Thank goodness we saved gamestop by all insisting on second hand games for xbox one...

If its the NSA youre concerned about its important to understand what they're doing and how. One of the main things they're doing is looking to record meta-data, rather than data per se. Meta-data is far more useful. For example they can see who you are emailing and where your email comes from. You cant encrypt this…

Yeah can only agree. I only hope that they are reeling back the features with the ability to bring them back again. Ultimately if the Xbox and the PS4 have the same features why get an Xbox, when the PS4 is £100 cheaper and a little faster?

The reason for that is two fold though - Kinect was too laggy and the Microsoft team lacked imagination; the Move was just a "me too" that never caught on. And in both cases, not enough people owned them for developers to build hardcore games that required them. At best they had to build them as an option, with no…

I think the reason we're seeing all this change is simply because Don Mattrick has gone. He, like Steve Sinofksy on Widows 8, was a dogmatist. Like Sinofsky he had a vision for his project, that in many ways was forward thinking. However, again like Sinofsky, he was too dogmatic, to the point of thinking the general…

The thing about "privacy" online is that it covers a range of people who may be interested in your data, and for different purposes.

Bit of a dick move by MS. Grated the amount of money isnt too awful. If you have, say, 3 active users the total increase is $40 more per person after 2 years. That said, any more money is a downer and if you have 4 kids all active users thats a bummer, since Mum and/or Dad have to pay for all of them.

Yeah the mobility of phones - I think a lot of people play, or at least start playing, on trips to work or things like that.

I don't think that vast numbers of people want these games on a set top box personally, I think mobility is half the deal. But plenty of people will try producing devices as long as there's so much money in it.

The latter point is a good one. the pace of smartphone and tablet improvement is absurd at the moment. 12 months puts a device out of date. However if said device is inexpensive its less of an issue. If its a £500 tablet thats one thing, but if its a £99 set top box it might matter less.

Agreed. What made the Wii controller great was that you had the normal buttons and stick, but the motion control and infra red pointer gave you an additional few ways to interact that had a modest relationship with what was happening on screen. So making Mario spin after jumping by shaking the control felt more…

Really? How so? Im in the Uk where its not available (without some proxy jiggery pokery that is) but I've always thought it looked cool. Pretty much the only TV shows I watch from the US all seem to be made by HBO.

Both Sony and MS need a big chunk of their users to buy online subscriptions to make their financial models work. It adds a couple of hundred pounds to the price of each unit, assuming ppl stick at it for a few years. It also engages users into buying more content, including music and films, which they'd both love to…

One man's gimmick is another man's innovation.

Its a great idea to go with one and wait on all those exclusives on the other(s) til you can get them cheap. My 320gb PS3 slim cost £150 with Uncharted 2 & 3 & God of War 3. its second hand but it only needed to last me a couple of years. Sorted.

Depending on your needs, its possible that any smartphone will do. if all you want is email, facebook, sms and phone, no problem they all do that.

Then you hit a quality of life issue. I loved living in a tiny flat in the city when I was 21. by the time I had a wife and kid I realised that an hours drive to work and being able to live in a big house constituted a better quality of life.

Sure. Why then does it fail the real world test and so few people do it?

So logical. I wonder why so few people do it then...