Survey Question 1: Personally, I'd accept a mode that allows at least a week of offline playing (this would hopefully give a buffer for any potential Live downtime).

Whatever Sony needs to do to put more support behind the Vita, do it. Make it cheaper there, make it cheaper here (even though I bought one a couple months ago) - we just want to see more good games on it!

This is pretty much the same reaction I had to watching Sekirei.

For the curious, some of the high bids are currently: Dragonair ($57), Machop ($60) Mewtwo ($70), Gengar ($70), Venusaur ($81) Rapidash ($85), Gyrados+Misty($102)....and at the top, as is only fitting, Mew at $160

Well played, Kirk. Well played. I agree with basically everything said in this article. Infinite and Dishonored are also probably my two favorite games of the last...I don't know, 5 or so years anyway. Both have created amazing worlds that are great to just exist and explore in. Infinite's plot and characters are on…

Excuse me while my North American self and my North American Vita go to a corner to cry quietly. And then play more Persona 4.

Yet that won't stop them from charging 7 bucks a month for the actual ABILITY to play online, I expect.

Hopefully this is good for SE, they really seemed to lose their way after XI. I'd certainly like to see SE recapture some of that old magic, and maybe this will get them headed in that direction. On a side note - I'm not a player of it, but now and then I take a peek at what they're doing with XIV since its notorious…

David Hayter wasn't brought back to voice Snake. For me, Metal Gear Solid V does not exist.

"Close to the Original Final Fantasy" interested...reading....."old fashioned dungeon-crawling" still interested....reading...."released for the 3DS" *slams head on desk* I already sold my soul for the Vita, I can't sell it again for a 3DS -_-

Almost every comment you make is full of hate, anger, bigotry, or some combination thereof. Is this really what makes you happy, to sit around and be so callous on the internet? I don't ask trolls that much, but every now and then inquiring minds want to know.

"Manipulation" is a very loaded word. With very negative connotations. Is it truly so devious what they're doing? I think it's brilliant.