I bought one of those third-party joy-con with a proper d-pad (made by Hori). Only usable in portable mode, but given that I play it portable 90% of the time, it actually gives me a true d-pad for games that play better on one. I really like playing retro games (NES, SNES, Sega genesis collection, etc...) on the…

Mmmm.... not sure about that. Nintendo expressly mentionned one island “per system”. And they said AC won’t be compatible with cloud backups (WTF, Nintendo????) as to avoid manipulation / cheating. So my guess would be that saves won’t be stored on the SD cards but on the internal Switch memory, for the same reasons.

What’s a Vita?

Well, the Gamecube game had a “one island per memory card” rule. So everyone could get their memory card and have their own village and visit each other. Which was nice as everyone could do as they please on their own turf. If someone felt like digging holes everywhere, or cutting down all trees, well, go ahead and do…

One Island per system.

I think people underestimate the number of Switch owners that are actually parents who bought into the system because it allows them to play games again. I’m in that situation myself, and while I have all other platforms at home, I’d say 90% of my gaming time is done on the Switch. I’d still be playing game if relying…

I bought more games (way more games) for my Nintendo Switch over the last year than for all my other systems (XB1, PS4, PC) combined. In fact, some games I bought I already had on another platform, but because of the Switch’s portability, I can actually play them everywhere. And my main game time being in the train…

At some point you have to stop blaming developers for giving their audience what they want, and start blaming the audience for wanting it.

Maybe he stole tons of game cards for PSN, XBL, Nintendo eShop, Steam and the likes.... without knowing they’re worth nothing if unactivated....

There’s probably a collector’s or deluxe edition or two in there. ;)

Well, I’m pretty sure Gamestop will report the value of stolen used games (if there are any in the lot, as I’m sure there are) as the price they’re selling it at, not the price they actually paid for them. Remember folks, in today’s world, value is not defined by the actually cost of acquisition, but by how much…

I think it’s interesting to see, for the first time, what the future of this universe looks like. And I like what I see, as it doesn’t break anything that came before, but instead expands on it. It kind of goes along with past franchises (mainly TNG, DS9), in which we sometimes saw Starfleet from a less than stellar…

Thing is, what is “outdated”, when speaking about a TV? For many, it seems only about not having the latest tech, which is, IMO, consumerism at its finest. To me, “outdated” means not useful anymore, not being able to connect anything to it without resorting to adapters, or clearly lacking in some definite, concrete…

I remember someone once saying something in a funny thread about describing a whole series in a single sentence or something... And about DBZ, someone said: “People arguing & fighting over power levels for half an hour”.

That’s why about 10 years ago, I bought a Squeezebox Touch for my stepfather (that he can hook up to any audio system he wants), and we set him up a server with an old PC he had lying around to store all his music on. The Logitech Media Server (LMS) system is still widely supported these days (many NAS systems support…

...having a preponderance for calling back to what came before gets in the way of what could’ve been set up for the future

Thing is, we never know. And it’s not always the manufacturer’s fault. For instance, if Netflix requires some minimal version number to access its services, and the app isn’t updated for your TV, then you just won’t be able to watch Netflix anymore through this app. We can’t expect manufacturers to update their…

The problem is I don’t need to upgrade them as I don’t use them. Any “intelligent” feature of a TV set is a non-argument for selling me one. I just don’t care. The only “intelligent” features I may be interested in are the ones related to picture quality and stuff like this. I may want a new TV is a new one has better…

I get it they get updates through the internet. The problem is companies will stop updating them at some point, much before the TV’s end of life. I mean, maybe to some people, buying a new TV every three or four years is something “normal”, but it’s not to me. I expect my gear to last much longer than this.

I bought a 4K LG TV last year and the first thing I got when powering it up was a screen asking me to agree to their online security terms or whatnot, about my TV habits being sent to LG (for advertising purposes inside the TV OS) and other things like that. I was, WHAT?