And there it is, I imagine that the shortage is still very much in swing right now even if production has increased in the last few months: https://www.wsj.com/articles/cant-find-a-playstation-4-blame-it-on-a-part-barely-bigger-than-a-speck-1530282882

Oh, I had no idea there was a parts shortage. That explains a lot then!

Yeah, I am in a big city so there is that to consider. 

Dude! I’m glad you found a 500 mil edition! They really do look great—even if they do show fingerprints and smudges like crazy—and I would love to own one but I am just not enough of a die hard fan to go out of my way to buy one.

Yeah, I wasn’t looking for anything special. Just a regular old PS4 Pro and I could not find any here in Chicago proper or in the surrounding suburbs.

I see where you’re coming from but from my perspective it would seem that the Pro is the PlayStation system and the non-Pro is the budget or entry-level system. So my assumption comes from there, that when there is a product line and a more powerful version of that line is released, it then becomes the defacto…

This is off-topic but I’m feeling trolled by Sony’s apparent artificial scarcity affecting the PS4 Pro right now—contrasted against their aggressive marketing telling me to just go out and buy one. I didn’t expect to be able to find the 500 million edition or the Spider-Man edition by just walking into a store but I…

This is easily still 5 to 10 years off and that’s being conservative. I’d say a more realistic timeline is 10 to 20 years.

I appreciate your response but I don’t necessarily agree with most of it. There’s a lot to unpack and I may not express my thoughts and ideas on your response as succinctly as they deserve, so please bear with me.

Good on them for being agents of change even if their methodology is flawed.

Sounds like she’s gunning for the top of the adult contemporary charts with this one.

Piling on the content in short order is absolutely a sound strategy in order to stay competitive with the increasingly crowded genre. Eventually they will revisit Erangel and I think that’ll be a significant milestone for the game.

I guess I never looked at Street Fighter and thought that the streets needed to be more real, so real that they were actual streets.

I’d to see them develop Erangel further. There’s untapped potential there having been less hand-crafted than Miramar. And I think players would appreciate a refreshed Erangel that’s ultimately the same island but re-tooled to play to the game’s more recent developments.

A question for the ages.

Haven’t watched the game trailer yet but I hope it involves all of the things you mentioned.

I strongly recommend Dead Leaves by Production I.G., directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi, in 2004.

I agree that 24 FPS movies and 30 FPS content that gets interpolated to 60 FPS looks like trash. And the TV manufacturers really need to quit it with this on-by-default bullshit.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Lunar Colony has surprisingly great guitar work and a synth lead that I can easily listen to over and over again.

I bought one of these the last time they were on sale for $130 and it was absolutely worth it, even though there are plenty of other, cheaper, options on the market.

I bought one of these the last time they were on sale for $130 and it was absolutely worth it, even though there are…