Hrmm, I don't know. Its going to be hard to shake my first impression enough to watch it, but your post has gone a long way in convincing me.

I am sorry, I meant my comment to be targeting not specifically you, it just happened that your comment was the last of many that I read today where PC gamers seem to think that us console gamers "just cant afford a PC" and we are sluming it with a console, when that couldnt be further from the truth. I didnt mean to…

I usually like Disney movies but all the trailers and previews I have seen of Frozen have me avoiding it like the plague. It looks like Disney toned down the drama and cranked up the cheese. The whole snowman and moose? interaction on the previews is just so cheesetastic...

I don't understand why PC gamers continue to think that price is the reason why console gamers choose a console. I would choose a console over a PC if it were 2x the price of the highest end beast machines. I choose a console for many, many, reasons, price has never been one of them. Don't lump all console gamers into…

I don't much mind developers releasing on both generations of consoles, what I hate is when a great game is coming only to last gen.

If you write story first and then wrap gameplay around that you run into the exact same issue you had before, just from the other side. Now you have to write gameplay that makes your story make sense. I would rather have (for most games) a halfassed story and amazing gameplay then an amazing story and halfassed…

Xbox 360 uses DVD9 so they have roughly 9 GB per disc compared to the 50 GB of the PS3/PS4/Xbox One.

It could be that it was their plan, but they thought that the fight at "home" (in the USA) would be swift and decisive in their favor.

As far as development, Japan produces a number of major franchises and has some huge developers. Remember its the home of Sony and Nintendo (two of the big three), so its a huge gaming market. The less footprint they have in Japan, the less likely they are to get these games.

I understand the marketing reasons behind it, but it is still a flawed system that would be almost entirely fixed by eliminating the level metric. I realize its not possible (or at least not viable) to have rankings for games based on their difficulty, but a level system like we have now does indeed devalue the more…

But it devalues more difficult games trophies. We are (supposed to) have a "relative difficulty rating" system with the three levels of trophies, and a real difficulty rating system with the rarity values of each trophy, but the level metric completely undermines this whole system. The level itself is not the…

I disagree completely. You can still get trophies (so games still have additional replay value, and the feeling of accomplishment) and you can still compare each game with friends. So eliminating the level/gamerscore portion of this system (especially since we have global trophy rarity now, so you can compare each…

I love the trophy/achievement system (and won't play a game without them) but I think the level/gamerscore "value" is lame, so I would much rather they just eliminate it entirely. Some games are insanely hard to get even the easiest trophies while other games hand out platinums for just playing the game, so any kind…

I want it for my PS4 but reading the mediocre reviews I will likely wait for the first major price drop (maybe $40?).

Well this was just a general observation that doesn't specifically have to do with the online shutdown. I didn't even know the Wii had online functionality, and I own one. It could be as simple as keeping it going for the few people that knew about it and used it, was not cost effective.

Well its obvious that something is wrong, and its a simple answer with a not so simple solution.

Sony already promised it would. Sony said that like the PS1 and the PS2, the PS3 would have at least 10 years of active support. The same thing they said about the PS4. Sony has always supported their last gen actively for a few years into their next gen, but seeing as how the developers are using their own servers,…

PS3 doesn't require PS+ for online play, so Sony is not obligated to do anything of the sort. Yet I doubt that the online services for the free online of the PS3 will be shut down within the next 5 years. Personally, other than one single game (FFXIV), I don't play games online, so I have no dog in this fight, but…

Well remember that the PS3 doesnt charge for online services. So they have no monetary incentive to keep the servers active, but I would be surprised if the online infrastructure got shut down for the PS3 within the next 5 years. You can still play some PS2 games online even (granted there was not really much of an…

This would make sense, and if they came out and said something like that "Hey we are upgrading out online infrastructure and the Wii/DS is not going to be able to be on this new service so is not going to be supported" sounds a lot better than what most people are thinking which is "We have no incentive for you to…