Mass Deduction (née scrapking)'s discussions

Unlocking phones is generally not very difficult. Perhaps unlocking the 3G Vita will also prove similarly easy. If so, then this is no big deal. Read more

That's... actually really sweet. Read more

What bugs me is when people refer to a system as a "game". As in, someone buying a console or handheld for another person for Christmas saying "I have to go to the store to get that game for [recipient]." Read more

"It was the Divers 2000 series CX-1 Dreamcast, a monstrosity of a thing that, for all the things that were wrong with it - and there were many - was, like the console itself, a lovable little scamp in spite of them." Read more

I do part with games, but I rarely (if ever) part with systems. Read more

You made generalisms about women, and about males that like what you consider to be things for "chicks", and then wrapped it all up with "to each their own." The latter does not excuse the bigotry of the former. Would it be OK if you changed your statement from "girlish" to a slur about homosexuals, then tacked on… Read more

It absolutely is a point in the 360's favour, when discussing what price points you can get the core system down to. We're not talking about what people on Kotaku know, and are prepared to do. Since we're talk about last-gen systems living on at lower and lower price points we're talking about what the average… Read more

From Wikipedia [en.wikipedia.org] Read more

All along I've been expecting a PS4/X720 appearance at this E3 unlikely. Why would they are likely not quaking in their boots over the Wii U, and when the 360 and the PS3 are still enjoying year-over-year sales increasing far further into their lifespans than typical systems? Read more

So what if he was playing My Little Pony? If he can shop at Gamestop, then he lives in a free country (I'm not aware of any Gamestops operating in totalitarian states). Read more

I have a few Red Vs. Blue t-shirts that make sense to only the few in on the joke. My favourite: "That's right, I'm a gay robot." Read more

Hardest part to look past: "pwn" is pronounced "own", not "pown". That's half the point, if you pronounce it "pown" you've pwned yourself. Read more

Tell me about it. Though my Halo of choice these days is Halo Wars. Read more

You're right of course, a future 360 redesign could jettison the ability to plug in an HDD. That seems like an unlikely scenario to me, however. With the PS2, only a single game required a hard drive (FF XI) and only a small few games utilised it in any way. In North America, for example, only 29 games ever… Read more

The lack of an integral HDD doesn't preclude people eventually getting one, once they're into the system and buying content for it. I bet a significant percentage of "core"/"Arcade"/4GB system owners eventually get an HDD. Read more

Microsoft won't be spending billions more repairing Xbox 360s now, as the newer 360s are far more reliable and the older 360s are now mostly all out of warranty. So that point is not relevant to the business case for the 360. Read more

Interesting observation. I'm not sure what I'm more impressed by, you noticing that or you actually watching that far into the video! Read more

I've never understood what companies were thinking when they set up defined benefit pension plans. They're little better than a ponzi scheme, and can only last if the younger section of the company's employment roll grow ad infinitum, or if investment returns in the plan never fail to be extremely robust. How can… Read more

10 million? Microsoft has sold 66 million. Given Microsoft has sold 66 million 360s, far more than almost every console ever made (inlcuding more than the NES, SNES, Genesis, etc.), that Microsoft has spent billions repairing 360s and getting them back out into the wild, and that 360 game sales are very strong, it's… Read more

Given Microsoft has spent billions repairing Xbox 360s. Billions. That means that lots of them back in the wild. That means, try another argument. :P Read more