The problem is asking people to pay $500 for a new piece of hardware—8 years after the previous version—To play the same native resolution in their games. That's just absurd.

This is something oft-forgotten. HD-DVD may never have had what looked like some kind of edge in that format war but in 2006-7 it was a media format that got actual retail releases.

Came here to post this. Thank you.

I really don't want to sound like "that guy" who is all sensitive about the topic, but I just wanted to say that a pray I never see a[n accidental] political clickbait article on Kotaku ever again. It's only clickbait coincidentally since it wasn't written with the intent to start any arguing.

For their part, online retailer Amazon has said that they'll honor Watch Dogs bundle preorders, though they haven't said if customers who preordered bundles will just get their consoles, or if they'll get the console along with some sort of voucher or substitute game.

This place needs a webcam of some sort. And/Or a YouTube channel of adorable clips.

A patch, or something needed to make the game work at all? Day 1 patches are normal but I know the Forza download is the bulk of the game content. GT the same? Hrm, that's trouble since Sony has never put out a physical disc game that required an internet connection for basic functions.

On the bright side, it'll probably still have a free PS+ version when it comes out. Until at least late 2014 Sony is going to have to get creative and generous with the PS+ lineup.

Serves a possible practical purpose! A way to help authenticate something as official hardware? It'd be fairly obnoxious to replicate perfectly, though that's not going to stop any one.

Yeah, that's just it putting a mark on your location. The actual location are little blue marker things with the PS logo. Unless a regional piano supplier is a Sony retail outlet.

Tip: If you have a PS-branded Sony headset with a volume mix slider, moving it completely to "Game" mutes all player audio. Since you can't do this in the GUI for some damn reason it's single-handedly saved my sanity online.

This is why I usually keep away from online play entirely. Any game. I guess I'm just getting old since I sure as hell don't remember having that kind of vocabulary at such a young age, to say nothing of using any of it with overt malice. My parents would rightfully have grounded me indefinitely for a lot of this…

It's not Kotaku's fault that Microsoft has run one ongoing PR clusterfuck since the Xbone was announced.

I could give-or-take their adverts all over extreme sports stuff, but when it comes to the big budget stuff like this and their unbeatable Formula One team Red Bull knows how to put on a hell of a show.

FFXV will be first, is Square-Enix's official company line. I'm assuming they're pushing for it out holiday 2014 or spring 2015 so they'll get to add that revenue in their FY2015 numbers. That or late 2015 which is a sad thought. Assume they'd want to put a release of another signature series in a different fiscal…

You're entirely correct. It's always been my assumption that the crew appearing in Disney worlds has always been at the "just-before-the-final-boss part of the setting".

Sony has messed around with console <-> PC a bit and as far as I'm concerned it's voodoo to sync it all up. It can't be easy. The feature would be welcomed on any platform, of course!

On paper I'll confess that sounds neat, but you'd instantly be going into all sorts of continuity problems. That is, unless Sora is somehow a Jedi in which case why has he not been using that power since forever ago?

"I’m not allowed to leak things [smiles]", he said. "But I think what you’re talking about makes a lot of sense."

I'd be okay with spinoffs exploring this stuff, but keep it out of the "main series" PLEASE. For something to be epic enough to finally get a "III" tag means a lot in and of itself.