What you say is 100% true, yet (standard) menus are still vastly easier to navigate with a directional pad than with an analog stick. The D pad is more responsive (no dead zone like an analog has) and its unambiguous (left means left, not left and every so slightly up means maybe left, maybe up, maybe left and up?)

Since when does the price get a pass just because it has expensive tech in it? Sony found out quite quickly with the PS3 that thats not true, not true at all.

This sounds good saying it, but is a terrible, terrible idea in practice (and nobody does this).

Sony did it right. They didn’t charge for their first iteration of their online service, and when they did start charging for it, it included monthly free games and extra discounts.

Nintendo has not been online for two generations. They have had a minimal, barely functioning, ad-hoc online service for select games (and an online store), sure. But that hardly qualifies as an online service.

These were mostly ad-hoc or game specific online. There has never really been a “Nintendo Online”

Its all about history. Consumers buy products and place their faith in products based on the previous product. If your last product was terrible (so much so that you ended its life so early!), you have to really, really go out of your way to convince people that your new product is not going to be a repeat of…

So much this. Sony has been pushing the “Console Quality Portable Handheld” for over a decade with the Vita and PSP. No one cared. (Well, I cared, but the rest of the market seemed to not). Even the idea that you could play your PS4 games on the go with remote-play anywhere (with a decent internet connection),…

The reason why 12 GB isnt enough free space for a 12 GB download is that it has to download the file (which tales 12 GB of space) and using that file, extract/install it into a separate location (which uses another 12 GB or more) and then it deletes the installation download. It needs at least double the space and…

To be clear, I am not trying to tell you that your opinion is wrong, I am trying to tell you that the “commonly known fact” is not a fact at all, just opinion. It has not been proven one way or another, so your opinion that KB/M is better is just as correct as my opinion that a Controller is better. Thankfully…

Still trying as in I haven’t visited Kotaku really since then and just saw my notifications, and decided to reply, sure. No one proved me wrong in November, its a nice revisionists history you have there if you think any such thing happened (show me that post if you believe it happened). Someone agreeing with you,…

I saw one user post one article about one opinion of one company on two games. That hardly constitutes proof of any kind. If you think Googling and finding some blog that agrees with you, means you are right, you have a lot to learn.

Every game I have played ties both of these concepts together under the title of Aim Assist. Its nice that you try and grasp at any tiny detail (Oh he doesn’t know the exact technical difference between the two, that must mean everything he ever says about anything related to it is wrong by default!) to discount my…

Not a single person that has ever made that claim has ever had any proof to back it up. You cannot just make an arbitrary claim that you think is correct, “just because” and then troll anyone that disagrees with your opinion. Just because someone disagrees with your opinion, doesn’t mean that they think absurd…

You sure showed me. With one unsubstantiated report that has nothing to back it up other than the unscientific conclusions of a small group with a couple games.

The majority consensus was that for hundreds of years.

Having gamed on PC and Console since PC’s were text only, and consoles were Atari/NES, I can tell you with certainty that its not collective empirical observation, its a herd belief with nothing to back it up. No different (though less important) than say, millions believing the Earth is flat. Not from any kind of…

You seem to think that Aim Assist is a good thing, it actually makes the game much, much, harder. I don’t understand why developers include this, and why they don’t often have the option to disable it.

I think you miss my point entirely. I am/was originally responding to the claims otherwise. If a person makes a claim (like Keyboard and Mouse trumps Controller) the burden of proof is on the person making the claim. And so far, in the couple of decades I have had this argument online, not a single person has…

Mentioning something that may or may not have happened, and may or may not have had the results you think, isn’t proof. You thinking that a conclusion was formed because of some event that may or may not have occurred a single time, is also not proof. Proof is results gathered from multiple independent resources…