I thought I had read it in a previous article about the controller, but I'll happily be wrong!

That's the same reason I stopped eating. I mean... I'm just going to die someday anyway.

I don't understand the lack of rumble on Nintendo's "classic" Wii controllers, or on this one.

That was never "by definition" at all. It was established that destroying a relay by hitting it with an asteroid was a very, very bad thing. It was not established that the relays, carrying out a pre-programmed self termination sequence, would destroy anything at all.

I can definitely see this viewpoint, but I thought that final ending sequence was tremendously exhilarating. Loved it.

"Even if we were to believe that Wii U was so underpowered that it would look like someone smeared their own vomit on your plasma screen whenever you booted up a game, how is that even an issue? .... this whole article is relying on the assumption that Microsoft and Sony will release new consoles, and when they do,…

Pretty much this. DLC is a great idea in theory, but now the waters have gotten so murky that it all just feels like a hustle.

Pretty much this. DLC is a great idea in theory, but now the waters have gotten so murky that it all just feels like a hustle.

You're leaving out the third and most likely option:

The new screen will be the same resolution as before, so in that sense, it will just be "blown up." But since the pixels will still match one-to-one, it's not like there's going to be fuzziness from image scaling or anything. Everything should look crisp and clear.

It's an optional attachment, sure, but unless they plan on releasing an XL version of that attachment (which maybe they are, I have no idea), it means that XL owners can't enjoy that option.

Pretty much.

I've really been enjoying D3, and I generally think most of the anti-Blizzard bandwagoners need to shut the hell up.

Low draw distance doesn't make things look blurry, it just makes them not show up.

Part of the "blurriness" in the old version is the paper texture effect that was layered over the entire game. That was removed in later ports, and it looks like it will be removed from the HD version as well.

I don't really understand why Mario games even have lives anymore. In Galaxy, there was no effective difference between losing one life and losing all your lives. It was just slightly more inconvenient if you lost all of them.

Uh... you can still watch movies and use apps on this. But when you want to type, you have a keyboard.

Vaporware... that word...

You have to move your entire arm to get across a 6 inch screen?

I think there's a pretty big difference. Consoles, in their way, define a technological generation. The replacement is typically a completely new machine with wildly different capabilities than the previous one.