I would have gone USB-C for both, truth be told. It’s the connector for the future.

Well, sure, everything sells better when you jack the specs up to “awesome” and then sell it for cheap. Closest thing to what you describe is a Dell Alienware 15R3, which is about $1200 from the outlet with the described config.

Eurogamer has confirmed that it’s not doing straight HDMI over USB-C. They apparently did what you describe as harder and horrible - weird proprietary protocol. This actually is slightly more sensible if you assume future docks will provide additional hardware capabilities, but for now, yeah, it’s stupid. No word yet…

I regularly warn kids away from it. Long hours for meh money. The whole industry is a cautionary tale of how exempt status for employees can be horribly abused. 

I’m not really weighing in on the severity or frequency of the issue, I’m just pointing out that it’s an issue QC should legitimately be responsible for catching. (Or, for all I know, Nintendo QC knew it was an issue and decided that it was cheaper to eat the returns until the next controller revision.)

I suspect you’ll see a TV-out mini-dock that takes the same approach.

I am a software project manager by trade, and you have QA and QC happening continuously under any software development lifecycle model. So we are certainly in agreement. The thing is, I regard putting the port on the bottom as a _requirements validation failure_ (“built the wrong product”). I think that this is…

That’s not a traditional QA function. Put this in a game context: it’s like a game that’s no fun that passes QA testing - QA makes sure there are no bugs, it’s just that the game still sucks as a game.

I’m with you. Give me a couple hardware revisions, Netflix/Amazon/Hulu, and a price cut, and maybe I’ll be in the market for something like this. I am absolutely a sucker for portables, but they need to work right first.

The problem is, it seems to have a lot of issues as both a home console and as a portable. I don’t regard the storage problem as a huge deal, but neither does the reviewer. He’s even relatively forgiving of the controller. It’s just that there are so many little problems that they add up to a flawed…

Eh, QC just makes sure the port works. This is a design problem, not a QA/QC problem.

IMHO, Big N made a mistake in how they marketed this thing. If they had the big streaming services and tried to sell it to the parents of kids < 15 crowd as a family-friendly replacement for their entertainment tablet, it would have been moderately compelling. As it is... pretty meh, and this review didn’t do anything…

HDMI over USB-C doesn’t work with all USB-C ports... it requires support for that feature in hardware, and there’s no indication the Switch has it thus far.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but it’s not like Europe and/or the rest of the world just skated through the GD and GR with nary a care in the world because they were a bit more socialist. They suffered pretty hard, too.

It definitely reveals a lack of thought on Big N’s part in not addressing that scenario. The Vita and PSTV had the same problem when Sony didn’t at least create a DS4-touchpad workaround to games that use the Vita’s touchscreen.

No way that it doesn’t do a signature check on the updates before installing them.

You can’t even hunt DEER in most states with 5.56x45. That’s not to say you couldn’t kill deer with 5.56x45, but it’s generally considered inadequate to the task, even with hunting rounds. Personally, I would want to go in with 458 SOCOM or 500 Beowulf...

Re-read the article. “The teams were now Fascists and Progressives”. I know this is par for course for the former Gawker sites, but it really reveals to you what a bubble some people live in - of the friends they were going to invite over, none of them seemed to have taken offense to the notion that all…

Standard AR-15s are considered insufficient for hog-hunting. You need to bump it up to something semi-auto in .308, and at that point, you’re talking about relatively expensive rifles (> $1000).

I dunno, $240B / 45M is like $5.3k each. While I’m sure that would be some helpful money for those families, I’m not sure it’s a game changer.