deKay

"[ste parker]" <imaginey@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 30/12/2011 23:44, deKay wrote:
>> On Fri, 30 Dec 2011, [ste parker] wrote:
>>
>>> Is this comparing it to the "old" DS though? Which was a complete
>>> abomination,
>>
>> But was it?
>
> Yes, it was. Come on, it looked absolutely fucking terrible and you know it.

Honestly? I never thought it looked bad at all. Sure, it does now compared
to the Lite and DSi, but at the time? No.


> As I said, I'm not interested in irrelevant, unfair comparisons. The Lite
> is obviously the biggest seller, and was more desirable than the original.

But it was also around in the shops for much longer 5 years vs 1 year), so
was bound to sell more

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[ste parker]

On 31/12/2011 10:28, deKay wrote:
> "[ste parker]"<imaginey@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> On 30/12/2011 23:44, deKay wrote:
>>> On Fri, 30 Dec 2011, [ste parker] wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is this comparing it to the "old" DS though? Which was a complete
>>>> abomination,
>>>
>>> But was it?
>>
>> Yes, it was. Come on, it looked absolutely fucking terrible and you know it.
>
> Honestly? I never thought it looked bad at all. Sure, it does now compared
> to the Lite and DSi, but at the time? No.
>

Yes, it looked crap even before the advent of replacements. Stop lying
to yourself, even if you didn't think that nigh on everyone else did.

>
>> As I said, I'm not interested in irrelevant, unfair comparisons. The Lite
>> is obviously the biggest seller, and was more desirable than the original.
>
> But it was also around in the shops for much longer 5 years vs 1 year), so
> was bound to sell more
>

Why snip the next sentence when I covered that? As I said "But, again,
that'd wouldn't be a fair comparison either." Which, to be fair, is a
bit fucked in the grammar stakes.

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John Dow

[ste parker] the Monkey was never naughty:
>
> Yes, it looked crap even before the advent of replacements. Stop lying
> to yourself, even if you didn't think that nigh on everyone else did.

<mumbles> I actually quite like the look of the phat. It had a nice angular
Battlestar Galactica thing going on.

I'll get my coat.

J

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deKay

John Dow <jmd@nelefa.org.invalid> wrote:
> [ste parker] the Monkey was never naughty:
>>
>> Yes, it looked crap even before the advent of replacements. Stop lying
>> to yourself, even if you didn't think that nigh on everyone else did.
>
> <mumbles> I actually quite like the look of the phat. It had a nice angular
> Battlestar Galactica thing going on.
>
> I'll get my coat.
>
> J

You also have to remember how much better than the "final prototype" it
looked.

That *was* grim.


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