Wow, go Tim Ferris. That book is nearly £30 in the shops.

Seems to me the Wii U is at a crossroads. After a modest launch it feels like it's lost momentum. Its sales are reasonable, but not great given its entry point and lack of competition. Tweaking the colour probably costs next to nothing in manufacturing terms and may attract a few more users who are sitting on the…

If they're cheap enough, run emulators well and catch the indie devs' imaginations, they'll get a small but loyal customer base. Its best not to think of it in terms of Xbox or Sony, they wont compare with those.

Its legacy stuff. People are still attached to their cable and satellite TV subscriptions.

To be honest there are many ways to access content these days and we dont each need all those means. So if you dont need, you dont need.

Agreed. I think they've tried to move away from the teenager's toy look of the 360 to something that would sit in your front room as comfortably as a DVD player or a similar set-top box.

Totally agree - Cubase is too complicated with way too many legacy features (or at least that was the case 2 years ago when I finally stopped using it after 10 years).

The cable throughput is just a legacy system to encourage people to start using the box as a first point of call when entering the living room. Both Sony and MS are assuming that a good percentage of people who play games will cut the cable over the next 5 to 10 years (which is the potential lifecycle of this machine)…

AAA publishers hate the second hand games market, they get no money from it. If Sony makes the second hand games market too appealing they wont get publishers going. 20M machines they may have, but if that only equates to 5M first hand sales, whats the difference?

It was handled badly we all agree, but there's a difference between the reveal being crap and the machine being crap.

Thats interesting I didn't know DK had been pulled.

In fairness, the virtual console and remakes on Xbox live show that what a few years ago we thought of as dead IP actually still has a market.

I see. So how many are we talking about?

Sorry I don't understand.

Dont come with all that 'true gamer' nonsense, just because you personally disagree with some bits of it.

While I like what they're doing with the Ouya (since I love android), the PS4, XBox and Wii-U are all going to clock up incomparable numbers in terms of sales and profits.

I think its about habit. When (if) it becomes habit to talk to your phone you might find it easier to do the same on laptop.

I think in fairness, if I were MS, what possible incentive would I have to focus on Japan? Other than reverence that us western gamers (assuming you, reader, are in the west) have for the country. After all sales in Japan of the 360 were about 1.5M out around 80M total sales (tho numbers vary). That's already a tank.…

Look - the response to the Wii U was negative, the response to the Sony PS4 was largely "meh" and now the Xbox is getting drilled too. Are we all going to get Ouya's instead?

I'm not so sure. I think MS' strategy is have your Xbox as a streaming content device, with "part-streaming" on games and "mostly-streaming" on music and films. That suits not only the "average" customer (whoever that its) but it also reflects the way that all the big content providers are doing. From Apple to Amazon,…