@Turbolence88: Microsoft will usher in a new age of on-rails gaming!

@doubtful: It won't. He's just mad at Steam because it has a rather weak DRM. Seriously, in this day and age, who doesn't have their computer or laptop hooked up to the internet at all times?

@HowIsYourFlat: Blizzard: the one company which has failed to piss me off yet.

@omnistatic: The main problem is that this creates an inconvenience for the consumer. It's not like EA has created competition. They basically fragmented the market. Imagine if this takes off, and all the major publishes pull their games from steam and put it on their own service. I certainly would be unhappy about it.

@traintracks: It's business to get rid of a middle man in order to sell your products for higher profits. It's arrogance if they think their products are in such demand that people will inconvenience themselves in order to purchase said products.

@Korbei83: If companies don't hurry up and start looking into procedurally generated everything, all that processing power is going to go to waste as development costs start getting astronomical. I think they are better off going with the Wii U instead of trying to maximize whatever Microsoft and Sony will put out.

@Musouka: You figure it could get away with 2 smaller images, at least.

Turned based RPG's are all about strategy, tactics, and handling attrition. When they are good, the games require a bit of thought and preparation that you don't find in the more action based games. Turend based JRPG's of late have removed one or two of those 3 key items, and the genre has been going downhill.

@Flaeor: The one celebrity he needs to quit playing is himself.

@pandafresh: It may not have been the #1 console, but Nintendo still made a tidy little profit thanks to Mario, Metroid, and Zelda.

@chickdigger802: I hope not. Current gen development costs are already killing entire genres and series. Hell, we haven't seen a Tales of xyz game in years. On top of that, companies are too afraid to experiment, because if they don't give that game their all, the mass of reviewers will tear it to pieces.

@k0k0them0nkey: I'd really like to know what jrpgs you are talking about. One tales game, FFXIII, and a few from Mistwalker pale in comparison to the older systems. The rest are action RPGs and strategy RPGs which are their own genres. 90% of my jrpg collection this gen was on the DS and PSP.

@virtualhomer: I don't think I want those poor developers to have to spend 8x more money than now to make their games. I think Nintendo is trying to nail the sweet spot between extra power and development costs.

@searching with my good eye closed: I wonder what chunk of those 70 million were people buying a PSP to hack it. I personally know more people who did that than bought it for legit reasons.

@Mekkakat: I'm putting Skyrim on my "wait and see" list, since they basically consolized the series now.

I really hope that "I'm in trouble, please recommend this message" they rethink the message system "I'm in trouble, please recommend this message" when they make the sequel. "I'm in trouble, please recommend this message". Some got pretty "I'm in trouble, please recommend this message" redundant.

@mrantimatter: With the exception of the oracle games, all zelda games since ocarina of time have basically been much worse in some way:

@Culebra: **OH NO! MORE SPOILERS!**

@chickdigger802: As great as the oracle games were, Link's Awakening was loads better. Prob takes around 15-20 hours to beat.

@Cobaltios: I think the various Smash Bros games had all that in spades.