Totally understandable, it's not for everyone.

This episode features John Hodgman reprising his role as Judge John Hodgman; that's an instant win right there, folks.

Ah yes, the episode that features bikini girls —- each with a different design, mind you —- for absolutely no reason. Also, wrestling is involved. With the bikini girls.

(Dang it, you beat me to it!)
"He's back in action and ready... for revenge!"

Mojang's Marc Watson says this:

Sort of, but not for the initially apparent reasons: it's easy to get thrown off by the 'Persocom' business, but it doesn't actually go the sexbot route as the relationship between Hideki and Chii is largely father/daughter; it's a little naughty from time to time, but it's never really dirty.

... oh man, I forgot all about that!
So. Much. This.

It's not even a pad at all, really; possibly part of the rationale is to keep handedness uniform.

Let's not forget this bad boy either!

The truly frightening thing here is that the rings are easily the best part of that game.

I've listen to Valve talk on their design process with the controller, and this very thing was mentioned, and even implemented at one point, so: you probably don't.

Except ESDF is inherently superior. ; p

It's not going to work as well, but part of the design goal was to make playing Counter Strike or DOTA 2 both possible and pleasant; to those ends, they claim to have an desirable level of success.

Regarding 'haptic', I posted about this on a different thread; hope that helps.

'Haptic' is not vibration, it's the sense of touching things, or communicating events to the player physically. The term really came into vogue with the advent of touchscreen gaming, where you might have a virtual d-pad but can't actually feel it (often adversely effecting gameplay experience), and the same sort of…

These are the biggest issues that come to mind:

I'd worried about this plenty going into EVO2013, and while plenty of Foxs did show, there was plenty of excitement in Armada's Peach and Wobbel's Ice Climbers.

Not until they balance Ness's sB it wouldn't. ; )

Hey, I mentioned this idea on another thread, but owing to your apparent knowledgeability of the subject, I thought I'd run it by you too:

That and a little bit of image, I think; it sounds a bit silly to you or me to worry about that sort of thing, but to a big company like Nintendo, I can understand it: a bunch of highly competitive gamers in a sometimes impolite setting? That goes against the easy-access family-gaming initiative at the heart of Big…