Well, I am 21 years old and nintendo's offerings appeal to me very much. You wouldn't believe the amount of hours of use my 3DS has on. At least 800+ hours only on mariokart 7 and monster hunter 3 ultimate. I've 100%ed pikmin 3 about 4 times now. What the market seems to not understand is that a game does not need to…

It's a good thing these gimmicks have been the home to my favorite games of all time. I can't imagine playing my DS and 3DS titles (bar NSMB) on a non-dual screen device.

You keep popping up the ·speculation· argument vs anyone who tries to direct you to Valve's official statements that they will release offline patches if they ever go out of bussiness, but in time you, yourself, are speculating that they will go out of bussiness without doing so (contradicting direct evidence).
Steam…

Give the full game a try, for your own sake. I got this game and bravely default for christmas... I've done 1 hour in bravely and about 11 in mario and luigi. By far the best game of the mario&luigi series. Music is excellent. Dialogues are brutally funny. And oh boy, the nightmare world... I swear at the start it…

I take it you don't read that many books, or don't fully enjoy them?

To be honest, I actually like what they did with windows 8. The aesthetics help (a lot) the feel of a smoother-running machine, and I'm a sucker for geometry and clean lines. What I find ridiculous, though, is the interface in the Xbox One. It seems absurdly bland and lacking of content. Navigation is awful. They have…

well, of course it's just hypothetical. Some other possibility that comes to mind, though, is that an employee used the device and then returned it and sold it as new, without anyone else knowing. Having worked in a Game, this is surprisingly frequent.

Even if it was resealed (which is unlikely, because the only ones allowed to reseal is nintendo themselves, and they'd do a product inspection before sending it in, companies that allow returned items to be sent back to factory do that) , did they not walk through with their children when they turned it on for the…

"nintendo is doomed, just look at their poor 3ds! the vita will blow it out of the water! 3DS is not even selling well, nintendo will be forced to either develop for the vita or for mobile platforms"
-everyone everywhere a year from 3ds's launch

They won't leave because of the initial cost, but if the one continues to barely break even and will need a reduced price next year, MS will drop out of the gaming market. I say this because, in case you don't remember, the xbox line is holding more than 4billion of their original 5billion loss on the xbox360…

Expectation is unreasonable? Did they not find it weird that the security seals that are specifically put so that you know when a product has been opened before were already open? It's the first thing I and every sane person in this world check when buying a new device: has the seals been broken.

I'll give you something: No Layton games (really, one would have done), no castlevania, and no Horror genre games (dementium the ward was pretty good).

I went on with AMD instead of intel purely because the nice people at /r/buildapcforme recommended it very very strongly. Also, most of my colleagues have AMD processors, and everyone seems to say they are better at gaming, since the AMD processors are generally better at multitasking than intel ones (specially on…

Building the PC without the monitor (considering the consoles also require a screen to hook them up to). I did this build a couple of months ago when I was starting to look into getting myself a good gaming rig, had some nice rebates and sales offer, today the price has gone about 100€ up, but looking a little in…

I do not just feel it, I'm certain. Think about the following: when you are buying a PC you are not buying just a games console, even if that is the main reason you are upgrading your hardware or just replacing it entirely. You are also getting your workstation, your entertainment station. And of course, your gaming…

And exactly this, here is the problem with consoles. Yes, xbone and PS4 are brand new consoles, but keep in mind: they are also computers. Can you not but brand new 2013 hardware and fire up a couple of MS-DOS games? Not offering backwards compatibility between two similiar mediums (DVD - Bluray on the latest ps3s) is…

You said consoles are initially cheaper than PCs, to which I said that this is no longer true (except the WiiU, of course). Xbone and ps4 bundle prices go up to 500€, at which price you can build your own PC that comes out on top of both consoles and plays your extensive steam library from the get go, plus steam sales…

The thing is: once you assemble your PC that's it. The next time you'll to any "assembling" is when you change your graphics card 4-5 years down the road, and that's just 10 minutes of work.
Another thing I find insulting that is not mentioned: BACKLOG. Shit, Nintendo can do it, why not sony and MS? I have 60+ps3 games…

This is not true anymore considering most One and PS4 bundles go from 500 bucks and up with a game. You can build a pretty decent 500 bucks PC and play your already amassed steam library on it or get a couple of 4-5€ AAA titles this sales season for it.

First of all, you can kill the apple software updater if that is your major issue.
The fact that you can't redownload is your own fault for installing / uninstalling it so much: you can only get 5 systems authorized at a time. You should have deauthorized when uninstalling to prevent problems. Even then, you can always…