@SilverDeth @dj @gray @ins0mniak @lanodan @sun

> The build quality on everything has gone to sh*t.

Absolutely. You see people using still appliances from the 60s, but you almost never see anyone using appliances from the 90s.

> (Half the weight of the SNES was it's baseplate).

Iwata was obsessed with this kind of thing; he wouldn't ship the Wii until you could drop a TV on it. :pressf:

> Some bean-counting pencil-dick in accounting no doubt thought this was brilliant savings in shipping.... and the planned convalescence of the product is a sweet sweet sweet added bonus. (If not a primary consideration).

In order to hurt the resale market, Apple started offering free laser engraving for iPhones, so some companies are clearly willing to spend more money to make it harder.