TheMightyEthan

Yeah, I was referencing TC.

Most days I don't get farther than 0.7 km from my house.

It's pretty accurate for me. It's got me off by about half a block in a couple of places, but that's the worst. I imagine anything like that is probably due to it not having GPS and relying on the cell signal to approximate your location.

It's not the accent, it's the way her inflection rises at the end of each phrase. That's what uptalk is.

I prefer PS4 to Xbone...

I'm sure the Xbone version will be pretty, but design-wise will be held back by the 360 version. Though maybe not, because Crystal Dynamics is developing on Xbone and a separate studio is porting to 360, so maybe it will just be a neutered version like Borderlands on Vita.

Confirmed by Phil Spencer that it's a timed exclusive. Also that it's coming to 360, which is really fuckin weird for a game releasing Fall 2015. Seems like that will make it hold up even less against its competitors.

There's a demo?

Yeah, they announced when they first took it out of the box that they're going to start selling Kinect separately, but with that method it will never see the adoption rates or software support it needs to really be a success.

As long as it's predictable that kind of thing doesn't bother me, but if it's random then of dear lord that's awful.

They don't want to throw good money after bad, especially since Mattrick's gone; Kinect was his baby. They were losing the war bad, and a big part of it was the difference in price between the two consoles. They had two options: 1) reduce price to $400 but keep Kinect, taking a much larger loss on each box, or 2) reduce price to $400 and ditch Kinect, meaning they won't recoup their investment in it. They decided overall they were likely to make more money by ditching Kinect, and I think they were probably right.

Playstation 4 has passed 10 million consoles sold. It's obviously a failure, and there's no way it can possibly reach the bare minimum 12 million it needs by the end of the year to avoid being completely abandoned forever.

The only Tales of game I've ever been able to get into was Destiny, but man I loved it.

Control was the only game mode in the Beta.

My parents' bluray player certainly has a Youtube app.

Some more Halo 2 Anniversary comparisons:

Software v2.0 coming this fall adds direct Youtube uploading and the ability to have a friend remotely take over your game. Yay! http://blog.us.playstation.com/2014/08/12/upcoming-ps4-system-update-to-v2-00-to-add-share-play-youtube-and-more-to-come/

I thought it was obvious from the first time you meet her that Sarah has some kind of mental disability...

The thing you would call suspenders we would call a garter belt.

Meh, it's a for-profit thing.

Geoff Keighley's been investigating, and says: So yeah, pretty much confirmed as a timed exclusive. Wouldn't surprise me if it doesn't even wait for holiday 2016, maybe just March or something.

Yeah, I'm not arguing it's not just a timed exclusive, I'm sure it is, cause it would be insane otherwise. All I was trying to say is that a lot of people were saying "it's probably just console exclusive and will still launch at the same time on PC", but the way they didn't acknowledge PC for TR but did for Ori to me implies the timed exclusivity applies to all other platforms, PC included.

Well they just advertised Ori and the Blind Forest as "Exclusive to Xbox and PC, Coming This Holiday" so it's fair to assume that the TR announcement mentioning only Xbox means it's not coming to PC, at least in 2015 (again with that ambiguous language).

Yeah, the wording was ambiguous, it could just mean it's exclusively releasing in 2015 on Xbox, for other platforms later. It doesn't actually matter to me, since I have an Xbone, it just seems really weird.

Apparently Rise of the Tomb Raider is an Xbone exclusive. What the actual fuck? *Edit* - Actually it's an "Xbox" exclusive, so I guess it could be on 360 too, but Holiday 2015 seems kinda late for a cross-gen game.