I'm curious, are you saying that you think MS's marketplace would never have had comparable pricing/practices to Steam? I don't see how your ability to see the future is any better than the "blind scum" you angrily mock. I don't know that it would ever have been as cheap as Steam (given that PC games are regularly…

I listen to plenty of hip hop too; I just didn't think it fit the trailer, but hey, at least it worked for some people.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. There are plenty of choices that would've worked well, but I don't think hip-hop was one of them. Sounds like they're trying too hard.

Oh, gotcha, my bad!

Yeah I jumped in on this too. Seeing LeVar Burton tear up when they hit their goal on the first day was awesome. The dude is clearly super passionate about this, and it's awesome to see people jumping on board for such a great cause. We all could use a little more reading in our lives.

They got $2.5 million in the first 2 days of funding; there's a pretty good chance they'll reach $5 mil by July 2nd (their goal).

Yeah, it's a little shorter than I'd like, but I had a great time playing through it. If the gladiator portion was a little more multi-dimensional, then I'd probably still be playing it currently. As it is, I go back every once in a while.

Well, I have a 55" inch calibrated screen, my eyesight is perfect, and I have run games at all manner of resolution, have run the same movie at both 720p and 1080p, etc. I would still call the difference slight, at least from what I've seen of most games on both consoles. The texture differences are also pretty…

I'd say MS is in no danger whatsoever of becoming the next Sega, given that they don't have the 3rd party struggles that Sega did. If anything, Nintendo is the one that is more likely to go Sega's route, if they can't start getting people to buy their hardware (consoles, not handhelds, I mean).

Yup, same here. I usually don't get into these PC Master Race bait articles, but every once in a while I do...and then I spend the next 2-3 hours responding to angry posters.

The reason I said that is that I seem to remember reading more than one dev say that they were still getting used to the XB1's hardware (much like the PS3's last gen). That, combined with taking Kinect out of the equation should (if the statement is true) give the XB1 decent theoretical potential. Again, I don't know…

Not that I like these, but how would you handle dance games, then? My girlfriend happens to like them (and yes, she likes what I'd consider actual games too), and they'd be nothing without the Kinect. The fact that Kinect has such great potential outside of gaming should mean great potential inside gaming as well,…

Hmm, while "won't let" was a poor choice of words, I think it's a combination of people not wanting it, and people not being willing to give it a chance. People are pretty risk-averse, so unless they hear that something is a sure thing, they're not really likely to shell out money for it. That, combined with MS's…

I don't think that's a coincidence, sadly. He realized a little later that he could just make weird music with half-assed braggadocio lyrics (and not the usual ones in rap—instead of talking about how rich he was, he moved on to calling himself a genius and/or god), and people would still give him the same money, and…

Well, I don't have a PS4 so I can't speak to it personally; I can only say that based on what I've seen, it isn't that huge. I would also imagine that given more time, XB1 games will look much closer to PS4 ones (especially when devs can turn off whatever horsepower the Kinect is using).

I agree that the Xbox is in troubled waters, but mostly because people won't let it do what it's trying to do. The Kinect has a lot of potential and could be a great differentiator, but combined with the PS4's slight graphical advantage/$100 lower price point, it became the symbol of MS's "bad" moves, and thus was put…

I don't have a smug sense of mediocrity. There's nothing smug about my enjoyment of console gaming. Growing up I played on both my PC and consoles. But you have to understand, I've been a console guy since the NES, so it's just something that makes sense to me. If you're blaming my preferences on making it "harder for…

Or I'm able to multitask! <—— Correct answer

Well, I'm at work, so I didn't say I had better things to do right now ;)

I can appreciate the optimism, although sadly I do not share it.