Missing out on the Front Mission series in its prime will always be one of my great mecha regrets.  I need to try and pick up some of the old games and give them a run, they’ve always sounded like they were exactly my type of game.

I pretty much agree with Luke that the DS4 is the best iteration of the PS controller to date, not counting DualSense as I do not currently have one, despite my best efforts...

I think the thing people need to remember about the DualShock is that it was based on the original non-analog gamepad controller. I feel that they literally just crammed the analog sticks in a place where they were accessible to thumbs but didn’t require them to significantly retool the controller or PCB design. And…

Yeah, I recently had to go through and thoroughly clean out the analog sticks on my DualShock 4. Not a terribly difficult disassembly (left only a few scuffs on the seam of the two controller halves), but annoying, and an issue I’ve never had on Xbox controllers that I’ve had and used for twice as long.

Yeah, I always figured people were putting a bit too much weight into the differences in speed of the different drives, at least for the types of games we have right now: SSD performance in general is good enough that even significant increases in I/O will generally only result in a few seconds, at least for now.

I actually had a PC that started smoking once, a power cable for one of the fans had started melting; when I yanked it out I actually had a faint scar on my hand for some time from it. The smoke was very thin and wispy, not at all like what we see here, but the biggest thing was the smell: I smelled the part burning…

Cata dungeons were especially brutal compared to the soft heroics of Wrath. Blackrock Caverns was almost kinda traumatizing, and ruined PvE content for me for nearly two expansions (revamped Scarlet Monastery also didn’t help, though it wasn’t nearly as bad.)  It wasn’t really the difficulty itself, it was its effects…

For me, Mists was one of my favorite zones during expansion, but I always had trouble coming back to it with alts. The new leveling experience might help fix that, as jumping around the zones so rapidly was a bit annoying. The quest progression felt a bit more linear and cohesive from a narrative perspective than past…

I think there’s an interesting balance point, trying to get quick changes out at launch, where they will be more relevant, vs. some more in depth and potentially desirable changes but would likely push the updates further back, where there impact may be diminished.

I like the overall concept of the control center: I like having an extra layer of UX between gameplay and the home menu, like on Xbox 360. I also really like the aesthetics, though I will miss some of the blue-ness of PS4. Less of a fan of the cards: I think some of the concepts are cool, but not always practical. The…

I bet they will receive some additional treatment at some point (Microsoft recently said it would be bringing some optimizations to it’s exclusive properties) but it probably won’t be launch, and may not be as extensive as, say Gears 5.

Yeah, I feel the same way. I think part of it was they had to design a solution that worked for both the disk and diskless versions and to keep the number of modified components to a minimum. I’m pretty impressed with how they’ve accomplished that: it almost seems like you could just remove the drive of of a disk…

I mean, I think the PS5 still intakes air from the top, so probably not good?

They actually did do that:

Overall, a really interesting video. You really do get the sense at how much thought and care Sony have put into designing and manufacturing this console. Maybe almost a little too much, as that’s a lot of extra plastic and a good deal of complexity in construction. But it was good to get a better sense of the size…

Well, we haven’t seen anything quite like the Hot Chips breakdown of the silicon like Xbox did, but that’s pretty technical and wouldn’t mean anything to most consumers anyway.  I think the main thing is just that there has been almost no physical interaction with these consoles from the wider games media until…

What about shipping full fledged review units to them about a week after?

Not going to lie though, I always get nervous when it comes to bending plastic like that.  but at least you can grip the lips of the sides pretty easily, no need to use tools that may chip the edges.

Personally, I’d take it with a grain of salt. Not to knock the people reporting this, but these are pretty vague statements, and comparing the two consoles in terms of thermal capability is premature when very few, if any, individuals have had extensive time with both systems.

God, I think I still have the VHS of this somewhere at my parents house. I probably watched a hundred times. Definitely hasn’t aged that well, though mostly in just the crude American splicing of multiple films, questionable voice acting, and kind of... awkward music selection (though some bangers in there, for sure.)