Microsoft quite clearly cares what the competition is doing given how many policies they've reversed recently based on what Sony is doing.

I mean, I agree that they were proud of it, but they were also very bullish too. There wasn't a whole lot of modesty there, and a lot of that pride was incredibly misguided. They wanted Cell processors in TVs, refrigerators, every appliance in the house so they could all somehow work together, but the Cell processor…

I don't know. This doesn't seem like a terrible idea. Just because it's goofy product placement doesn't make it immediately terrible. I think it's kind of funny watching Drake run to collect Coke Zero orbs or whatever. Maybe he's really thirsty.

There's a huge difference between Jack breaking out into an honest grin because the crowd has been applauding for a straight 30 seconds and Ken announcing "599 US dollars" to silence. Remember when Sony was saying stuff like, "We want you guys to go out and get a second job for this system"? They were insane. I'm…

Listen, I'm a guy that bought a PS3 pretty close to launch and absolutely loves it, but even I can admit that they were smug assholes when they announced it.

Weird, it's almost like I wasn't comparing the two systems at all.

I have more incredible games on my Vita than time to play them. It's one of my favorite systems of all-time at this point.

I've actually gotten to the point where I won't settle for that. I want new franchises from Nintendo. The reason why I'm not buying a Wii U isn't because Mario Kart isn't out yet; it's because I've already played Mario Kart already. Several times.

Tomorrow's story: "Microsoft confirms that you don't need a Gold account to use Game DVR."

In saying "nope," I was agreeing with you.

I'm kind of tired of the reliance on GIFs at Kotaku, so I'm OK with the PS4 not exporting them directly. I will say though that I really like that the official screenshots for Luftrausers and Galak-Z are animated GIFs. Shows some real confidence in their games.

Because I live with girls who will judge the shit out of me for playing that because of the embarrassing female character designs. I'd rather just get it on Vita.

Nope. I have more awesome Vita games than time to play them all.

Sorry to hear that. :(

The stuff he says about consumables making the game easier sounds more like a return to Demon's Souls. I used to have hundreds of consumable health items in my inventory that made dying and retrying more manageable. Taking that out in Dark Souls for the Estus Flask actually made the game harder even though people…

Yeah I tried to go back to GTA IV a while back and man... it's rough now. Crazy how that happens.

Well said. It's really disheartening to watch everybody flock back over to the Xbox for essentially no reason. I don't understand how they win brownie points with people by backpedalling on bad policies. Yeah, those bad policies aren't in place anymore, but why does that make it OK? The PS4 never had those policies…

Nah.

What happened to this being about knights slaying dragons?

Yeah, that's what I really like about the PS3-to-Vita Remote Play and why I'm really excited for PS4 where it'll be for all games. I really love being able to play full games while out of my house.