Nintendo Revolutions Controller, Lets check it out.. Options

[EddieV]

The new Nintendo Revolution's Controller looks really interesting. Nintendo said they want to change the way we play video games. I think out of the three system, Nintendo to me looks the most promising. The X-Box 360 only has a few new features and slightly better graphics. But basically everything is the same. Here's a link to the Nintendo Revolution's new controller.

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3143782

[*mipadi*]

Tell me, have you personally used the controller? If no, then it's not possible to make an effective statement about its comfort for awkwardness in either direction. Anything would just be speculation--which is fine, but if you speculate about something such as comfort, don't say that others can't spectulate, too.

[ThunderEvermore]

Tell me, have you personally used the controller? If no, then it's not possibly to make a statement about its comfort for awkwardness in either direction.

Youre not even reading, at all. Seriously, take a look at the words.

I said one thing about the confort in either direction, and that was that I doubted itd be uncomfortable, because Nintendo makes very comfortable controllers. but that was not the main aspect of the argument. The whole thing was about how he cant say anytyhing because hes never touched it.

I NEVER said that the controller was comfortable.

He said it wasnt.

Revised edition

Tell me, have you personally used the controller? If no, then it's not possible to make an effective statement about its comfort for awkwardness in either direction. Anything would just be speculation--which is fine, but if you speculate about something such as comfort, don't say that others can't spectulate, too.

He didnt speculate, he prophesized, he stated supposed fact. He made a statement, not an opinion.

[*mipadi*]

He didnt speculate, he prophesized, he stated supposed fact. He made a statement, not an opinion.

Negative. Clearly it's his opinion, as he not has not used it himself yet. Just because it is not phrased as "I think that..." does not mean it is a fact, not an opinion.

A lesson about expressing opinions: it is much better to express them solidly ("The controller is uncomfortable") rather than weakly ("I think that the controller is uncomfortable"). In a discussion such as this, it is clear that, unless shown to be a fact ("I have used the Revolution controller, and it is uncomfortable"), the statement is speculation and an opinion based on speculation. Furthermore, since comfort is subjective, any statement regarding comfort is an opinion.