If you like sports games the option to not buy at all just has you lose out, but I don't know why more people don't just get games every 2-3 years.

Madden does try to add new things and improve gameplay, except more often then not it seems to mean the addition of mechanics or features people don't like, which then get removed the following year and replaced with something else.

Therein lies the difference. I hated widgets on a desktop but on phones I've found them to be much more useful. If someone is basing their opinion of widgets exclusively on desktop experiences, I'd say try it on a phone first.

I've never really got this type of view because it's such a blanket statement that doesn't really seem to make sense.

From a Guardian interview with Rockstar co-founder, VP of Creativity, and co-writer of most GTA games, Dan Houser:

Probably stems from the same logic that has so many companies willing to throw tons of money at basically anything as long as it's not towards raises for staff below middle management.

I remember in the late 80s/early 90s there were a lot of kids getting Starter hats and jackets ripped off.

I should note I do only get NHL every other year. I'm not kind of held hostage by a group of friends that update every year and so force me to or be left behind in an online team/league, but I realize not everyone can or does.

I can't play The Show (no PS3) and last had Madden in 2008 (09), but have more experience with the NHL franchise.

The drive upgrades were always overpriced, and I'm sure most people didn't want to bother with the hassle of getting a drive and a casing separately and flashing firmware or whatever else you had to do to get that to work.

Agreed, I thought the same thing.

People will always love a brand war, and some brands - especially in the context of some products - are always easier to hate on than others.

I thought you can install games to USB flash drives? In which case the hardware would otherwise be the same.

Right, and I read about that too. Except what's the precedent for everything that's in the code being gospel?

Yeah that I'd definitely agree with.

Yeah, and I mean my non-Display Fusion workaround works fine too, but if you're switching displays outside of Big Picture and using a mouse and keyboard to do it, it largely eliminates most of the use for Big Picture.

Yeah I could see how there's situations where that'd work, since I'm never gaming and using the computer for other purposes simultaneously.

I'll have to check that out, but that it still uses an additional program (Ultramon) it's really still just a workaround to Big Picture's flaws.

That's not a workaround unless you'd always have the screens cloned, as it doesn't work unless all displays are same resolutions/ratios otherwise you're sacrificing resolution on at least one display, right? At least, not in my experience.

But in that case you're using DisplayFusion - not Big Picture - to switch. And that's my point, which is that until they make Big Picture either more stable or more compatible, it's a big hit to it's usability.