I'll miss the site if only because it had good articles about gaming. It was the one site I could go to that would pretty well guarantee that I wouldn't find every second article to be very loosely tied into gaming (or not related at all.)

I don't blame him for being sarcastic. You weren't discussing the issue directly which in itself undermines the conversation.

I am a prolific Kotaku Commenter.
Deal with it.

You call yourself a "prolific game journalist", I say another video game blogger.

Stephen,

This is upsetting. Ben was one of the few reporters/journalists I saw that was fair about the initial Xbox One news. Wrote a couple of articles about how, as bad as things seemed, it could be the first step towards a legitimately better era of console gaming. Of course, most comments were about how wrong he was and…

I'm torn to be honest, the original seems the most... Authentic? To me. However, I always found the Playstation 2's to be the most aesthetically pleasing. It felt very well put together. The first is simply iconic though.

Not to quarrel with you, but did you really just say that PSN's online play has been great for years? Were you not using it the several times it got hacked in the past 3 years? Specifically the month it was down because of one of those hacks?

Don't forget they bought Gaikai. With that comes lots of server architecture and people who know how to run it. Sony can build a solid network in time. But honestly, I've not had too much trouble playing online. Assuming they haven't had some catastrophic event (like being hacked or this black friday) the PSN is…

I doubt the PS4 launch in Europe played a big part. There are over 80 million PS3s in the world, and what, 2 million PS4s? A few more? That's not a significant increase in terms of load.

The fact that it happens at all is newsworthy, and should be reported on to make every single person feel sick about the US's fucked up obsession with stuff and consumerism in general.

Alright...

Maybe I didn't get full Black Friday experience with PS4 purchase. It was like... gentelman's race! Seriously. Guys who didn't get the PS4 said: "Well played... I'll get one later..." and people who did were: "Sorry, chap. I wish you'd had one too. If only the store had more of these...".

Kotaku is a blog, not a news outlet. The people who work here are not reporters, they are bloggers. It's not their job to be objective about the things they write about, so it's more than ok for them to say what they think about that stuff.

Ah, you're one of the good ones. :)

I've been reading Kotaku for (almost) ten years. 'To report news' in some utopian computer fashion that no news outlet has ever achieved or even attempted has never been the mission. Even under Gallant it was a combo of exclusive stories, investigative reporting, personal opinion, and sure, just trolling. This is…

Last I checked, there ARE other games on there worth the PS3 experience.

No. Play it on PS3 like you're supposed to.

Real hackers (i.e. white-hats), unite!! Find these idiots and make them pay!

Nah, that's not cynical, that's just being a disk.