Somewhat relative:

Yeah I Skype every week and my girlfriend can hear everything across the room. If anything, it seems to amplify it because I can barely hear what's across my house.

I also really liked it, but it had it's problems. Game cartridges were very expensive, the controller was very odd, and they started pushing away from 3rd party support.

The other players voices are still coming out of the same speakers that the game noise is. It's no substitute. They're just trying to push the Kinect hard in all areas.

Yeah someone else mentioned that, thanks for the edit.

It no doubt had good games, but that was when they started pushing away from 3rd party games. And the choice to use game cartridges was very expensive.

The PS3 was terrible at launch. It launched at $600 with no interesting games and was far behind what the Xbox360 brought in terms of social connectivity with XBL. While it's now a great console, it had a very rocky start and didn't live up to the PS2 dominance.

Has MS ever actually used the Kinect? When you use it for chat your voice echoes and you can hear every little thing in that person's room like it was right next to the mic. It's terrible. Now everyone's voice is going to come out of the TV? Has MS ever played a public MP match? Racist slurs and screaming, except it…

I don't know, I see it as the developer can't deliver because the hardware wasn't good enough to meet expectations. The only successful games for Kinect were family games that didn't involve any complex motions or mechanics, because it just wasn't possible to deliver a smooth experience.

Have you played Steel Battalion? Or Rise of Nightmares? Those games are aimed at the "core" and they are atrocious. Just terrible games. The reason they stuck with family games is because they are simple and easy to make as please the casual crowd. Whereas us "core" gamers get into the games and expect them to be high…

Well it doesn't help that they work with MS, of course they're going to talk it up.

Most of this is just talk and everything happens behind the scenes. How do you actually show someone what the cloud is doing for the game? They say they can offload all types of computing, but how can that be present when you play a game? Will this lead to better AI, graphics, and other mechanics?

It has a real arcade feel to it. The story missions are graded based on how well you completed them and it encourages you to replay them for higher leaderboard scores. I personally didn't like the MP because they turned it into just human on human VS with exception to a human VS locust mode where you can play as…

I feel like they could have put more work into the minigames. There's a few out of the 12 that you'll never replay. It's a real hit-or-miss type game, and I'm a bit disappointed in the quality when compared to the others in the series.

The only two Let's Play's I watch are made by pretty funny guys, so it's mostly humorous. I never watch ones where the person is serious, doesn't talk, or is straight up annoying (pewdiepie for example).

I can't even begin to fathom how much money this guy could win.

I can't take this seriously. And most JRPGS in fact. I have nothing against them or the people who enjoy them, but it's just so over the top. Most of the time it doesn't feel like it should be when the characters and story are supposed to be serious. The trailer was going decent, typical save the world quest, serious…

If we can't get a MMO, can we at least get a console version that doesn't suck ass?

I don't really know what Mario Kart can do to be innovative. They have just been improving on graphics and gameplay, and add little features to change it up a bit.