It has to eat into sales.  Might help certain games where people are on the fence, might help games that score low 8s or high 7s...where its a real subjective experience....but anything first party.  Presumably the bulk of your sales come from franchise fans and console loyalists (at least the initial core)...these…

You sound like you are in denial. It is Microsoft making the comments not CMA. CMA only has access to data provided by Microsoft...

I suspect that is the exact thing going on. If your game can be completed within a month (or however long it is on the pass) and it’s released too close to launch you are cannibalizing your sales. 

I’ve still got my expansion pack, but where are you supposed to jam it in on the switch?

Best first party controller on the market

I’m not sure I’d classify battery life good enough to last through a vast majority of reasonable play sessions as “poor” but hey, whatever, other controllers last longer so I’m sure that nullifies any argument to the contrary.

Nah, other than the battery life they are great.  I wish the XBox controllers had some of the same features.

xbox controllers are weird because if you use alkaline batteries they don’t drain but certain battery packs will which is strange (I’m guessing it’s something to do with the packs having their own power management which keeps a trickle on and the controller is accidentally siphoning it?)

Just out of curiosity, what are we calling poor battery life these days? I’ve had a Ps5 since launch window and I’ve never even thought about my battery, and that was during some pandemic-era gaming sessions too! True, I am in the habit of charging it between every play session (sprung for the dock) but I wasn’t aware…

Someone coming out of a 20 year coma looking at people waiting to board a plane with their “carry-ons” would assume airlines didn’t even check luggage anymore.

I don’t think it gets them around having a certain percentage of the glass area swept by the wipers, though, which is going to look ridiculous. When I’ve brought this up with Tesla fans they’ve said stuff like “just use air blowers” or “you don’t need wipers if you use Rain-X,” neither of which will fly with highway…

How many people do you think abide by the checked bag rule, either on purpose or inadvertently. Especially for gate checked bags.

I have replaced internal batteries in our family’s various laptops at least five times. 

Um, yes you can. I did exactly that actually a couple weeks ago for my 7 year old HP laptop with an internal battery, it’s like 9 screws and the bottom comes off no problem. They sell unbranded batteries for just about everything on Amazon or Ebay including laptops and iPhones, and a lot even say “Exact replacement”…

This honestly does scare me a little. Just how many shoddy battery packs are people buying and bringing on vacation? I bet you most people flying today have at least 5 items using Li-Ion batteries, some of which are no name junk from Amazon. I love how they just can’t be in checked bags, like THEY STILL POSE A THREAT…

The wipers + windshield dimensions + profile are much, much, much bigger (unsolved) design problem than people realize.

It probably won’t need to be DOT-approved (pretty sure you meant NHTSA but that’s just me being pedantic).  

I remain baffled they haven’t smartened up and cancelled the thing.  It makes no sense.  It won’t sell.  If they turned that effort into a proper 3-row SUV, it would sell like hot cakes.

Stainless steel: all of the weight of regular steel, with the unforgiving stiffness of aluminum.

Stainless Steel only worked on the DMC-12 because the panels were not structural in any way. The doors were stronger for collisions but every panel bolted onto the fiberglass body tub.

another fun thing with stainless is that stuff keeps a razor sharp edge and you have to grind it down. Delorean inner door skins are…