Gamasutra said:

What does that mean? To get an opportunity to publish a digital game on an Xbox platform, you must publish retail titles. I had thought that this was one-to-one -- meaning for each retail title a publisher releases, it can also release one Xbox Live game. But I recently spoke to someone who worked at a publisher with a two-to-one ratio. "Two digital games for each retail release?" I asked. Nope. It worked the other way around: Two retail games released meant the publisher got one digital download slot. And someone from another publisher told me that to even be allowed to publish games on Xbox 360 in the first place, the company had to slate three retail games up front.

Yeah, I don't get caught up in rumors and marketing BS. Show me the final product, and I'll judge that for myself.

Shinen on Wii U development:

"The Wii U GPU is several generations ahead of the current gen. It allows many things that were not possible on consoles before. If you develop for Wii U you have to take advantage of these possibilities, otherwise your performance is of course limited. Also your engine layout needs to be different. You need to take advantage of the large shared memory of the Wii U, the huge and very fast EDRAM section and the big CPU caches in the cores. Especially the workings of the CPU caches are very important to master. Otherwise you can lose a magnitude of power for cache relevant parts of your code. In the end the Wii U specs fit perfectly together and make a very efficient console when used right.”

CPU cache discussions are kinda difficult for me to understand properly. I hear cache stores frequently used data but the amount of cache sounds tiny to me. Apparently the U CPU is a memory intensified design with a relatively small logic portion. One of the cores is more powerful than the other too.

I gave up gaming six weeks go, and I'm still not back at it.

I'm gaming quite a bit but can't bring myself to play FEmblem 3DS, kinda worried about getting into something I can't finish. Played more Arkham City instead, Just destroyed the jammers, back in the museum, again. Found a cheat of sorts, glide kick a fool, wait for his armed backup, drop a smoke pellet and beat them up in the fog. They rarely manage to hit you. BTW, 360 is SO noisy it's actually annoying, I have to use headphones or put up subtitles. Is the slim quiet?

TV watching achievements sounds like a bad fucking joke, seriously.

Imagine watching The Walking Dead and suddenly you hear BING! Achievement unlocked....you just watched episode 24! I can't even put into words how retarded this is.

gamingeek said:

What about the size difference?

A few inches less in girth and length. But it makes up for it in longevity.

Ravenprose said:

Slim is smaller than the original 360.

Ravenprose said:

I tried to post a comparison pic of the slim to the original 360 from another site. I can see it just fine, but I guess you guys can't.

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/screenshots/original/2010/07/Xbox-360-S-Picture-13.jpg

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