It immigrated to America.... such a Flyjin!

Breakdown according to the source:

I don't think it will be entirely in color. It's customary for new manga/special edition manga to have the first few pages in color before switching back to the usual black and white.

This reminds of the Microsoft-Sony.com and Sony-Microsoft.com domains registered by MS 2 years ago.

Yeah, I remember playing with the fat one when the Xbox came out. It was humongous, haha. The S controller was the savior... I never touched the fat one after that again!

Yeah, It was actually inspired by many controllers. See the quote in my reply to Josph above to see how it was conceived.

That fat was certainly unique but it felt comically large in my hands so I still prefer the S controller.

I didn't say it was only for Japan. I said it was "used to appeal to Japan", i.e., it was purposefully designed for the Japanese market (and later made its way elsewhere as soon as they were able to manufacture more of it). Having a Japanese codename should provide a hint. There is a interesting article on this…

I want to see the banana inside this....

That's the S 'Akebono' controller used to appeal to Japan and not the original fat 'Duke' one.

I don't think they ever change console specifications to the better (other than shrinking the manufacturing process and optimizing chip design which make it cheaper to produce). After all, the PS3 still uses SATA I interface after all these years. Sony could have added USB3 ports in newer PS3 models as an incentive to…

You might have a point about product differentiation in motherboards.

Still, it's not necessarily expensive but it might be comparatively expensive. Even a few cents saved go a long way when we talk about millions of units in production. This is all speculative, of course. Without hard data, we cannot claim this or…

High-end GPUs like the 290x and 780Ti provides good enough performance with most games. You can get around 30fps with many games on a single card (not necessarily at the maximum settings but not much lower from it). Crysis 3 and BF4 are quite demanding, however. Having a CFX/SLI setup will boost your frames. It's…

That said, the particular SSD model they tested (Samsung EVO 256GB) has worse 4K Read/Write IOPS than the 500GB+ models. They also mostly tested disc-based games which they say are bottlenecked by the BD drive. Only one digital game was tested. If you go all digital, you will see more benefits but they are not that…

IGN has done a Speed Test Comparison

I guess they needed a building to match their luxurious lifestyles...

I think they are more interested in cutting down costs at the moment. If they can get away with a SATA II interface, there is no real reason for them not to; financially speaking.

Is it really? Mobo manufacturers still use some SATA II ports in addition to the SATA III ones in their cheaper motherboards. Only the top models get all SATA III connections.

It's likely SATA II. A commenter on Engadget said they installed an SSD but data transfer was limited to 260-280MBps.