Why do you think we pay $60 for a new game? Entertainment? Its the modern day Rosetta Stone!

i would buy this for my sons 2DS in a heartbeat but its too late to make the WiiU interesting.

Other than Mario 64 (which is awesome) I don't like any of the 3D Mario games. Its likely the controller rather than the actual content though.

That's not entirely true. If a game or app updates, then it pushes it to the front of the list. I have had Sonys Music/Video apps pushed to the front a few times (and I have never used them) and currently Share Factory and the new video category occupy slot 2 and 3 of my list although I have never used either. The…

The PS4 really needs a similar mechanic. Having every single game on a single massive horizontal list is just a pain. That horizontal list should be a list of "pins", which you should be able to add from the Library. Please Sony, do this!

Not at all. It irritates me thinking about the amount of developer man hours, and hardware they have likely dedicated to working on this ridiculous feature and will continue to in the future. Just seeing how the 1.70 update, our first massive update, was almost exclusively related to this, when so many more…

I should clarify that I have not gotten more than an hour or two into a GTA game because of the issues listed. So as far as the story goes, if it "starts to get better halfway through the game" that doesnt matter to me, because I could not stand the game to play that far. I wish that they did not have online trophy…

I have played a few GTAs, the story is forgettable (I did not really feel like there was much of a story at all), the combat was really bad (car combat even worse), driving mechanics were pretty bad too (I don't expect realism, but these were pretty bad). Granted I haven't played all of the GTAs, the last one I…

I would say that GTA is extremely mediocre (and I think its complete garbage) yet WD looks extremely interesting and is a game I plan on getting as soon as I can.

While I agree 100% with the need to guide people to what's best for them, I disagree with you that motion controls are the best path. They are fun in a very very limited context, a gimmick the rest of the time. They should never, ever, be a primary means of input.

I just never buy used, problem solved!

The battle mode was the only thing I liked about Mario Kart (loved it), so of course Nintendo had to go and ruin it. Though to he fair the last one I played was on GC.

True, though as you said this does not preclude you from picking it up day one, or pre-ordering (You can pre-order online for most major stores, and still pick it up at a local shop, and it doesn't charge until the day of. Plenty of time to cancel if previews you trust say its garbage.).

I agree with the sentiment, but major publishers will not make anything if people dont buy it. If everyone sits around waiting for someone else to buy it first, then no copies would be sold. It doesnt matter if its the best game of this generation, or the worst, if no one buys it.

So if everyone did the same thing, no game would sell because everyone would be waiting for trusted friends and family to buy first. Its a chicken and egg situation. In order for you to be able to do that, others have to buy the game based on PR and the online reviews you scoff at.

Until Sony and MS start offering physical discs on their console storefront I will always buy my games from vampires like GameStop. If they stop physical all together, well I have been gaming since 1985, but I would stop in a heartbeat. No hesitation

It would be orders of magnitude more expensive. It was estimated that it costs Sony approx $3 per month, per user for "online" and that they just ate the cost last generation. Since we pay $3-$5 per month for PS+, it covers that cost, and just a little bit more (if you got it at a discount, it likely just covers the…

Just because a non PS+ member cant buy a $10 version, does not make it any less true. Its what makes it confusing, but the fact is you are buying an upgrade DLC pack, not getting a discounted version. The fact is this is the first game where they have given you a part of it free, which is where the confusion comes…

Actually this was always the case. Some news sites may have falsely advertised it (or forgot to mention the details), but they were always clear that it was a limited version.

Except this has been the PS+ policy since day one, its no secret. You lose access to free games when you are no longer a member, even if you bought DLC for it, even if that DLC costs $50. You are not getting a discount for $50, you are getting a DLC upgrade pack.