I read this twice and I still have no idea what the point is. Either Paradox Me is batshit insane or I am.

You're right that MS is probably the best candidate - I mean, they acquired Rareware for God's sake. But I wouldn't count Sony out. Nintendo does seem unlikely, but they've also been trying to market the WiiU to core gamers, and buying THQ would be a cheap way to secure some core exclusives and some moderately…

Maybe, though I'm not sure why you think it's so bad - everything I've read points to mismanagement. THQ's brands are not particularly valuable but keep in mind, Midway was liquidated partially because it filed for Bankruptcy in 2009, when the industry was already enduring a great deal of cost-cutting and studio…

Gamefly isn't public, but best I can tell its business has been profitable as of late, so obviously effective forecasting is possible. Even if Netflix breaks even, having games available as an option differentiates Netflix from other instant streaming companies.

Why are you cautious? Instead of buying a game for $60 and selling it back to Gamestop for $20, you can wait a couple weeks and find it for $40 on Steam. Ultimately you pay the same price.

I'm not sure I buy your argument - why would it be easy to create multiple copies of something to give it away for free if you could simply gift one of the games in your Steam library to another Steam user's account? I can't fathom any DRM issues that would arise from Steam allowing a secondary market between…

People will say they don't like this idea, but their wallets suggest otherwise. If you look at all successful digital distribution platforms, you'll see the one thing they universally lack: transferability. Steam, iTunes, Netflix - these have been successful services in what are now competitive spaces, but none of…

This is a huge mistake for Netflix - as DVD subscriptions give way to instant subscriptions, this would be a great way to maintain the scale necessary to keep shipping and logistics incredibly cheap, which would also make Netflix a very scary competitor for Gamefly (assuming Netflix didn't just outright acquire…

*past time.

It wasn't the glitches that got to me. But enough people have replied to disagree with me that I'll seriously give it another go; perhaps I just wasn't in the right mindset.

If you are thinking of taking the Kingdoms of Amalur deal, please play the demo first.

According to what I've said, the first XBox released in 2001, the second XBox, called the XBox 360, released in 2005, and the third XBox, tentatively referred to as the XBox 720, is expected to release in 2013. I haven't made any claim whatsoever about life cycles.

Can't reply to your comment below because it is too short, but XBox 3 doesn't work because Microsoft doesn't want to remind people that its console iterations lag behind Playstation. That's why they called it the 360 - if they called it the XBox 2, it would have sounded inferior to the Playstation 3. Had they just…

No

Those are actual release dates (and a predicted release date) for XBox consoles. I'm not sure if you've been doing pattern recognition problems all day or what but I have no idea what you're talking about.

2001 - XBox

I'm mostly amazed how cluttered the stores look there

Everyone who used to be big into JRPG's has been put off by them this gen.

Well I, for one, found Zack to be a far more identifiable hero than Cloud in the first place, and it doesn't make sense to write off a series on account of "fluff" releases that are specifically designed and marketed to extract a little extra cash from the series' most faithful without costing too much or taking too…

You take that back it was nowhere near as bad as Advent Children.