I dunno, it's been eight years. I figured if Microsoft was going to give me a reason to buy one it would have happened by now. If it was going to happen it probably would have been before all its timed exclusives jumped ship.

Look, I'm not defending Microsoft and I think Sony is going to eat them for breakfast this generation. But it's you who's rolling out the flawed argument. You can't treat physical and digital items as equivalent, it doesn't work. You're ignoring the basic principles of supply and demand. As well as ignoring the key…

The problem I have is that although you say they could adopt Steam style sales and new pricing models I don't think they will. There's certainly no guarantee that they'll do this and publisher greed/stupidity makes it likely that they'll continue trying to charge full retail until it bites them in the ass.

And yet I still think that at least half of those fifteen will end up on PC anyway. This is far from a confirmation that they won't and Microsoft have a track record of releasing a lot of Xbox "exclusives" on the PC.

My mistake. Still it didn't get a 360 release until a year after the PS3 release. So I don't see them ever making it an Xbox exclusive.

It'll never be exclusive to Xbox. There's a difference. It was never even released on Xbox in Japan.

Versus XIII for PS4. Possibly rebranded as either Final Fantasy XV, just FF Versus, or something else ala Type 0. I can't see it retaining the XIII moniker.

Porn brings out weirdness no matter what nationalities are involved. After all as odd as some Japanese Porn is only the west brought us Pterodactyl porn.

Forget the troops, won't somebody please think of the children!?

If anyone needs to sit up and pay attention to what Steam is doing right now it's Microsoft. They've given the X1 one of the big disadvantages of Steam, they need to match its advantages too.

Only if people find something to dislike about it. The PS4 reveal was largely positive. People spent more time bitching over the lack of women on stage and the fact they didn't show the box than the console itself.

Because for the people that don't like systems like Steam it's a problem, for those that primarily buy their games used and/or resell their games when they're done with them it's a problem. But the other thing is that for people like me who buy all their games new and keep them it may not be a problem. But it's not a…

"Has" being the operative word there. There's no guarantee that it'll continue to be the case. You certainly can't claim that it'll "always" be better. That's just blind fanboyism. Sony are putting a strong focus on improving PSN this generation so it's hard to imagine XBL will retain any significant advantage, it…

That's just speculation so far from people reading into things too much. No guarantee that it'll be the case.

No, there's no evidence that this will be the case. Right now it's nothing more than speculation and baseless rumour mongering.

This is a rumour so baseless even Kotaku hasn't reported on it. I'm really tired of seeing people spreading this speculation as if it were fact. There is zero evidence that this will be the case and Sony would be mad to cede such a big competitive advantage.

About the only thing that could be construed as ads on PS3 is the "What's new". Which you can turn off showing at startup, and the "ads" disappear when you navigate away from it. Plus they're all at least relevant, I've never seen McDonalds advertised on there. Finally paid service versus free service. The ads aren't…

The thing is its not. Microsoft is focusing on the Xbox as a media centre because a lot of people used it as one. But the people that did bought it to play games on. How many people do you know that bought a 360 purely for media?

Doesn't really matter, the mainstream media aren't representative of the target market.

Of the ones you listed only two are Microsoft franchises. The rest you can find on Play station, PC, or both. You're right that it's games that make or break a console and the problem is MS hasn't shown any.