News Tagged: disappointment

I have an idea! Let's make a console with a controller that is its own console unto itself, and not offer any of the features that a conventional video game console has. We'll make up some gibberish name that is a deliberate misspelling of a pronoun. We'll call it the Ussssss with six S's for a sextuple dose of suck...

The 3DS isn't selling as well as expected. The first week sales were great, and then the second week sales fell off. Nintendo's market research shows that this isn't because people don't want the 3DS, they do, but there is an overwhelming feeling that now is not the time to purchase and adopt the device...

Pok'mon Black and White are supposed to have additional multiplayer features launching on March 30th, like a website that offers the Dreamlands area (kind of an MMO way to play Pok'mon) and a Global Battle Union, which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like complete with a complicated global ranking system...

The Dead Space movie still doesn't have a complete script, but don't worry, this is being taken care of by cinematic mastermind director D.J. Caruso, who made the films, Disturbia, Eagle Eye, and I Am Number Four among others, those works of genius that everyone lists as their favorite movies...

The folks over at Ars Technica have gotten to spend some time with the 3DS, and have announced that the system's battery life is 3-5 hours under the best possible conditions. No 3D, no sound, no wireless, and the battery still dies before you know it (this is playing 3DS games mind, and there is an assumed, but as of yet untested hypothesis that original DS games would consume less power)...