"It's easy to gloss over close analysis of these games and wave them away as stupid shooters"

Sounds GPU intensive

Well, good a time as any then, I suppose

Oh man thank God I skimmed past that Star Trek nonsense those Hunter shots were incredible. Why can't TES look like that?

@cio Thank you I felt like I'd been taking crazy pills for a bit there

Is this a good time to beg for a vBulletin board?

I thought about that but I wanted to make sure to get a joke into my post and couldn't think of a better metaphor.

Mostly I just wanted to post here for the irony of commenting on an article about commenting on articles. But I will say that Kotaku commenters, vis-a-vis other sites I've posted on, take themselves far too seriously in a debate. I will qualify that by saying that this is pretty much the only major forum where it's…

Does anyone else think releasing all three of these in the same month is a really bad idea?

*Konami

Just watch - I'm going to make Belle my wife!

Well this is relief, if the internet crusaders in the other gender thread were to be believed, I'M the most sexist gamer on the planet.

My guess is that EA is trying to better leverage its traditional gaming brands (e.g. Dead Space) into casual games by giving up control of EA's casual development assets to its other groups.

Haha, thanks for the scoop, HBK. It all makes sense now - I haven't been called a "lily ass" in some time.

So you have no response or reaction to the perfectly reasonable, if sarcastically phrased, points above but you're looking for intelligent conversation? Sounds to me like you'rr just looking for someone who shares your interests.

We agree that the next generation will be a repeat of this generation in many ways, but apparently diverge on the consequences of that.

I'm coming up with my info from a lens of financial performance and strategic competitive advantage for a loss leader product that took years to recoup any money and continues to lag both its major competitors significantly.

To emphasize one more point after that tl;dr post, Sony isn't coming into this generation with the momentum of the Playstation 2, which means publisher expectations of Sony's user base are not going to get the benefit of a doubt.

One issue is that, by the time Sony removed backwards compatibility, the Playstation 3 library was already large enough on its own to be sustainable. I don't think the library of PS3 games is going to matter much - if people want to play PS3 games they will buy a PS3 at a massive discount (no different than the PS2…

Oh my. Again, I was just commenting on the general mood of the threads I read when I came to this article. But you're right, I'm sure that record short-term sales after an unprecedented price drop reflect massive long-term consumer interest, and not just simple principles of demand-side economics. We wouldn't want…