I get that the divide between responsibility to the bottom and one's personal convictions is a wide one... it's just interesting how much Riccitiello seems like a guy we would—any of us— like to be gamer-friends with, and how little that was reflected in much of EA's business over the last few years.

It's funny— when people like this are outside the jobs we know them for performing (Peter Moore was a good example of this for a while, as well), they seem like such obviously right-headed people that we can't help but wonder why they didn't succeed. I can't find one thing in this article to disagree with, really— but…

The list will be, for some reason:

VOTE: Nexus 4.

Right after GATEFENCE, DAWNSET, and PAINOPENER.

...my xenoscience studies range from urban to agrarian...

I agree that asymmetrical gameplay is awesome— in fact, it was the first moment when I GOT the console. It all made sense. The Miiverse, not so much. It's nice, but incredibly cutesy and I wonder how diluted it'll get once all the constituents have a larger number of diverse games to play, and thus less content on…

I'm not certain how much marketing you really have to do to traditional gamers starved for titles on a brand new console, but either way the results speak for themselves: for most of the Wii U's library the sales have been awful. Blame whoever you like.

But that's a point worth mentioning: yes, Sony did appear to mimic certain elements of the Wii U with the Vita/PS3 pairing, and yes, they'll almost certainly do nothing with it at all. But they don't need to, because it's just a bullet point. And if it mattered, if anyone cared, then they'd have the chance to make hay…

GT6 Pre-prologue coming to PS3 in late summer 2013, GT6 Prologue coming to PS4 at launch, GT6 itself coming to PS4 in 2015.

I want to see them do well, but sometimes it seems like they're uninterested in the Wii U. I know there will always be a little stream of quality first-party stuff to check out on it (well, by the end of this year, anyway) and I'm cool with that, as it's my companion console. But it bums me out to see Nintendo so…

I don't see how you can argue it isn't Nintendo's fault, really. And your argument, it would seem, would apply primarily to ports... which I think most people would choose to play on the consoles they're already invested in (for instance, I usually do most of my multiplatform gaming on my 360, because I have more…

Ooh, so is it time to begin taking bets on exactly when EA will cancel Live 14? EA are such awesome trolls. This is starting to feel like how Charlie Brown keeps getting tricked into kicking the football. I'm thinking they'll pull the plug on it this time in July. Anybody?

Sigh. Not that I was going to buy a wrestling title, but it's always disappointing to see the Wii U get piled on (and yes, I do understand it's all Nintendo's fault, and yes I do understand that developing a port for a console that is selling poorly would be fiscally irresponsible on the part of the game's developers).

Oh man, if Spider Jerusalem is included. Gah. Best game EVER. (Sadly, beyond Transmetropolitan and Extremis I'm not a Warren Ellis fan at all, but those two things are among my favorite works EVER... and that's also why Iron Man 3 was such a huge letdown for me. It's a really, really great buddy cop movie, but it's a…

This has finally justified my Wii U. I mean, there's Pikmin and WWHD, but THIS. This is pretty fresh (doesn't hurt that I'm a sucker for Scribblenauts in the first place).

The entire problem is that Nintendo chose very poorly when it came to the overall specs of the system. Developers would, I'm sure, LOVE to make games for the thing— if only doing so didn't represent such a departure from the relative standards of its competitors. Asymmetrical local multiplayer is AMAZING, but nobody…

That's a lamentable notion, but it's a logical fallacy to jump from that to a position wherein we embrace GameStop's wrongheaded business model just to prevent people from losing their jobs.

I bought the "Garden" DLC first, and am holding off for "Roof" until my next payday. I like flowers, but I hope the weather holds.

I don't think anyone— regardless of their animosity toward GameStop as a business— actually wishes for people to be out of work. But there is a wide gulf separating sympathy from admiration for a company's bad practices. I think every one of us wishes the best for those store-level employees relying on GameStop to pay…