Mass Deduction (née scrapking)'s discussions

How many games do you have on your 360? I have hundreds and hundreds. If you have fewer, maybe there's a problem with your hard drive, or something? Read more

I have a star on Kotaku, but I never had one here. I wish I did. Read more

There were gaming applications for webcams prior to Sony doing it. Read more

Well, that does play a role too. But year-over-year console unit sales are down significantly in Japan. They're not down significantly in most (any?) other markets. However few consoles sell there (due to handheld dominance), console sales are nonetheless down and that's often the first indicator that a market is… Read more

My Dad works at an auto-wrecker, and has a lot of friends that work on cars, so I've heard the word "tranny" to refer to transmissions countless times. Read more

I must admit, I'm kind of intriqued by what the controller can offer gamers with disabilities. Read more

Having read "The Race for a New Game Machine: Creating the Chips Inside the Xbox 360 & the PlayStation 3", a book by two IBM engineers who worked on their respective CPUs, I don't have a lot of respect for the business sense of the higher-ups in Sony's gaming department. Whatever good points you can make about the… Read more

I was about to say that the 360 has the same amount of RAM as the PS3 and doesn't seem to suffer these problems, but then I remembered that the 360's RAM is UMA which makes a difference. Read more

Is a GPS device a clone of a paper map? That's a more accurate comparison of Kinect (3D cameras and voice-control) vs. the Eye Toy (a simple web cam). Or if you think that's an exaggeration (having used both, I'd argue it's not, but just in case you disagree) how about a wireless phone vs. a landline phone? Read more

Your logic is based on a false premise: that because you've seen similar games for both, that both are technologically similar. Ask any of the legions of hackers seeing what Kinect is capable of, and they'll tell you the two are worlds different. Read more

Interesting (and potentially valid) distinction between the two words. Read more

He's seen the Indiana Jones films too (read the article for clarification on that point). Read more

I suppose that depends on where you work. Read more

Being "gypped" is also offensive, as it refers to the alleged propensity of gypsies to rip people off, yet I hear it all the time, even from people who wouldn't negatively identify any other group. *sad sigh* Read more

I'm guessing we won't see/hear much about them at E3 2012. As others have said, Microsoft and Sony are enjoying year-over-year increases in sales for their current systems, and (outside Japan) software sales are still solid. The only major market where HD console sales are in precipitous decline is Japan, so that's… Read more

The PS3's in third place. Most people don't have a PS3. ;) Read more

See above. How is the Kinect an Eye Toy clone? Since when does the PS Eye Toy have a microphone for voice commands, and multiple cameras so that it can do proper depth perception? Love it or hate it, the Kinect is very different than what's come before. That's why hackers are stoked about Kinect, but ignored the… Read more

He likely knows nothing of the sort. The PS Eye does not have multiple cameras that build a 3D image with depth-sensing. Read more

I wonder if the DLC is included in that script or not? Read more

What about the people spending huge dollars on eBlorp to get the War for Cybertron bonus codes (different characters available at different retailers)? The only thing they hated was having to get the codes that way (at launch, at least). They certainly weren't uninterested in the pre-order content. Read more