There's a balance to be had with managing any change process. Too much equals pain. But too little equals no pressure to change. I think both have got it wrong, though people clearly prefer Sony comfort to MS pain. Strategically though, neither is preferable. You need to make change happen, but you have to take people…

Really glad to hear this. This it the stuff that interests me personally.

Unlike many gamers, this doesn't bother me. Why? Simple fact is that I probably haven'complemented even half of the games ive bought, maybe just a third. Because I invariably I only complete the really good ones. Long mediocre titles just get left on the shelf after a few weekends. So thats maybe a quarter of the…

Dark Souls was truly amazing. However there are a few things I'd like to see.

You had me at "Quake Engine"

I love libraries, and indeed come from a family of librarians.

I'm with you - choosing an alternative is simply about deciding which feature I want to lose least. That's a pretty crappy choice.

I tend to be an early adopter in these things, so Im probably biased. But I dont think that, say, Apple's app store or Amazon's website for Kindle are particularly alien to people. You browse through an online library, choose your title, pay, then it downloads. If you delete it you can re-download it again. If you get…

Out of interest and genuinely not in a argumentative way - will your PS4 will be connected to the internet and will you disconnect it when you dont need the internet on it?

In fairness, he's trying to compare something that doesn't exist to the most similar thing that does exist. You can always the differences in any analogy, but that doesn't mean there is no commonality.

It raises an interesting point - Sony (presumably) will have to offer an online store at some point. I suspect not having an online games store in 3 years time will seem very backward. So how will they manage it? How will they get around the issue of reselling without a regular online check?

Its worth remembering that these consoles will be around for 7, maybe up to 10 years. Digital by default may be a bit too soon now for many people's palette but Im certain Sony will only have to create some similar model in, say 2 or 3 years time, which is when consoles tend to begin to peak anyway (in terms of…

Kotaku seems to have totally lost its head (and I mean the commentators primarily). I started reading Kotaku in the first place mainly because it was less tribal and more balanced than the commenters on other sites. But this Xbox/PS4 thing has just made it ridiculous. I can only comapre it to when the iPad was…

Humorous.

You know all those people personally then? I would guess not. The Xbox may well fail this generation, but if it does it will fail in the way the PS3 failed - not because its competitor will sell 10 times more units, but because it fails to meet the broader strategic aims of the company upon release.

amazon UK preorders show xbox leading ps4 by a slim margin. Call it neck and neck then. That indicates that the idea of the xbox being some colossal flop is unlikely to happen.

I have to say that while I want to play and enjoy Monster Hunter, it just makes me think one thing - timesink. And while I would love to bust into one of those near endless games that I've enjoyed so often down the years (Civ 2 comes to mind), frankly my life has too much other stuff in it to fit a game of this type…

You don't seem to accept that for other people these just aren't concerns to them, as they are not to me. Thats not to say they shouldnt be concerns to you, just saying opinions differ.

Across the world its the sport of the working class and the poor. That's why it's rough and also why it's so popular.

Dungeons tend to be the high point in Zelda, where the real imagination comes in. Thats why WW was a let down for me - 6 dungeons, of which 3 are baby level intro dungeons.