Is it just me, or have they confused theme park with museum?

What gets me is that I understand locking you in the room because you’re tired. You’ve had a BIG DAY. But...surely you could at least make some lockpicks or watch a DVD to unwind while you’re in there...

This is obviously pointless. But I will try one more time.

Again, your Rare example only works if you admit the only way this happens if if NINTENDO SELLS THE RIGHTS. Which is exactly why Rare games can appear on other platforms. Nintendo sold the rights. Nintendo owned them, and the sold them to Microsoft. Which is why Banjo is only on Xbox and not on Playstation. …

Unless someone buys the rights, I really doubt you will see it on a non-Nintendo platform. The publisher holds all rights in 99% of these situations. The developer most likely maintained control of the characters etc, but this particular game belongs to Nintendo.

No way, Nintendo funded that one.

Bayonetta 2 is a second party game. Nintendo definitely has ownership over it.

I’m immediately bothered by the ribbon clipping through her body in the header image.

I think what MS tried to do was interesting. Flawed, but still something we should try to think about going into the future where digital distribution will become the norm, eventually. Maybe another company will take a stab at this and eventually come out with something that will make most people happy.

32.5% sports. Pass.

I have no doubt that he’s being honest, and again, I think he does great work. But Microsoft flying them out for an exclusive PR hardware reveal, complete with marketing copy lines like “Nor can the number of compute units and teraflops represent the passion the Xbox team has injected into this project,” feels a…

Appearances are important, as is avoiding the feeling that you’re there because a company paid for you to be there. Even subconsciously, that can influence your coverage by making you feel grateful to the company for flying you out and putting you up.

Kotaku has a “no junket” policy and does not accept travel from the people we cover. When we go to publisher/developer events, we pay for our own flights and accommodations.

I would just point out even to diehard Sony fans - monopolies are terrible for consumers. If Xbox ceases to be an effective competitor to Playstation, and the Switch remains in its own real niche, there’s no market incentive for Sony to make a better product. The last thing you should want as a Playstation owner is…

While I think there can be games that are good to share, linear story oriented games are not it.

I absolutely agree with Atlus and the content protection laws on this. Streaming the gameplay in a game like this can really hurt sales more than with other types of games.

Those are all good points. Point taken.

Sure. As we all know, launch games tend to be the games that make the best use of the hardware of a new console.