And aren't used games a bit like how you can milk one story for as many page hits as possible with multiple headlines?

Publishers are already selling PC games, which have near zero or zero resale value, and much lower per unit costs than console games (because of the lack of packaging and licensing fee) for $60.

The big thing with no back compat (and if it's not using Cell it would be insanely hard to have BC) is then there's almost no reason to buy this when it comes out. Remember how mediocre PS3 games were for a long time after the system launched? That's not unique to PS3, but looking back your good launch game was...…

If the AMD x64 CPU thing is true then it would be almost impossible to offer back compat. The Cell architecture is so bizarre and unlike your standard multi-core CPU system that you can technically emulate it, but effectively it'll crawl. PCs can barely manage emulating PS2 these days.

Not normally, but some of the girls cultivate it, especially for voice work.

You need some failure for best reward, but it needs some rules:

This is the most infamous one:

Man, I have Nvidia cards, don't give me that defensive 'fanboy' crap, Cletus. But I don't trust them either. Hell, I got hit by the entire generation of defective solder joints thing too, where their solution was 'just buy a new video card' for anyone who got screwed.

This looks quite nice, but with anything Nvidia you can't believe it till it's in other people's hands. They're notorious for faking demos, to the point of showing off completely fake hardware. This could just be a couple of last year's cards SLIed to show off what they're aiming for - or it could be the real thing.…

I really, really, hate the way the Dead Rising games do this. If you could just flamethrower all the way through it'd break the game. But when you have a purposely tiny inventory and it takes a lot of work to put together something cool, at least give me ten minutes of going to town with it before it breaks. Not six…

Take a look at the horns of the right guy on the iPad (3) half. Lot more jaggies there than there should be if it were rendered at retina resolution.

Epic - I read the whole thing as Smoove B:

Well, based on the reviews I won't say Binary Domain or Yakuza 4 are bad - I do think I'll get Binary Domain on sale given the competent (but not stellar reviews), but I'm thinking at least Brave Firefighters or Sega Rally or even Crazy Taxi good.

I approached this in an earlier comment, but it's too late to edit it, so...

Well - it's hard to stomach, but Sega will likely never make a good game again (they might publish one). So, given that, I'd rather have them doing HD remakes of games from when they knew how to make games rather than working on Sonic the How Can We F@$# It Up This Time.

I will take HD Skies of Arcadia, since Sega will never make a sequel (and if 2012 Sega did it it would suck).

Yeah, yeah, for the people ragging on his grammar, he's English as a Second Language and I assume it's Tim writing the dialogue (Ron?). I'd certainly hire him for the two months as an intern. Making /anything/ is the most important thing at all. Design documents and resumes are easy.

Even better, Blizzard always craps on the PvE in a desperate and futile attempt to balance the PvP (by twiddling knobs randomly).

The sad thing for me is that while we can still argue endlessly about which is the best, there is a pretty broad consensus that XIV is the worst. Remember the days of 'It's VIII!' 'No, XII!' Gone. Siiiiggggh.

I should hope so. Those are both 5 years old and cost less than half as much as the new iPad.