Mr Persson concedes that perhaps the Nice method is not terribly efficient but it has other virtues, he maintains.

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Rather, it's workable, and should you have an Oculus dev kit (they're shipping out right now), it's not terribly hard to make the game play nice with the headset.

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"He turned out to be so nice and so it wasn't terribly useful, " he says, laughing.

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The Obama team came prepared with a nice spin on the explanation for this terribly myopic decision.

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The port layout seems reasonable, the LED-backlit screen bright and not-too-terribly-glossy, and the brushed metal finish on the back is surely a nice touch.

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