I owned two first series Elite controllers—both worked flawlessly, both for joystick inputs (unlike my experience with the Switch, sadly), and inputs. I say “two”, because my launch model only stopped working after a particularly rage inducing randomly generated sub-boss in Soulcalibur VI led me to smack my controller…

I owned two first series Elite controllers—both worked flawlessly, both for joystick inputs (unlike my experience…

I hope yours is in better shape than mine. The replacement process for PS3 fan is not exactly “easy”, but without it, mine is basically on the slow march to heat death (and I’m not convinced I could swap out the fan without breaking it, leaving me out one BC PS3).

I still buy physical releases (going as far as to stop by my local Gamestop since they had exclusivity over the physical releases of the Ghostbusters remaster last year). I have roughly 30 physical releases on Xbox One, and my whole library of non-free Playstation 4 games is physical (primarily imports). It hasn’t…

You have my sympathy. At the risk of becoming political (too late), my own admiration for Pres. Tsai, and her campaign (as the two became increasingly difficult to differentiate, inevitably) declined pretty swiftly in the last years in the aftermath of the pension reform movement (and the government’s unsurprising…

Get in line, MP Lai.

No, you’re not (and people claiming the contrary are wrong because we’ve already had these for more than ten years):

Your concerns aren’t misdirected, but I also wonder about the second point. We’ve endured a couple generations of “Yeah, this looks a lot like a last generation game running at higher resolutions”—looking at PS3 launch titles that look like upscaled PS2 games (hopefully nice ones, but the point remains). On top of the…

Huh, I really didn’t think so (and you’re the first person to point that out). I even said “about 400 games”, since there are obviously more than that in the total library. But I can see the confusion: the entire BC program only works on the Xbox One consoles (but it is not the entire library of Xbox 360 and Xbox).…

They’re not. This is why I said “+400 games”—there are way more than 400 Xbox 360 and Xbox games. Among my favorites, Dead or Alive 3 and Dead or Alive 4 aren’t, but Ninja Gaiden Black and Ninja Gaiden II are. 

It probably will. Even if it didn’t, I seriously doubt they’d both be USB-C. 

Pretty much all Samsung QLEDs (“Quantum” LED--branding nonsense, but they’re unparalleled UHD gaming televisions, even if you’re not worried about OLED burn-in from static elements like menus or the HUD) have Freesync baked in now. It’ll probably become “standard” on UHD sets with more than one HDMI port in the near…

I like it. I don’t think it’s some sort of masterpiece, but I’m not going to make the same claim about Infinity War either. I think it’s visually stunning, and it’s a memorable if cliched twist on Dances with Wolves with the United Fruit massacres and extraterrestrial exploration. I really couldn’t care less about Fern…

This was easier to picture in the old “expanded universe” literature when the Emperor was established as, at some point, not being old and wrinkly. Three or four decades as galactic dictator, excluding his senatorial career in the decadent ancien regime, did a number on him. But, like Lincoln or Obama, it was a…

Yes I have. And yes, they’re bigger compared to the Xbox One X and (modern) Playstation 4. It matters only as a consideration of whether a PC with the console hardware built into it has an advantage of convenience and size, like if you were moving the hardware around. So it matters to some people sometimes, otherwise…

(That +400 game BC program is Xbox One-only and isn’t available on PC. For some reason I thought that was self-evident, but it might not be.)

You could play the BC Xbox 360 and original Xbox libraries on it, since all those titles are available digitally (which is more than 400 games, if memory serves). Likewise, your current library would carry over.

It’s mysterious, like a lot of things re: PSN. 

I don’t think that’s entirely true, because almost all my precise readings of download speeds on PSN involve me staring at the actual progress meter in the system UI outside of games (to be fair, I don’t always close them out of suspension, but I frequently do). “One-fifth” isn’t just vague guessing, it’s actual math.…

Having finally bought a Playstation 4, I’m frustrated by how agonizingly (it’s a good word for the situation) slow software updates are. I’ve got “average” (240 down/12 up) cable internet from Charter Spectrum. My Xbox One can regularly download games at 100 to 150 mbps.

With PSN, I’m lucky if I get a fifth that on the…

Blades of Time was actually considered a reasonably good looking game—not Ninja Gaiden or Devil May Cry 4 when they came out, but the environments got praise for their scope and diversity, even if they still looked rather rough at time. It wasn’t considered ugly for a Xbox 360 (or PS3) game at the time, just…