I kind of thought of The Island as a spiritual successor to Logan's Run.

That's not entirely true. EA still has to do something to get people to buy next year's model instead of continuing to play last year's.

I think they're referring to all of the bolstering you find around the head in something like a Sprint Cup car.

I have to believe that publishers/developers have something to do with this new approach. Why would the hardware makers care if people trade in their games or buy used? There has to be some kind of coercion involved, like publishers saying "Block used games on your hardware or we're going to stop developing for your…

I'm not the one who brought up the term Oscar bait; I just thought you needed an explanation. And I don't think it makes any sense, either.

It's an expression that comes from the film world. Smaller budget, dramatic, artistic movies that come out late in the year so as to capitalize on awards season are called Oscar bait. The commenter is claiming that Sony is interested in garnering awards with The Last Guardian, not making money.

If I wonder if this will have its own set of achievements? It would be kind of interesting to have 1000/1000 on the vanilla game and also 1000/1000 on the director's cut.

If Stern is #1 Howard Schultz has got to be #2.

If the price is right I'll be interested. I hate gaming on a smart phone, but there are definitely mobile games that I want to play.

Except lots of people already associate companies like Activision and EA with unadulterated corporate greed and it doesn't stop their games from selling tens of millions of copies. My point is that if Microsoft starts losing badly, they may drop the DRM, drop the online check, drop the price, then throw a bunch of…

All the negatives aside, Halo and Forza are enough to get me to buy an Xbox One, whereas Sony doesn't really have anything exclusive that I want to play. The problem for Microsoft, though, is that I'm perfectly willing to wait a couple of years to buy an Xbox One when it's $300 and play Halo and Forza long after…

Everything you say is valid, but I do think Microsoft would be willing and able to throw massive piles of money at exclusives if they had to in order to stay in the fight. Hell, they may have no choice after today...

Except I think there is an amount of developer moneyhatting that could lead Microsoft to victory. If they locked up franchises like CoD and Madden as exclusives (as difficult as that is to believe) I think they could be the ones putting Sony out of the console business. And it's yet to be seen who the publishers and…

My God, I can't believe the way you guys are arguing about this. Face it, some of you thought the car fell on the guy and can't walk away from that knee-jerk assumption. This all happened because the guy dropped a radio and thought he could grab it before the recovery vehicle ran him over. End of story.

Unless you work for the FIA or Circuit Gilles Villenueve, I don't think you know for certain what the proper safety rules were. Like I said before, they lift the cars like this all the time. The one rule that we know for certain was ignored? Don't crouch down in front of a moving vehicle to grab a radio. You can argue…

And none of that would have stopped the guy from dropping his radio and trying to pick it up from in front of a moving vehicle. That is, by far, the biggest mistake made in this incident.

Actually, Joystiq has a much better picture. It does have a disc drive.

It might just have a pop up lid.

See my other reply. They do this all the time. What they do not do is try to grab dropped radios from in front of moving recovery vehicles.

My point is that they lift the cars that high off the ground all the time without incident. And my original point that the car had nothing to do with the worker's death still stands. The guy died because he dropped his radio and made the (regrettably stupid) mistake of thinking he could grab it from in front of the…