I'd rather see they kept the pricing and made a working machine.

1. Loudness is subjective.
2. Some frequencies appear louder to the human ear.
3. Humans are the most sensitive to frequencies in the same area as the human voice.
4. Different people have different characteristics to their ears.
5. An SPL (Sound Pressure Level) meter is never linear in its readings. If you do not compensate for this, your readings will be useless.
6. The characteristics and lay-out of your room will GREATLY influence what frequencies are dominant. Also, placement on a resonant surface (as in: not accoustically dead) will affect the way you percieve sound.
7. An SPL meter doesn't know what your room looks like. You need an anechoic chamber, or your results will be way off (as in: not even close to interesting).

Thank you

So... even Engadget is a victim of tricky marketing =)
You really should mention that HDV only supports a resolution of 1440x1080. The image is squeezed to 4:3 wether you like it or not.

Does the higher resolution really matter? The image is squeezed down to 4:3 (1440x1080) for storage on DV tape anyway. Am I wrong?

I'm in Sweden. Got mine today. Black beauty! I'm in love =)

Actually it's standard 1024 pixels wide. It's not much wider than this blog - and I can fit two of these on my laptop screen =)

The new design goes well with the Apple philosophy: Style without purpose.

Ok, sorry for being an ass. I will stop now.

Zelda in the last game? Don't you mean Link?

... And by the way, I'm in Sweden.

When I asked at my local EB Games store about a week ago, they told me the release was previously set to June 9th, but had recently been pushed forward. He checked his computer, and said "Yup, the release date was just updated. It will arrive on June 23rd".

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In terms of market share, yes. But the point here has nothing to do with the consoles market share, but rather the risk involved with creating something people have never seen before.

The Wiimote will surely introduce a new - and rather steep - learning curve for even the most hardened gamer. Not because of it being hard to use, but because we (experienced gamers) have to 'unlearn' the moves we're used to. Now THAT is what I call taking a risk.

At 31 yrs I'm getting tired of all the Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys of gaming. I want something fresh and more "alternative".

Hail to the big N for acting like the small guy.