I honestly have never thought exclusives do that. Maybe among the hardcore, but if you look at software sales of exclusive games, they’re underwhelming if you were to say people bought said consoles for them.

Which is the whole point of this industry anyway; hardware for every company is just a vehicle for software sales, where you make the real money. MS doesn’t really care where they sell Gears 4 as long as they sell millions.

Right, but slightly less complicated and slightly more affordable. I think one of the biggest failings of the Steam Machines that we’ve seen is that most of the people making them have terrible connections to reduce cost on these things. If Scorpio can really pull off what they say, and they can hit a price less than…

But you do have choices. I strongly suspect that the weaker versions will be cheaper, and at least so far with Scorpio, they all play the same stuff. So if you don’t really care about graphics, but you just want something to play Halo 6 on in 2018 (or whenever) you can buy they weaker Xbox for less money.

I think it will, and I think MS and developers will want this in the future. Every generation, a mid-season update that just performs better under the hood. Devs have been wanting that forever. Every other console will have exclusives, these will be for the graphics junkies.

They said no exclusives, and so I have to take Todd’s comment with symbolic logic: he said Scorpio lets them do 4K AND VR, so I assume the orignal/slim models will only do one or the other. You can still use VR Fallout and 4K Fallout on earlier models, but both might need Scorpio.

That’s likely the point from both Sony and MS. Nintendo is going to be fighting for headlines, and with the Scorpio at least, I find it hard to believe Nintendo will be close to that in spec. Sony/MS teaming up next holiday for a big blow to Nintendo while they’re on the back foot.

Yeah, because I need another box for some co-op stuff with my wife. We’ve only got one, and not that many games do split-screen anymore.

Yeah, bad on Jason for not reporting the biggest part of the announcement. This won’t be like the New 3DS with any exclusive stuff. Everything works on every Xbox. That was my biggest fear with this Neo/Scorpio stuff. Hopefully Neo is the same way.

I’ll say, technically, we do know the ending. When Jack tries to use a time portal on top of the mountain, and fails to defeat the guardian, the guardian looks into the portal, says “Not yet, samurai. Not yet.”, and sees an older Jack who is meant to be Jack when he’s strong enough to win.

I really dislike how much that last runner thinks he’s responsible for that run at all. Dude’s acting like he stole home instead of strolling into a shitshow.

The threat is coming that it’ll erode naturally anyway, from the other side. Multiple companies are setting out to remove the only downside to PC gaming; a lot of people don’t like building them. Razor, Valve, Dell (through Alienware), etc... are all trying to make a PC that’s easy to handle for the majority of…

I suspect they’ll be going for a modular system. It’ll be a sort of “Build your own PC, easy!” set-up. Companies like Razor and Alienware exist for people to pay a little extra for PC gaming, so I would think MS is trying to basically make Windows Machines (like Steam Machines, but with the more common OS). I don’t…

I would find that announcement surprising. The new MS clearly likes the division (it’s a main feature on their new logo, and that logo is the first time they really changed their logo in their company history), and it’s making bank relative to the 360. Also, compared to their other businesses, Xbox is chump change. If…

I mean, this isn’t really a criticism of this particular person anymore. It’s just talking about how art is dumb, which I largely agree with.

Yeah, I believe Penn State’s insurers are disputing the claim that they should pay out to the victims instead of the University itself.

Yup, agreed.

Grant’s administration was plagued by enough scandal that I’d even hesitate to include him. Great general, poor control of his offices.

The Wii U problem wasn’t necessarily the name itself, but all the overuse of the “Wii -insert-” naming system. I mean, Wii Wheel, Wii Fit, Wii Balance Board, Wii Zapper, Wiimote, Wii Sports, Wii Sports Resort, Wii U, etc...

This is true. Also, E3 is the only time of year that non-gaming publications give headlines to gaming announcements. For a lot of the public, what’s said at E3 is what’s true for the entire year (until the next one). They don’t follow Kotaku, they just see E3 headlines all over their MSN homepage.