If it's anything like Youtube the brunt of downloads will be coming from word-of-mouth anyway, and not as much from whatever advertising the XNA community decides to pull off. Review scores and such might end up being off, but I think in most cases you'll still be able to discern between a dog and an actual game by looking at purchase rates and such.

Still waiting on that GT Portable I bought this thing for. What's it been now, 3 years?

5 bucks that this guy was sending these to his buds for some night-time Airsofting fun.

Does "always" only refer to the reigning period of the Playstation? I'm sure most of us can name quite a few Nintendo/SNES games not made by Nintendo that were wild, major hits.

Famitsu has been notoriously PS-pushy, and I wouldnt be surprised in the slightest bit if this was just something to make them fall for the bait and actually keep releasing FF13 articles. Titles like Vesperia have gotten considerably less coverage ever since they announced the game's not going to be a PS3 exclusive.

Hope I get a break when they start the squeenix presser.

But if I was in the area... and didn't have a job tethering me...

* Grammatical discrepancies between languages. Just keep going down the line with whatever they're saying and converting it to another language, and you'll end up with a hodgepodge of dialogue and text. Editing this is necessary (and most likely does occur), but it'll prevent a game from being directly translated.

* Culture-specific terms. If a company translated a certain dialogue to, say, "would you like some 'bubuzuke'?" would you or anyone else not versed in Kyoto's workaround to letting people know they're not welcome understand the dialogue? Probably not, and that line would have to be modified somehow (and the lines around it) to make everything fit.

Am I missing something here?

@ObZen: It hasn't been a significant problem for the newer batch with HDMI and all, despite what the scary scary internet fudzillas would like to tell you.

@Gitaroo_Dude: loltroll

* Games are only one of Sony's business ventures. The overall games business for Sony saw huge losses last yr, but their profits were at a record high. Why? Because they're an electronics company first and foremost.

* Sony promised to shareholders that they WILL turn a profit this year. Since they already admitted (in a previous shareholder meeting) that they are STILL selling PS3s at a loss, and plan to for the forseeable future (or at least this fiscal year), decreased prices mean more losses that they have to cover up with game title sales. Fund managers were really after SCE's plans on how they are going to turn a profit this year on the last few meetings, save the last meeting when they announced PS Life among others -- don't know whether that's because they were satisfied with the plans to turn a profit from 'non-game' sectors or just gave up on the idea. With long-time viability in question now that Nintendo's top dog again, it's questionable whether they'll take kindly to another year's worth of loss.

Hope this version of Sole Survivor turns out to be more gameworthy than Assassin's Creed was.

I may have to get a iPhone after all, though i may wait till someone makes a 2ch browser for it.

Jane Touch is nice but it is down too often (like right now)

This concept just boggles my mind. Exclusives for both sides have gone multiplat in the past, from forgettables like gundam musou to high rated titles like bioshock. Surely theres the chance that other titles will make the switch as well, but for now I think the future is riding a lot on performance of the first ports coming to the ps3 -- if eternal sonata ps3 sells well the jrpg scene for the console will probably improve significantly. Why you ask? Because it'll show that relatively new ip can sell on the ps3, and that people are willing to buy hugely delayed games that are already in the bargain bin for the competing console.

My Ipod is 99% imas songs, but the PC still has some less important songs in the playlist.

The seats fetching these insane prices right now are only the front row seats, btw. I got help from a buddy to get some tickets, we're on the front end of the second floor which means it'll be a little far away but will actually have a better view than most people on the 1st floor.

If people start making honest death threats or something serious of that sort, it may be time to start locking people up, but I'm not quite sure anything of that sort will come out on a forum where user names are visibile and their user history apparent.

Friends who got it tell me it's an awesome game as long as it's a private match (to prevent ranked matchers going all out to respawn kill the other team once the tide turns over) though. I mean, the game might suck but it's still a 5on5 Gundam match that doesn't cost 500 yen per play and a few hours wait between each game (apparently that's how popular the arcade 4-16player gundam game Senjou no Kizuna is). Kinda pisses me off that I'm stuck at a job site and unable to pick up packages; if I could I'd have gotten the game myself to revel in the shittiness.

You may be returning that $50 by the time you start buying games, but you're still saving 50 bucks. Or does the $249 price point of the Wii not matter because you have to buy extra remotes and chucks for multiplayer before it becomes a useful device? Is the $399 price point of a PS3 ridiculous because it doesn't pack in a vibrating controller?

Yet another countdown timer, telling me I need to go to bed.

Would be really cool if it turns out to be some sort of always-on flipdown menu that you can use in conjunction w/ your controller though.