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Actually, if you do a straight conversion, you will end up with about $818 USD for the bundle. Even if you take the individual prices of the PS4 (£349) and the Vita (£140) and convert them, you will end up with $571 and $229 (respectively). Add these two numbers together and guess what you get: $800 USD, which still…

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Case-only boxes are found on eBay all the time. In fact, I have purchased some myself. Some collectors just want a case/box to add to their collection. If eBay prohibits these sales, they are not trying hard enough. I mean, I think that almost every game and console has an equivalent sale for just the box.

Games are pushing for better graphics and more immersion. However, all of that goes down the drain when your eyes are being dragged to the corner of the screen in order to look at a map. What's the point of having a game run at 1080p when you are looking down at the corner?

As a person who repairs consoles, I can honestly say that I have seen some pretty infested consoles. The fact that YOU didn't see anything by the time your console came back doesn't mean that your console was clean. Often, Sony only has to find a few bugs in there before they decide to pass on it. This is especially…

I'm a professional Brawl player, and yes, I do take Brawl a little seriously.

While this is true, the switch to lead-free solder in electronics happens several years ago. It didn't start with the last gaming generation. Also, the problem with lead-free is not just that it would melt, but also because it cannot stand the constant expansion/contraction caused by the 360 (or the PS3 for that…

Well, this is kinda the reason why I don't get new consoles right away. I've also spent plenty of time repairing game consoles and I have learned that for all of the good things that Sony and Microsoft do right, they also do a lot of things wrong. I wouldn't be surprised if my former boss calls me in saying that he…

I don't know about the PS4, but in the PS3, there was a temperature sensor located in the that CPU the monitored how hot the chips got (I expect the PS4 to have the same thing; I just don't know where it is). When the temperature exceeded a certain amount, the system would throw an error message. If that temperature…

The only other thing that would have caused that 2-light RROD is bad thermal compound, which Microsoft is never going to admit to anyone's face. They go by the error and the error alone and since the 2-light RROD is a very generic overheating error, Microsoft wasn't going to try to fix it. The thermal compound that…

Well, to be fair, overheating can be caused by lots of things (from the environment to the condition of the system itself). Its simpler to warn the user of the issue first before shutting down completely. The PS4 will still shut down if it is overheating, but it will warn you first. If you don't turn it off and the…

That argument wasn't a red herring; its a valid, non-fallacious point. I mean, I have a Vita and a pretty decent router, so I think the Remote Play would work pretty well for me. I also have a WiiU and can honestly say that if I walk into the next room, I start to have connection issues.

If there are connection issues overall, then it is an issue with the network. However, connecting the PS4 to the network via an Ethernet cable should alleviate some issues since the PS4 is streaming content to your Vita through the network and over WiFi. Of course, if you don't have a fast connection to begin with or…

The problem with the PS3 was not just the Cell+GPU combo, but the design of the console itself. You see, the PS3 has an internal power supply and the power supplies of the launch PS3s could get really hot, to the point that they could easily burn skin (I have figured this out the hard way after testing). Launch PS3s…

Well, the reason why Microsoft didn't cover the 2-light RROD is because that is usually caused by environmental conditions. The error usually means "overheating" but in the sense that the console is getting hot because of some environmental reason (e.g. dust, cramped spaces, etc), not because of the console itself.…

Actually, the button trick only works out of luck. It doesn't fix anything; it only prolongs the issue. You see, when the PS3 initially senses that something is wrong, it will throw the YLOD error and prevent you from turning it on as a safety precaution. If you can bypass this with the button trick, then your PS3 is…

BD Regions are locked on a PS4 based on what country the system is sold in. The location of your PSN account does not affect this since it is hardware based. For example, a North American PS4 has BD Region 1. This region will not change no matter what you do.

Funny thing, actually. Since Gen V, the Pokemon "cries" (as they are called) of existing Pokemon have been tweaked a bit so that they don't sound as mechanical, while some of the new Pokemon got more natural sounding cries (e.g. Stoutland literally sounds like a dog).

I'm pretty sure that is what is happening here. I used to repair game consoles for a living and I saw the same thing happen immediately after COD: Black Ops II came out. There was an increase in repairs for the older, fat PS3s. People thought that Black Ops had given their console the YLOD and killed it. After a few…