
So they target games.
darthv72: No, that absolutely is NOT how CPU class upgrades work.
Every Intel chip from the 8086 to the i7 didn't change base number/brand until there was an architecture redesign. That's why they have a different number of pins, that's why they all need new motherboards to be slotted into.
They aren't "modified". They're entirely new chip designs.
The Time article that this hit-seeking link-baiter is sharing is from November 15th.
http://techland.time.com/20...
Which of these games is not a LucasArts adventure game?
1) Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
2) Quest for Glory: So You Want To Be A Hero
3) Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
4) Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
Which was not part of Epyx's classic "Games" series:
1) California Games
2) World Games
3) Summer Games II
4) Olympic Games
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
The phrase "Justin Bailey" in the old NES Metroid referred to:
A) "Just in bailey", an inside joke that Samus would be just in her underwear.
B) The name of one of the developers.
C) Nothing, it was just random garbage.
D) The true enemy in Metroid.
http://www.metroidwiki.org/...
The "crash" is a myth, which was created by the inability of the journalists of the day being unable to distinguish "PC gaming" as gaming.
It was specifically a console crash. Commodore was selling nearly as many C-64s every year from 1983-1986 than Nintendo was selling NESes in its first two years. As someone who actually lived through that era, I can tell you very plainly that gaming never died in the US. It just moved over to PCs, and then it moved back...
Why? Because everyone knows the answer to it?
"one AND the same".
I think you're missing his argument, lilbro. It's that if you're a Madden fan, you likely already have consoles you are currently playing Madden on.
Why, then, would you jump ship to a brand new control scheme when you already have the one you're comfortable with?
However, a counterpoint would be, "Doesn't this indicate that Nintendo's going to have an exceedingly difficult time capturing any of the sports audience?"
I'm not going to read the article, but I can tell you this: We, as a people, have become increasingly shitty ever since the moment we decided that we could just handwave away valid criticism simply as "hating".
Where is this in list format? I don't want to watch a video that's going to take 10 times as long to give me the same information.
"The question is though, was the awards any good"
WERE, goddammit. WERE the awards any good? If you don't know how to write, then why the hell would I want to read your writing?
That looks all kinds of awful.
"Movember" is the dumbest portmanteau ever.
Make it "Augustache".
Hey, that's actually a pretty interesting idea. I wonder if some artsy-fartsy interior decorator's done something like that.
Just blast a light colored wall with ultra bright lights and leave an interesting shadow design burned into it.