"There was no application Apple could show me, nor game you could have me play that would sway my resolve. Now I'm not so sure."

Correction: the original iPhone was $500 or $600 depending on the memory capacity. They were then lowered to $400 and $500 something like 6 months later.

@heretrix: Yeah, but I LIKED the die rolling aspect. And all this talk of moving the combat of my favorite Xbox franchise to populist, boring realms of the first person shooter has me very nervous.

Excited to see what they come up with, but still pretty cautious.

COOL! Now... I wonder if I can somehow transfer the Steam license I already bought...

Ok, here's MY prediction: it will be some lame sounding gimmick that everyone will groan about until they try it. After that, most people will think it's OK, some people will still hate it, and EVERYONE will just wish the announcement was that the next Zelda game was going to be in HD.

@rich8606: An interesting thing that was in the press release that I haven't seen discussed on Kotaku is that all the streaming is actually through BD Live. So technically the PS3 is acting as nothing more Blu-ray player. That's probably the loophole that allows them to do this.

@Kougeru: Hmm... who to trust...? Literally dozens of professional critics with years of experience...? Or this crazy sounding guy in the Kotaku comments...?

"Pretty"? Really? I _strongly_ disagree.

@BONERJAM: The great thing about it is the variety of ways you can use it. I don't follow people who tweet all day because that would be super annoying. But I find it to be a great way to communicate with your friends. Most people I follow just use it as a new way to "check out this link".

Someone already said it but I'll say it again:

Doesn't seem so mysterious to me. Most of us grew us as geeks. A geek's natural enemy is the jock. Jocks like sports. Geeks don't.

Lots of good ones, but LOTS of my favorites missing: Norwigian Wood, Day in the Life, Long and Winding Road.

@BryanH: Whoops is right! You obviously thought I meant that because MS does something, they were the only ones who have ever done that thing! What an embarrassing misunderstanding! I clearly meant only that that MS has had many very public payola deals with the 360, and are becoming rather known for it. I'll try to…

The next MS console should just be called the Xbox Payola.

@ZaxxonQ.com: They're trying really hard to be all designery, but failing. The font's not the problem it's the layout and tone and style and just about everything else. Also: some white dude is the Prince of Persia. So. There's that.

@(Zombie) Jolan: I've been holding out for the PS3 version as well, but it's hard when there's no certain date. Sony must be sitting on it for strategic release date.

The real question is whether they'll have some sort of API web developers can utilize. If so, people could get "most recently played" or "most recent trophies" widgets for their own website/blog, etc.

One thing's for sure, he clearly doesn't see the movies he insults. Letters From Iwo Jima ("Imovio"?) was full of anything but "brainwashed patriots". It was rather un-patriotic in a way, in fact-both sides realizing that there are just fighting other people like themselves.

I've been using Crossover Games ([www.codeweavers.com]) for a little while now and it works pretty great. I installed and ran the new Crayon Physics Deluxe demo ([www.crayonphysics.com]) with (almost) no troubles at all. And this is a game that isn't even official supported by Crossover Games. It just worked.