I remember the 9/9/99 because the MTV awards were the same day and there was a small tie-in.

Included myself I have three friends (we all live in the same metropolitan city) buying them on launch day. We all preordered.

And that's the sunk cost fallacy. Would it really be that cost prohibitive to use an Android or Windows Phone and get repurchase your apps/find alternatives? Lots of folks think so (especially in this thread) but i think it's a good question to ask. I have a 4S and bought a Lumia 520 to play with on the side. I'm…

Thank you as well for having a civil conversation here on kotaku. With entertainment we have to be willing to go in with a level of disbelief for sure and can't expect things to be mirrored as they are in the real world. With that said though, it's important to be able to recognize something for what it is but also…

I mentioned the laundry note to draw a line at where one thing is cultural and when it becomes racialized. Again, there's a line and I was trying my best to illustrate it to you. A Native American sitting cross-legged in and of itself is not racist. However, creating a special move/Ultra in a game where said character…

You're missing the point. I'm saying that IF Chun-Li had such a move, it'd be racist. Her wearing a qipao however does not make Capcom racist since she is wearing cultural dress as opposed to adhering to a stereotype (such as doing laundry).

A common Chinese stereotype in the USA is that they do laundry/own laundromats. This image was most prevalent in the early to mid 1900s and still has a bit of resonance, especially in states like California. So yes, her doing laundry would be racist.

There's a difference between adopting cultural pieces and using drastic stereotypes. Chun-Li in a Qipao is not racist. Chun-Li having an Ultra move where she does laundry is racist. It's about intent and what is being represented. Street Fighter has a plethora of characters from all around the world who fight in…

Sounds like sunk cost fallacy to me.

I don't think he's asking for a review that's Xbox-centric. The way he sees it (least from how I'm reading the thread is as follows: this game is multiplatformand theoretically the PS3 and Xbox360 versions are the same. The PS3 version is broken (possibly with save glitches so those 8 hours won't matter anyway). So as…

White people have no ethnicity? Wow, hello white privilege. Way to otherize everyone else.

It's all relative bud.

Disney is really finicky with their Pixar licenses (probably even more so than with Star Wars or Marvel) so it'd be highly unlikely we'd ever see a Toy Story world or the like. There's a reason only one Pixar film has ever gotten a sequel.

I agree. I thought at first that they were sushi that also combined elements of doughnuts. Not that they were doughnuts that were meant to look like sushi.

Those were the days. Fortunately, at a young age we got our hands on the Japanese sub and I got to play Sailor Uranus instead of Tuxedo Mask (or in some cases Moonlight Knight). Funny how when I become older I really began to identify with Uranus *eh eh*

Well who knows, maybe in training mode there will be a way to test characters? I imagine they will have something so you can test characters before you buy, even if it's even when you first download the game with trial characters that only work in non-online matches or something.

He's also the main character of the series?

Cause it's not meant to be a selling point for Windows 8. This game is aimed at increasing Windows Phone usage if anything. The shared code between 8/RT and WinPhone is just icing. It's surprising they don't have it coming to 360, but maybe they'll announce that later.

Well obviously this isn't about money if they're bypassing iOS and Android. Plus this is a great way to pull in a crowd of gamers to a platform. I'm planning to switch to Windows Phone soon and this is an increased incentive. Would I move solely for this? No. But it helps increasingly. And that's what MS wants.

So should MS also release Halo on PS3? Of course not. That would ruin exclusivity of what makes the Xbox an Xbox.