Mass Deduction (née scrapking)'s discussions

Say what you will about the new Dashboard, it has one thing strongly going for it over all previous versions: you can have hundreds upon hundreds (I have over 500 myself) of downloaded games, yet the directories come up almost instantaneously. Previous iterations of the Dashboard would be crippled to the point of… Read more

Then I take it you never had an Atari Lynx. This is a picture of the second, *smaller*, Atari Lynx.

A huge pop in the share price is bad for the company, as lots of money was left on the table as you say. However, those institutional investors who are going to purchase large chunks of the stock understandably want to see something in return for their troubles. Isn't a perfect IPO where the price rises only a very… Read more

Got a link or two? I'm not sure who you're referencing. Read more

You're right that two-letter abbreviations are more likely to get confused. "HD DVD" solved all our problems in that regard! :P Read more

You're not the only one, I try to do that too. Read more

We deserve to punished for that, if you ask me. Read more

Are you kidding? We're living the dream in Canada. We have some of the lowest unemployment in the free world, none of our banks failed during the credit crisis, and our tax rates are now way lower than Europe and the U.S. Read more

There were no "Iphone 1 and 2". Read more

It won't, not at 3G speeds at least. Wind uses the so called "AWS" band, and the 3G version being released at launch is the so-called "normal" North American bands of 850 and 1900mhz. Read more

Took me a bit to figure out what the heck a "BRD" was. I finally sussed out you must have meant a "BD". :) Read more

"debuting at number four and selling 75,865 copies. That's the PS3 version. The Xbox 360 version sold another 37,037 copies." Read more

My last Elder Scrolls game was Oblivion. I had Morrowind before that. I found it difficult to find the time it needed to really get the most of it. I have a business to run, and when I'm home I have chores and errands to do. Unfortunately, I only have time for pick-up-and-play experiences. Read more

Look for a torrent of the leaked customer information, you can use that to get reacquainted with your login info. *sad sigh* Read more

Embarassing that they didn't, IMO, given that Microsoft started rolling them out, oh, 3-4 years before the Wii even came out. I know the Wii doesn't have a hard drive, but it does have internal memory and SD card expansion options. Even if all they did was release small, mission critical patches like this one would… Read more

I'm sure exclusives made a difference, I just think they made less of a difference than you suggest. I think you're right that the PS2's success was crucial: if the PS3 had been Sony's first entrant into the console business, I hesitate to think how badly it would have tanked. The PS2 did install some brand loyalty… Read more

ARM Architecture offers impressive performance relative to cost, space, and power consumption, but the Power cores on the 360 destroy it in overall performance. No way that even a quad core ARM (sized to fit into a smartphone) will touch a triple-core PowerPC unit. Read more

I don't expect any system other than the Wii U to launch in 2012. I've been following the issue closely and haven't seen an official statement from either Microsoft or Sony on the issue, just rumours an speculation such as the Techradar link you provided. It could happen, but it's from officially stated by… Read more

It used to be that we had consoles releasing almost every year. Those days are gone, and the odds of new consoles being released in 2019 is low IMO. Check out this release calendar: Read more

Hardware generations keep getting longer though, and a 2012 release is looking unlikely for the PS4. A more apt comparison is the 360 which released in 2005, and probably won't have a successor until 2013 (8 years). I expect at least that kind of life for the next round of consoles, with companies adding value… Read more