Sheikah

While true, they're reliable enough that most people building a decent PC use one to store the OS and many commonly used applications. Flash storage has also dropped crazily in price in recent years. When Guild Wars 2 came out it cost me £80 for a 120GB SSD. Recently I bought a 240GB SSD for my sister's new laptop for £40.

I would happily see the Gamepad put to bed. I don't like it one bit.

It's not about the individual cost per unit, because that argument is naturally biased towards what you're arguing in favour of. It's that one guy may choose to funnel hundreds of pounds into amiibo, and ultimately have a load of toys, while one guy may choose to put all that money into one new piece of tech. It's easy to laugh at a very expensive single item while completely ignoring how easily similar amounts of money can be blown on things that some would believe are even more frivolous spends when taken collectively. Also...I don't think you can argue that just amiibos are fairly priced. Do you have intimate knowledge of the cost of the included tech in the Rift, along with development costs? The cost for this may well be fair, but I'm no expert. Saying it will never be a mainstream success at that price point, though, is a bit of a pointless comment. Of course it will not stay at that price point - so what is your point?

His point was that if you bought lots and lots of amiibo, which a lot of amiibo owners seem to, it can add up to hundreds of pounds.

The difference between 3DTV and VR is that one is what humanity has dreamed about and pined for since the early days of computers, while the other is what manufacturers figured we would just warm to. As long as there exists that passion for VR there will always be a market, and more importantly, enthusiastic people developing the technology. For those that think this is an impossible dream or unlikely, citing 1080p60fps issues of modern day - just look back twenty or thirty years and see what games looked like then. Heck, even last generation most console games were 720p30, while at least now many are 1080p30 or beyond. I don't think it's unrealistic at all to expect massive leaps in technology within 10 years to support VR more adequately.

@Shorty @Zell @Deathjam @MilaGi @DriftKaiser Just a reminder about tonight's raid, starting some time between half 7 and 8 (will aim for half 7). Both Zell and Shorty are good to continue on Friday since we probably won't manage to run all 3 instances of Oryx tonight. Is this good with everyone else?

Perhaps I am missing something here but it seems like you're pretty much admitting to deliberately ignoring the actual point I made because your grievance was "topic of the day".

It has shifted because you bloody well shifted it! You can clearly see where I quoted Dcubed because I disagreed that E3 was just for the press and developers involved; as shown by the reveal of several highly desired fan-service games as well as a gamer-targeted Kickstarter - all at E3. Then you started going on about recorded vs non-recorded events out of nowhere. Hello? As for the point you're now making - if having a pre-recorded conference had the same impact on the success and image of the game companies and publishers involved then live conferences would cease to exist. And the same goes for any other tech or software companies at all. Or heck, what about the scientific conferences I attended - why did these even take place? Surely it's the same if people just uploaded pre-recorded clips of themselves talking about their latest breakthrough rather than, oh, you know, turning up and actually properly engaging with people who share their passion? Fuck me.

Actually what he was saying was that E3 was for the press and publishers/devs and that Nintendo Directs are for the public, which is what I picked up on because that's simply untrue (at least these days). Given the conference is live streamed to an audience far larger than those in attendance, and that a recent one contained a direct appeal to gamers with a countdown to a kickstarter going live, it shows that the event is not just for the people attending at all. It's for gamers just as much, as we live in an information age where people enjoy being part of the hype and hearing information they crave as soon as it hits. And I'm sure there's many like me, who absolutely love the spectacle of a live performance and enjoy seeing the reaction as the news hits.

The Last Guardian, Final Fantasy VII remake and Shenmue 3 (including addressing gamers to visit the Kickstarter) - all announced at E3. Couldn't be further from the truth by saying that E3 press conferences are just for the press and publishers - these have become as much if not more for gamers ever since streaming became widespread. E3 is a really big deal to everyone and it always amazes me that Nintendo turned their back on it. Also, I don't think anyone is denying that Nintendo don't have some token offering at these conferences but without anything meaty being announced or presented it is not going to help them at all when it comes to networking and striking up conversations.

Maybe so, but we'd be kidding ourselves if we thought for even a second that anywhere near the number of people watching the world's biggest games conference watch the Directs (which is what I assume your pseudostatistics was trying to prove).

E3 has far more views than that. YouTube is just one of many streams.

The only people who watch Nintendo Directs are dedicated Nintendo fans. It's not going to be people interested in gaming in general, which is what E3 is all about. Importantly though, E3 has a much, much bigger audience. That fact alone is enough to select E3 over a Direct any day of the week, surely? You're also ignoring the fact that E3 is a massive networking event where conversations happen and impressions are made. Nothing at all is happening if you do a Direct.

Maybe this will make more sense to you - if all methods of information communication were ultimately the same as it 'all gets on the internet anyway' then that would mean TV advertising during a Downtown Abbey ad break would be as important as TV advertising at 2AM, or radio advertising. You and I both know that is true - thus, the time and place for communicating your product is very important. Saying that two entirely different ways of breaking your new product to the masses are the same would be more hilarious if I thought you were joking.

Because lots of people like tuning into big conferences like E3 where lots of information is disseminated in a very short time. All the attention is on that event because of the prestige and expectation, far more than on any small directs where people like myself will never be bothered to check it out. I strongly doubt many people bother watching those Directs. It's also in one place, which is nice.

As Nintendo have shown before they have the potential to make a press conference several times more epic than a Direct. Just because you don't like some of what goes on in them, doesn't mean it isn't the best thing for this kind of announcement. Directs always feel to me like a very niche thing that only the dedicated core can be bothered checking out. I hardly ever watch them.

It's actually pretty funny. It's great as it sends such a strong message that console gaming is booming - can only help bring more exciting games to the console.

I dunno, to say the same thing again but wearing a Mario hat and some visual FX? The usual really. You'd be amazed at how Nintendo can spin out of a pretty small deal over many directs.

They should do a press conference. Making a Direct is a bit like a home video - it might be more fun but it's just not appropriate.

Screw that, where is Kapp'n?

To everyone who is signed up now, does anyone have any alts who are not 311 minimum? @Shorty @Zell @Deathjam @MilaGi @DriftKaiser If someone only has 2 characters at 311 or above, for the third run they could switch out with @Eddage. This way we can guarantee we'll complete it 3 times (unlike where we only managed to do it once last time). Then more people get to run it, and we get three runs done. The loot is so good for Oryx that we really want to do it 3 times this time! Would people be available to continue this on Friday? I doubt we will do all 3 Oryx runs in one night.

Speaking to Zell and Shorty at the weekend and they both asked to be put down on the signup I'm gonna do. Anyone else up for hard challenge Oryx this Wednesday, start time between 7:30 and 8PM? Really we need people to be light 311 and up like I think we noted last time. Most likely we will do 1 run of Oryx at most on Wed due to the time, followed by the remaining runs another day (is Fri good for anyone?) It could be that if people have low light level alts that we could mix and match people so that people who are in reserve get tagged in for a run or two (as it really did seem like light levels below 311 struggled last time on Oryx challenge). Or not, if we don't have enough players! Also to avoid what happened last time, once we have 6 people confirmed, if someone can't make it we will probably let a reserve person in, if we have one. I think that's probably the fairest way since if we miss out on a day we might end up not finishing the challenge 3 times like last time (and it's a shame for everyone else). Sheikah Zell Shorty [space] [space] [space]

Yup. You'd have to be a madman to think there is going to be much of worth being announced for it. No idea why someone would look at past consoles and releases and try to say that is what will happen here. Wii U has bombed and it is on the way out. Xenoblade X aside, Nintendo released a load of garbage in the past few months as well, which says to me they have clearly lost interest.

I don't bereeeiiive you.