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You don't understand why Nintendo would do that? For one, Nintendo has an eshop where they sell several similar Metroid games, such as Super Metroid. This game given away for free could be expected to take sales away from Nintendo because it competes with those games directly.

I wonder what the design goals here are: -must look a bit like a coffin -has to be loud as hell -has to cost a lot -should be a big pain when moving -needs to have a large flat surface you can never put anything on or near

I think what bothers me about a game like this being taken as some sort of evidence about psychology is that the game is set up in every way to encourage violence. Meanwhile, there are no means of interacting in ways that build stability or order, even if you want to. There are benefits to...

I haven't said anything about consoles not having an optical drive. Since they generally are only cost effective by having one design and all users have the same hardware, then it makes sense that there has to be a drive. I also started my aside with THIS IS A BIT OF A SIDE POINT. I said that...

I don't speak for "people" nor they for me. I do not care what anyone else has said. If you would like to say that for <1% of people the PC costs more, fine. But the statement "a gaming PC generally needs an optical drive" is just false. Movie watching is irrelevant to a discussion about gaming.

I get the pros/cons of each and find they both have their place (I like my PC and my Nintendo). I think the cost comparison discussion is interesting because it has changed so much over the last 2-ish decades. When the SNES was released it cost about $200 (in 1991 dollars). The cheapest PC at...

It does not matter if it is "going a bit far". This discussion is about gaming and consoles versus PCs. Non-gaming needs are simply not relevant to a comparison between console and PC gaming and especially the costs associated with PC gaming. Older games are also mostly irrelevant to the...

We're talking about a gaming machine. If you have a non-gaming need for such things, then you've already bought an optical drive and whatever else you need for that non-gaming function. I have no idea what you could mean by "doing things the way they were meant to be done".

This is a side note really, but there is very little reason to own an optical drive. I have one in my PC, which is 1.5 years old. I have never used it. Not once. My Asus Zenbook has no optical drive. It's never mattered.

But the gaming experience is similar. I agree the PS4 is ahead, but that's only true at the lowest of price ranges. Adding as little as $50 or $60 can put the PC ahead.

That's a good system for the money. The APU is especially impressive for the price/performance. It won't out-do a PS4 though. It's in the same performance area.. you can run lower settings/higher fps or vice versa. The devs will also probably squeeze some more power out of the PS4 over time. But...

At the moment I think the consoles are price-competitive (taking into account not just resolution, but graphical complexity, post-processing and all that). But it'll be really sad a year from now (ostensibly, just 1/6th or so into the console platform's life) when bargain basement PC's will...

The portability aspect I think is meant to refer to the possibility that you have multiple docks in different places. It says so at their indiegogo page. E.g. at work, maybe couple in the home, one on the tv for gaming and another for your desk to be your PC. It's not a bad idea, and we'll...

How is this better than standard radio communication? It seems awful, by comparison.

I don't find the graphics impressive or all that different from GTA IV. They make nice shaders for the consoles, those get better. But the poly count and this the level of geometric detail is the same. Imagine how it might look not chained to hardware from ~5 generations of GPU/CPUs ago.

It's no advance in Pixels per inch, sadly. That's actually what will improve visual quality, at least for PCs. For TV's it's bigger, but offers no more definition than 1080p TVs of conventional sizes.

directx 11. VLC reports around 9mbps as it stutters. It's definitely uneven. Scenes with lots of movement, higher bitrate req'd = more pauses or stutters. Nvidia drivers I have installed at 275.50.

Sorry, should have said. H264, no set bitrate afaik. I tested a 1080 WMV just to see and it seemed fine.

This has been vexing me for many months. My system has no trouble playing full 1080p blu-ray movies- whether directly from the disc, or after ripped to my external eSATA storage array. I play them with Corel or cyberlink, either way fine. Trouble is if I download a 1080p video from anywhere...

Yeah but images like this seem meant to look futuristic, but not actually be futuristic. It's like 1950's images of people flyin around on jetpacks and using convoluted appliances for tasks that don't require them. Buttons are not bad, they are awesome. Someone tell Apple that please...

No. Why the hell would anyone want to doing any significant amount of typing on a flat surface? One of the best inventions ever was buttons. When there is a tech that gives you precise and immediate tactile feedback about location of your fingers and state of the key.. then okay. Right now we...

a pricey 2 seater with no trunk? Great idea. because one thing people don't want in an efficient EV is utility.

I have this on Wii. Two things: It's not especially dark. The settings may not be day-glow disney stock but your only "weapons" are paint and paint thinner. The thinner just eventually makes stuff vanish. Secondly, it's not especially good. If Super Mario Galaxies 1&2 didn't exist I might not...

ya AR is pretty cool especially for smartphones I'd say.. the potential is there but this demo of it was awful. Number one, this type of application isn't taxing any modern desktop CPU so it sure as hell isn't an ad for i5's awesome powers.. number two, I have no idea why I'd want to do any of...

wow 3-d graphics and video can be more annoying and unwieldy than ever before! Thanks intel!

You missed my point entirely. I did not mean that we can not complain about a thing because it is new or more advanced than previous technology (for example RAMBUS memory sucked big when it was brand new, Vista, etc). I meant that it makes no sense to complain about something for which something...

At least the wiimote has buttons. There is no non-awkward hand gesture for 'shoot/pull trigger'. Anyway why all the wii hate? Yeah the graphics are not a priority for Nintendo.. yeah it's unfortunate that sooo many titles feel the need to tack on motion controls where they do nothing but...

Making computers smaller always costs more. This is a product that didn't even used to exist before a few years ago, outside of a few super-expensive niche products. The fact that you can get a tiny computer running standard OS and apps for less money than you'd spend on a larger machine is...

neat demo I suppose but nothing I would call useful. I'm going to take time to photograph something I could google from the main screen in half (or because I have buttons probably 1/4 ) the time? unlikely. Maybe if picture taking with a cell were much faster/easier.

Exactly who is this line directed at? "vista's not going to have any of the problems XP had" Fail.

Flimsy article, at best. I imagine Wired just wanted to try and appear fair by doing a pros and cons pair of articles. Trouble is there just isn't much to complain about with 7. I would have said not enough of a performance upgrade over Vista or XP.. but even this is a minor gripe.

I'm not a programmer type.. but uh isn't the guts of IE really integrated into the OS of every modern incarnation of windows and having IE "not installed" really just a superficial change.. removal of short-cuts, window labels, and file associations and such? I don't use IE either (I like...

I for one applaud the EU for their courage in telling me, the consumer, what I am not capable of choosing for myself. I look forward to Nintendo being forced to sell PS3 controllers with every Wii , (why should I be required to use Nintendo controllers? madness!) and buying a Volkswagen with a...

Real or fake.. who the fvck would ever want to play portal that way? Keep playin yer marble tilt game, ladies.

re: 30" desktops Those of you that have this already.. isn't it a bit large/unwieldy for a desktop? Not being blind I really don't want a massive display so close to my eyes. I have a 24" now and it seems big both in terms of footprint and that I have to space it a bit from my eyeballs. Maybe...

Not impressed. It doesn't seem much different from good HAVOK implementations. It seems you can have more objects with more detail and that's cool but certainly no "wow" to it. The physics animation isn't any better with many distracting, old flaws as others have noted. I'd prefer a physics...

Agreed, Loki. I just don't find the comparison meaningful. When it comes to the brain, the software is everything. Mice and humans have the same type of hardware, neurons are basically neurons. Whales and elephants have twice our hardware- 200 billion neurons. Perhaps the video should have...

Some interesting stuff, but also a lot of speculation and misleading or bs info. Population numbers don't tell you anything about IQ distribution. It's been shown conclusively that things like education and diet (among others) influence IQ. Half of India probably doesn't have running water...

Met-al's point about big box shipping is salient but you missed mine- if my HD is bad, I take it back the same day and get a new one. I don't have to play post office and wait days for replacements that might also be bad. I never said I was certain it was even a shipping issue. Perhaps the...

In the past few months I have ordered 9 drives from Newegg of the following shipping/manu. pattern: 1x Seagate 1TB (shipped w/o other items) 2x Samsung 1TB / 1x WD 640GB (these were bought as a set with other equipment, not shipped solo) 5x Samsung 1TB (shipped w/o other items) 6 of the...