And you felt compelled to trans people what they should and shouldn't be bothered by...why, exactly?

I'm referring specifically to this line:

"Where Mario 64 was a revolution, and Mario Galaxy a reinvigoration, SM3DW can sometimes feel a little tired."

Congratulations?

Which part do you disagree with specifically? The idea that trying to compensate affected customers would be a good PR and customer relations move for Sony?

"Are we done yet? I'm feeling pretty done."

Given that I'm no longer even sure what the hell point you're trying to make beyond scoring cheap rhetorical points, probably so.

(And yes, whether or not you're trans IS relevant and isn't "off topic" if you're telling trans people what they should and shouldn't be bothered…

Eh...that doesn't strike me as much of a deal.

Companies LOVE replacement plans. There's a reason Best Buy/Gamestop/whoever tries to sell you one almost every time you buy anything. It's because they end up making a lot of money from them. Unless the failure rate on whatever they're selling is absurdly high, those…

"Why would they? Would any company with any product do such a thing?"

Customer relations and PR. Companies do it all the time.

I just chalk it up to heightened tensions as the console wars come to a full boil. But yeah, it's bizarre and frustrating. You'd think I'd claimed that the PS4 causes cancer or something.

Are you trans? If so, then how you feel might be relevant. If not, then, well, I don't see why you bring it up.

Just as an example, the little post-fight quotes in Street Fighter x Tekken relating to Poison included stuff like Ryu's (paraphrased) "Your looks are deceptive! I must be careful not to fall into your trap!"

Sorry, I don't mean to belabor the point. I'm only trying to clarify this because you seem genuinely nice (and, by the way, thank you. I cannot tell you how many times I've had this conversation go another way entirely.)

It's still a word that has some pretty nasty connotations. Ask yourself: how do you think the term…

No one is "entitled' to anything. It's weird how people keep reading that into my comment; I can only assume there's a certain amount of, uh, console warfare going on.

What I was saying is that, as a gesture from Sony, it would be a good idea. Compare it to the PSN outage, where they offered people a choice of a few…

Oh, sure, polycount can absolutely affect performance. That's not the only (or even necessarily the biggest) factor in animation, though. A lot of it has more to do with how the character's skeleton is set up (range of motion, etc.) and how the game engine handles blending between different animation states (note how…

I was going to respond to the entire post, but then I got to this bit:

"Feminism is woefully misguided. Equality for all is what we should strive for."

And that quote pretty clearly demonstrates to me that you don't understand what feminism actually is and are instead operating from the bizarre, stereotypical Rush…

"Well, first you interjected yourself into the conversation I was having, so...I could just ignore you, if you like."

Yes, I'm so sorry for "interjecting" myself into the public conversation you were having on the public forum. How intrusive of me.

"Also, I've not made a single excuse for your bad behavior"

Reading…

No, to be clear, you disagree with a point that I never actually made.

But keep on thrashing that straw man.

"They're selling a brand and more specifically a console... giving away free shit because of the usual over the top internet shit storm is a sign of bad management."

Did you feel the same about their reaction to the PSN outage?

"Straight out of the box is under warranty. I have yet to gain something BEYOND what I paid…

And you're the perfect example of this generation's myopic, belligerent console warrior. So congrats on that.

When did I say they were "entitled" to anything?

I said Sony should do it, as in "It would be a smart way for Sony to turn a negative story into a positive bit of customer relations/PR."

It's no different from…

And that would be entirely adequate. Seriously.

People act like I'm saying Sony is OBLIGATED to give people a free Vita, or something. A month of PS+ would be 100% in line with the sort of customer relations gesture you often see companies make.

"They acknowledge that the system was faulty and offered to replace the system with NO CHARGE to you."

Which is, again, the bare minimum that they should do. What's the alternative? "Hey, sorry we sold your faulty hardware. Guess you gotta buy another one!"

The degree to which people are reading into my comment is,…

And it's still a problem that inconveniences the customer (and, in this case, presumably their most loyal customers).

They're not obligated to do anything beyond replace the machine, but from a PR standpoint, it wouldn't hurt.

So why even bother to respond, other than to spout a bunch of gender-essentialist nonsense and make excuses for people's bad behavior?