Haha, that hack Toriyama could never pull off a game as good as Dark Souls.

You should probably check your facts. This is Nomuras first time directing an FF title. The real agents of the decline you speak of are Kitase and that talentless hack Toriyama.

Disney owns Marvel now. Make it happen Nomura.

It suffered from disc read errors, it didn't scratch DVDs. And most reports would say that the RROD was worse. It's hard to know anything for sure though because there aren't any accurate figures on the PS2s failure rate. You could however fix the problem by cleaning the lens on the reader. On some you could get…

Microsoft certainly hasn't assured victory, but this way they'll probably at least avoid outright defeat.

You know nothing Jon Snow. It was consumer outrage that blocked this move, Sony merely capitalised on it.

From the sounds of it only a small number of PS3's were affected. And it's not like this has never happened to the 360 either, at least once in 2011 and I think there was another occurrence of it as well. At any rate it still pales in comparison to the number of 360's that ended up as bricks due to the RROD. And you…

The first is subjective, and with the massive overhaul PSN is getting for PS4 the second may not even be true any more.

So no more 24 hour check-in? This is as close as we'll get to an admission that all the crap they were talking about it being required for magical cloud mumbo jumbo was just that. Crap.

Hah, yeah right. A lot of people that quit end up coming back at one point or another. Many people look back, when there's a new expansion, a big patch, or they're simply bored. Not everyone is an incredibly bitter individual.

Well the way I understand it is that whenever a used X1 game is sold the retailer gets a slice, Microsoft gets a slice, and the publisher of the game gets a slice. So there's your angle. Profit from the entire used X1 market. EA have denied that they pushed MS for this, but obviously take that with a grain of salt.…

Uh, no it's not. Are you an idiot or something? Wait, don't answer that. I think I already have a good idea.

Just because it's the truth doesn't mean it's a defence of the practice ya'know.

Actually a few news items have indicated that this is something Microsoft actually pushed for. Not saying that it's not something the publishers don't want, and I imagine one of the reasons Microsoft did it was to court publishers. But it's hard to tell who was actually the driving force behind the move. Remember that…

No, the only major difference is that Microsoft has offered up the publishers a DRM solution on a platter that enables much tighter restrictions on used content than is even possible on the PS4. To say it's just the 24-hour online check is sugar-coating it.

It would be cool, but I'm not sure how much business sense it makes. I have a 200 game plus library on Steam. It doesn't take a genius to figure out I'm not playing almost 95% of it. If I could lend out that excess it wouldn't really matter if I couldn't play it at the same time.

It's at times like this I regret PS+. I really hope my PS3 is okay, I want to continue the Last of Us. I hope there's a fix at least if it's not. One that doesn't involve losi- oh yeah. Cloud save storage. I guess that might mitigate things. But I don't think I have it enabled for some games I haven't played recently.

I don't have any examples to hand, but these are bad because they're just straight cut and pastes. Not only has no effort been put into blending them with the destination image but there's been no work put into properly isolating the source image. That's why all the cat heads look like magazine cut outs.

Uh, no I didn't. I asked if original thought is banned in China. I'm not sure how you managed to read that as "world of tanks".

You know what bothers me most? They're not even decent shops...