This makes me feel sad. There's genuine projects (games or otherwise) that people put effort into that won't get funded the money they need or deserve, but something stupid like this will because it's riding on the coattails of a new fad. I shake my head in disgust.

The difference is that Sony and Microsoft already do a lot to support third-party developers, and for the most part share the same titles. I absolutely agree that it would be great for Microsoft and Sony to make all of their games multiplatform. Meanwhile, Nintendo fans seem somehow convinced that multiplatform is…

Uh, you're saying that you predict Nintendo would stop producing good games if they went multiplatform. You are indeed showing a lack of faith in their abilities and talents.

That sunk cost is what's keeping a lot of people from trying out new Nintendo games in the first place. I know I'm still going to hold off getting a WiiU because of that initial investment. But if all of these new titles were available on PC? Boom, I'd easily be picking up some of those titles.

It seems like Nintendo fans have very little faith in Nintendo if going multiplatform means the likely demise of everything Nintendo fans hold dear.

I don't follow. If it's the exact same developers under Nintendo were making the game, why the heck would multiplatform make the games generic and gritty looking?

Well, first of all, that's the problem! You people keep segregating yourselves. Why do you need special bars, websites and convention. You don't see me going around and demanding special rights and my own not-gamer convention!

Look here, pal. I pay my taxes like any other person, one leg at a time.

You know that people are not really game-o-phobic, they just don't want to have to acknowledge they exist. What with people shoving the gamer lifestyle down their throats and making them click on links and read them.

Stop with the bullshit panhandling. If you really give a shit about women's rights, you would be fighting where it actually matters. If the developers were actually sexist and not just appealing to a demographic, because, you forget, this is a business, go for it, but your muckraking is just cheapening the struggle of…

And the fact that this has now been upgraded to a "controversy" boggles my mind.

The thing about that argument that bothers me the most is that you don't have to have draconian drm and always online policies to have steam like sales. You can just have the fucking sales. Period. It's not like having this persistent online system is the key to unlocking low prices. The key to lower prices are making…

And here come the blind scum that defend Microsoft's always-on DRM from E3 2013. You know, the ones that can see the future and claimed that if we hadn't gnashed our teeth, the Xbox Live marketplace would have the prices and practices of Steam by now.

And again, I don't have a problem with things not changing. Showing how things are the same is not in any way a threat, you have to show evidence how things could be better, and it seems most of us here don't see motion controls as providing any kind of better future. If anything, trying to ram motion controls down…

You keep mentioning 'nothing will change' as if that's inherently bad, when in fact change is neutral. A future of gaming that doesn't shove motion controlled games down developers and users throats is a future I can easily live with. Do you think we constantly need to be reinventing the wheel and push novelty for…

The greater good? That sounds awfully subjective to me. I think you mean for the good of people who want motion controls in games. For people who favor traditional control schemes, it's better to get consoles cheaper and to have less development resources squandered on motion games.

The only good defense of the Kinect ive seen is "voice control" But why do we need a 100$ camera for that? Why not a built in mic with the controller? Or built into the console itself? Even with full support from Microsoft i still dont think any good games would be made for the thing. Its a nice idea but its clearly…

QUOTE | "It's always struck me as a little odd how resentful players are in the F2P business model about paying a couple dollars when they don't think twice about paying $50 for the same amount of fun or gameplay time." - Veteran designer Steve Meretzky, talking about the evolution of free-to-play games.

QUOTE | "It's always struck me as a little odd how resentful players are in the F2P business model about paying a couple dollars when they don't think twice about paying $50 for the same amount of fun or gameplay time." - Veteran designer Steve Meretzky, talking about the evolution of free-to-play games.

My respect for NPR just got that much higher. The responses to the commenters and the obvious troll posts are what makes this pure gold.