It just seems a rather fake way of increasing the difficult level.

Your shitty notebook that you can't even figure out how to run steam on?

...most people don't need or want backwards compatibility

But that is what innovation is, new features that drive customer demand. If there is no customer demand, there is no innovation, and the new features are just an invention. Human perception is a large part of innovation.

Yeah that is a bit over the top. you can just attack a usb hard drive, or use a network share.

The real question you should be asking is will the ps4 run any of those games? There is a good chance that those games will be running in an emulator on a PC long before they run on the ps4.

With all the high end stuff removed this thing still clocks at about 4x the ps3, so it is a device more on par with the upcoming ps4. The real question is how much will the ps4 be at launch? I only use my ps3 for Wipeout and Netflix, and Sony closed the studio that made Wipeout. I for one would seriously consider…

Starts at 499$.

Oh cool, because PC gaming has no used games space whatsoever.

I guess a better question would be why turn permadeath on if you are going to just reload to avoid permadeath? It just seems odd to me.

Sure it is slightly more expensive then a comparable beige box custom built PC using whatever lowball parts you can get from new egg or ebay, but how are you in any way chained to steam with the Piston? It is a general purpose computer, you can use any software you want on it.

You can argue whatever you want, but obviously it is not as innovative as Nintendo hoped. Hence the reason they lowered their earning projections.

Do you even know what is inside there? Imagine playing The Elder Scrolls Online, on 2 different TVs, with one player using an xbox controller, one a playstation controller, and both having their own wireless keyboards and mice.

The advantage the steam box has over consoles is that it is modular - you can buy replacement and upgrade parts, and as time goes on newer more powerful parts will become available. Next month I think it is the 4 and 8 gig APUs are to be released. And because it is a general purpose computer you can use any USB…

In case you did not notice, 'that shit' is a PC, and 'prolly has better specs then the one you are using right now.

The war on preowned games, Lik-Sang & the war on imported games, the war on homebrew and cutting support for features like other-OS, removing backwards compatibility, that whole month of PSN downtime, the NGE.

It starts at $499.00. You can preorder it right now.

you can order one right now, $499.00 with out the high end stuff.

100% confirmed... you can preorder it right now... $499.00 without all the high end gear.

It is, and you can.