They could certainly pay more attention to the home market (or anywhere outside of Japan, really), but as far as Konami’s rhythm games are concerned, they seem to be doing fine inside Japanese arcades.

I agree with the visuals, they really don’t compare to the more story oriented videos that all of the previous games used.

I suppose that’d be great if it were actually cheaper, but the 3DS didn’t cost more in countries that previously included it with its charger than in countries that didn’t, and there’s little to suggest they made the New 3DS cheaper by not including it.

I suspect most users don’t use their phones for A/V Out, as nice as the ability to do so is. There’s also the chip that primarily serves to make it harder to produce cheap Lightning cable, which doesn’t really benefit anything other than Apple’s bottom line.

The PSP and Vita have never done spectacularly in the West, and I think Sony started doing what a lot of other Japanese companies have done lately, ignoring the West in favor of the home market. And sadly, the Vita TV never really took off in Japan (where the handheld sold comparatively well to begin with.)

The PSP and Vita have never done spectacularly in the West, and I think Sony started doing what a lot of other…

It IS $100 cheaper than retail on a newer model. As someone that owns one of both, I can say that while I prefer the lighter and more efficient newer models, the older model is still perfectly usable. And if it helps offset the cost of those damn memory cards, it can’t hurt.

It IS $100 cheaper than retail on a newer model. As someone that owns one of both, I can say that while I prefer the…

Most phones use micro-USB here too. It’s really mostly Apple that’s held out. And Nintendo, I guess.

Personally it just seems to be a story about how much easier things would be if proprietary charging formats weren’t a thing.

I don’t know what you mean by decent, but mid-range gaming laptops (x60 series video cards, i7 processors, decent amounts of RAM) start around $1000. $1000 would stretch even further on desktop, minus some of the accessories you’d have to buy for a console anyway, like the display (I’ve hooked up every HDMI console…

I’m pretty sure you mean UWP. And it started with Windows 8. It has no effect on your existing Win32 apps. If your application isn’t a UWP app, you don’t really need to worry about it.

That’s a Lenovo, by the way.

You can get entry level Windows laptops for less than $200. The minimum cost of entry for a Mac Laptop is $899, on a line that hasn’t seen an update in awhile and might be getting replaced by the smaller form factor $1300 MacBook.

What makes you assume the Chromebook needs to be replaced every year? $200 Windows laptops aren’t even that poor.

The hard part is not having data while here. Most local plans are two year contracts so I haven’t bothered. Free wifi isn’t unheard of but more sporadic than a lot of places in the US. 7-11s are thankfully everywhere though and they typically have solid wifi.

I usually just search for the destination name rather than looking up the address. I’ve been living in Nagoya for about a year now and navigating it almost exclusively via Google Maps. Worked for Tokyo and Kyoto too.

I can’t speak for more rural areas, but having been here nearly a year studying in Nagoya, larger cities haven’t been too hard to navigate via Google Maps. Other than my apartment address I haven’t really bothered with them at all.

It’s a nice change of pace from the “let me tell you how little I care about this game I’ve bothered to comment about” sort, I suppose.

In ten years will people look back on the new Doom as some highmark in FPS history? I have a feeling that despite how good a game it is, it’s never going to manage to outdo the high watermark the original set (in large part because of how much bigger gaming is.)

In context, “graduate” sounds needlessly pretentious. Why do you need to graduate from Calvin and Hobbes?

If you think worrying about social issues in video games means fretting about women being adventurers, you’re mistaken.