japan has had technologically superior smart phones before the iphone was released

Maybe I was already too old at the time because I'm afraid I can't say that I miss them.

Nintendo is a 125 years old company and has been making video games for 40 years. One could easily argue that they've also been "milking" a few couple of big franchises over that time. Rovio has been around for about 4 years with Angry Birds (released in December 2009). How many other recently founded game companies…

Arguably one of the weakest entries in the franchise. But Galaxy was awesome and it seems like everyone agrees that Super Mario 3D World is one of the best Mario game ever.

Come on, don't be so hard on Nintendo. Mario is still a fun game.

You maybe too young to remember it, but Mario was a lot more ubiquitous than Angry Birds will ever be.

Nintendo has been milking Mario for nearly 30 years now. How much more's left in the tank?

How an Angry Birds comics can be worse than this:

Does Mario even has a story other than jumping on stuff and saving the princess?

This may just be a sign of me being/getting older,

Colors? In my day, we had no color, and we liked it.

Value and price are not the same thing. It's business 101, really: you should price your product based on how much it is worth to your customers (=how much they'll pay). If you price your product higher than what your customers are willing to pay (=perceived value), you need to either 1) rethink your product's pricing…

sale lowers the perception of a good's true value

The 64 version is a wee closer:

Most of them would not, just as most people didn't buy the MacBook Pro with Retina at launch and instead waited a year or two once the technology became more affordable.

What he's calling the "culture of sales" has been going on for at least a hundred years, better known as "consumption society."

If they're hot, should we call them GMILF?

Region locking is already in place on Steam. There are hundred of titles on Steam that users living in Japan can't buy because of it. Retail codes don't work either, unless you use a VPN -which is deemed illegal by Steam's EULA:

Frankly the currency isn't as much of an issue as the fact that the majority of games available via Steam are either not localized (or very poorly localized) in Japanese or that the Japanese publisher is preventing them from being sold in Japan. And of course, Steam is enabling region locking, which means that you can…

The issue is not so much with "pretty girls" as with pretty girls wearing skimpy outfits.