They didn’t sell these over here in Sweden. My first thought was Why the hell would anyone pay almost 4000 USD for one of these??. Then I scrolled down and noticed the digital speedometer. Don’t care about the rest. NP.

Two hours sounds surprisingly quick for Skyrim. I mean, consider how far you could walk in two hours in real life. That’s still quite a small geographical area. The world feels so much bigger than that.

So true. I was thinking that as long as you truly buy a car with your heart, you will never feel like having bought the wrong car (even though it might have been a horrible choice from an objective standpoint).

‘GREAT. The one day that the laws of physics stop working is the day I’m running LeMans.’

Absolutely. But then (since we have already established that I don’t care about having the most fantastic graphics ever) I could also buy a console (total cost: $350) and have full support for most current games for maybe 5-7 years.

Exactly. I haven’t got kids, but I was considering building a gaming rig to run Asetto Corsa with an Oculus Rift and my G27 steering wheel setup. It would be an incredibly realistic and immersive racing sim setup, but when I did the maths I realized that I’d be able to get started doing real racing for not much more…

It’s an ofted repeated fact, but wine tasting is a lot more nuanced than that. Yes, there are cases where wine experts have been fooled to feel differences that weren’t there, but there are other cases (like competitive wine tasting) where people are successfully pinpointing exactly where the wine is from and what…

I agree, if you have your mind set on playing on a PC. But if graphics isn’t your priority, you can buy a console for $350 and keep playing newly released games for the next 5-6 years at least.

Yup, I was thinking along a similar line, although from the other perspective. As someone who doesn’t care about graphics (I’m currently using an ultrabook with integrated GPU as my only computer), if I ever were to spend more than $300 on the graphics card alone I would just buy myself a console instead.

Or you could just enjoy the same games with slightly lower settings and save yourself $100?

Post-apocalyptic rallycross, with Mad Max-style vehicles on old broken tarmac!

Good point. I think that Angry Birds have something like 100 million invidual users (though many more downloads, due to sequels), and if Nintendo were to release a game roughly as awesome as Mario Kart 8 for mobile platforms (as a free or very cheap download) then they could possibly top that.

Ah, my bad. But it’s still an absolutely insanely optimistic number, even if just for the Nintendo accounts. I know maybe two or three people who own any sort of Wii console (regular or U), which fits quite well with my calculation above (wii ownership would be about 1 in 100 of the widest possible description of the…

Agreed. I mean, just to get some sort of feeling for the size of the number: If we assume that the poorest 50% on this planet won’t even consider it, there are 3 billion people left. Now let’s assume that about 1/3rd of these are completely out of Nintendo’s demographics (senior citizens who don’t even own a computer…

I know, in my opinion they could have cleaned it up so much just by making the kidney grille a little bit less absurdly proportioned. Yes, it was a hommage to the classic CSL, which had a very tall grille, but inserting single design cues onto a completely different car doesn’t always work very well.

Magic.

I agree with you, but I’d argue that the abonimation presented by BMW earlier this year is the car equivalent to these planes.

Well, an aerodynamicist he aint.

Couldn’t they just drop the Miis sometime soon? It’s an uninspired design, and I think using them to build some sort of brand image only cements the Wii’s reputation as a low-power machine. Such a turnoff when you play an otherwise ok-looking game like MarioKart and see those bastards.

Wait, you called the Lincoln abonimation pretty, and say that this is not traditionally beautiful??