Nolan

You weren't released, you escaped.

Nabbing Capcom as a dev is certainly good news. Though Capcom has always seemed to willing to risk releasing on Nintendo (dead rising Wii anyone?). But still good news. With any luck the next Dead Rising or even something similar to the DR triple pack could also release. Almost certainly a good chance for Monster Hunter. And an unlikely wish for more Devil May Cry. Though I think Capcom has already decided to be done with the series (and sadly Bayonetta makes a good case for not releasing it on Nintendo anyway.)

You might still dislike it. In my opinion and experience even post update the Xbox One OS is sluggish and a rather poor user experience.

Moonrise Kingdom is probably one of my favorites now that I've seen it. It's just such a grand happy film with well placed comedy. Haven't yet seen Grand Budapest Hotel though, and Pans Labyrinth is an old favorite I should have bought ages ago. I have V for Vendetta, but never finished reading it. Didn't grasp me very well :/

We don't hug either. Of course I'm a far removed mutt mixed with with some German

A lot of people have 4K TVs, or have interest in them. Most market projections show 4K as a relatively booming market with millions sold worldwide this year. I won't say they aren't a luxury item, but the prices of 4K vs 1080p TVs are extremely close to the point most people in the market for a TV will likely make the jump to 4K. It's not exactly an emerging market at this point, it's established and growing. As a bullshit guess, I wouldn't be surprised if 4K market penetration now is higher than HDTV (720/1080) penetration was 2005/2006 when the 360 and PS3 released tailored to HDTV gaming.

Pans Labyrinth is going to be 10 years old this year. As good a reason as any to rewatch it. Course I had to buy a copy as well.

Jim Sterling has his review up. http://www.thejimquisition.com/recore-review/ He seemed to enjoy it overall but the load times are so far beyond unacceptable. He broke out the stop watch and clocked load times from 1:00-1:42. That's even worse than Bloodborne when it released.

I have not. I didn't even know it was being made into a PC game.

For months leading up to this announcement you were pissed that Sony was starting a new generation and you were positive that you'd have to spend money because your current PS4 would suddenly be obsolete. Now you're acting rather salty about the whole thing, and that bolded sentence really beats all. You were certain such rumors were wrong not too long ago. Further thinking on this. It somewhat reminds me of the Xbox 360, original release was no HDMI and no 1080p. Later on 1080p via component was added through firmware and hardware revisions added in a HDMI port. Upgraded power was necessary here, but the HDMI hardware also needed to be upgraded for 4K as well. It's a move designed to support more TVs more suitably.

They might not be pretty, but aren't those sandwiches almost always better?

I more or less agree, but I was hoping for the UHD drive. It's a lost sale, and I doubt I'm alone. It is a misstep on their and does give a bonus to Microsoft. I do agree that it's not a huge mistake; let's be real 4KTV market penetration isn't huge yet and the media available is an even smaller pool. I mean how many actual 4K Bluray movies are out? And I don't mean the ones masters in 4K and then scaled down to 1080p. Really the pro will likely be the top seller come Christmas, the latest and greatest always has appeal.

Well I'm out. I was debating a 4K tv, and now, I suppose I'll just wait. 5 year old plasma still has a great picture anyways. (I just wanted an excuse for bigger)

Maybe they'll pull a Saturn.

About fucking time.

I doubt they will honestly. I reckon that it'll be a similar campaign to the Wii U. They need to spend the money and just bombard the public with ads. Television, and Billboards. Hell the sides of buses even. If it's radically different in some way they need to do demo stations. Travel countries and set up in venues for short times, let people see what it offers that's new and different. Let people get a whack a new Mario or the new Zelda. (Could backfire and attract more hardcore gamers, still helps word of mouth spread) if it truly is a hybrid though this could showcase the differences between on the go and chilling at home playing. And get some fucking 3rd parties with new games of established franchises, not older ports. Pay for an exclusive even the way MS used to do, or timed exclusivity. Imagine if they ponied up for the next Bioware game for a year, or battlefield or a from software title. It would help. Obviously we know from the Capcom 5 on the GameCube it won't solve everything but it certainly helps. These are things they need to do and advertise early on though. With hard release dates showing minor droughts.

How fast did it move? I definitely don't think a Hard Drive is the way to go on a portable, I'm not arguing that at all. But they're far more robust than people seem to think. It's not like a CD being read in your discman. I'm pretty rough on laptops, my first even ended up with a shattered screen from a fall, but the HDD kept trucking on for years. They can fail though (but so does flash). The biggest issue is that they'd be much heavier larger and use more power.

Firstly, not true. Secondly I wasn't trying to address that part of the storage debate, just the fact that there's little reason for any of the makers to not include some amount of storage, and that you get more for your money when buying bigger amounts. It's just unfortunately a larger buyin price then.

Ironically, price per GB is higher for the 500gb anyway. That's why they stick them in though, the price per GB for a HDD is dirt cheap these days (between $0.02 and $0.06) That 6 cents figure is for the 500GB at about $30. Considering general expectations are now that a console will have some form of memory, plus that the other two consoles require game installs, they might as well include a hard drive. Factor in that smaller sizes aren't that much lower in price (and the per GB keeps rising) 500 or 1TB kinda makes sense. And Flash(and SSDs) are around $0.30-$0.60 per GB once again smaller sizes having an effective high price.

Moonrise Kingdom is my new favorite movie currently. I also have a good hankering to watch the original Evil Dead trilogy. It's been years.

Well my mistake on that. Yeah game card, 32 should be plenty.

Your list is a little skewed. Donkey Kong on the 3DS, but not the Wii U list. 11.4 GB I don't play any game less than 44GB, otherwise what's the point? The fact that no single game took up all of the available storage space is barely true. Lego City clocks in at 22GB. Now disregarding that, it's just silly to say "32GB is fine because no single game is that large." Should we only care about more storage once games are literally as large as our storage? Personally I like having more than one game installed at a time. It's pretty convenient to not have to redownload a game each time I might want to play. And it's great that Nintendo games are typically much smaller, but you can max out the Wii U with just 2 titles. Donkey Kong and Smash Bros.

It's hard to say really. GC games had maxes between 1.5 and 3GB depending on how many discs, but I'm sure there were plenty of games that don't even reach 1.5GB. Then we also know nothing of the OS and how much space will be reserved for it. But assuming worst case in game size and best case on OS 32/1.5=21 GC games. Factor in possible apps, and NX games, patches, DLC, and other, VC games, OS data, and save data. 32 could get eaten up quickly.