@Invisible-Echidna: It is your love of buttons on traditional controllers! Long live tradition!

@theamazingpete: You just blew my mind. I believe it is indeed a frog.

I really really really want to pull a Jurassic Park with this thing and have it eat the Steve Irwin and the Japanese whaling vessels. It just seems the only fitting finale Whale Wars could have.

@EdgarJPublius: All this talk of sustainability this and organic farming that. I always want to know why nobody takes an old parking structure, installs some full spectrum lighting and either grows crops hydroponic(ally?) or rolls in a few feet of soil dredged out of a river. I mean you would technically be…

I think the Nintendo sign on the building should be red but not illuminated or if illuminated it should be illuminated with lights behind the lettering so the letters are outlined. However, it is incredible that Nintendo is keen with being low key.

@astidcrisse: but Bin Laden uses metric! If we switch the terrorists win because they can finally understand our units of measure OH NOES!

@astidcrisse: Ah in the US km/h is usually smaller in cars.

@nantukoprime: "I got three units of measurement on the side of a sturdy, chemically neutral container."

Hey now, let's not get too hasty about saying alien spacecraft are not vulnerable to viruses. Perhaps they too have developed advanced x86 technology or the like and managed to catch a stray signal carrying an OS... say Windows and pirated it!

I thought they incredible had 8GB flash memory built in and the microSD would support up to a 32GB card meaning 40GB total storage... or is there an ARM/Android limitation here I'm unaware of?

@Lazerbyte: I'm going to feed the troll here and assume you're talking about the PS3 Bluetooth controllers, though it may be Wii you're talking about I can't tell you went off the rails.

@Fexe: The new console sports 802.11n which has a theoretical throughput of up to 600Mbit/sec speed (my WiFi-N devices are usually around 130Mbit/sec and I use several WiFi-G devices slowing down my throughput) so unless the new console sports a Gigabit ethernet connection (1000Mbit/sec) and you have a badass ethernet…

How do you make sure 3D games are "well-realized" Games are rendered in real time (sans cut-scenes) so all 3D will do is give the image greater depth. The only thing that will change is some of the underlying math that controls the apparent depth of objects in the foreground/background.

@KingArkon: "Gamers" will continue to ignore mo-cap and motion controls and continue using controllers. It's going to be the next iteration of contoller vs mouse/keyboard.

I imagine current online multi-player games will continue to be free but we'll see a slow erosion of games that don't require a PSN+ subscription. Call it a hunch. But hey I'm still bent on losing Linux support so if you want to wear rose colored glasses and believe the current PR go ahead!

Why does it matter?

I feel like the bottom line is touch screens have limited applications in gaming. It makes sense with card, board, and strategy games but beyond that it seems very limited.

@nzapster: I suspect that's a build of WebKit since Chrome and Safari are both derivatives.

@Tenacious_ADG: I think Sony has decided that the number of people trying to (or succeeding) to pirate media (games/movies/whatever they encrypt) out number legit users. Unfortunately I have a feeling this move will only lead to more people trying to use it for piracy.

@shinkukage09: Eh the fact is you can damn near run Linux on a toaster... It has the most dedicated base of hackers conceivable and no security system will ever completely lock them out.