ExplodeMode

I bought my house from someone else, think of all those poor construction workers that didn't get to build a new one.

Why are video game bloggers the biggest corporate apologists on earth?

Possibly, but publishers go where the audience is. If they were all about a DRM and cd-key mandate every game of the last 5 years would have been a PC exclusive. But they weren't, because the bulk of the audience was on consoles.

If Sony were to not do this and everyone bought into PS4, the publishers would go PS4, because they don't get to say where the market is.

I really wish more than just the MMOs used this classic style. I'd play a SP game that looked like this in a heart beat. The monthly fee part makes it a hard sell, but I still want to want it.

PS4: $450 with Sony selling them at a fat loss.

The Bone: $399 with Microsoft also selling at a loss, but a much smaller loss.

I don't think having standards counts as a boycott.

Even if he's right, he's wrong.

I already dislike the 360 for charging for things they had no business charging for, but now add locking games to accounts and using online verification on top of that and there's no way I will support it. Dangle any games they want in front of me at E3, I don't care.

If Sony were to do the same, I wouldn't buy a PS4 either. They are taking away one of the only things consoles have over PC.

Not saying a lack of interest is impossible for next gen, but I don't think late gen console stagnation is much proof. I think this is just the way it tends to go.

It's one of the reasons that new machines get made. People can't stay interested forever and need to excited by new -- and this gen has gone on for a long time. And unlike last gen the prices haven't dropped. PS2 game MSRP at this point was $40.

I also think the quality of the average game has gone up over the past 5 years (I know there is a case for a loss of quality at other levels, but on average I think it's raised) so there is a wider selection of decent stuff for $10-20 which makes $60 looks terrible.

What I'm saying is that I can't think of one reason why they shouldn't be declining right now. And that it probably isn't indicative of the next cycle.

Also, a lot of current Wii U problems were perfectly predicted before it ever launched. If you go back and read through old stuff from a year ago you will seeing people after their E3 talking about what a muddied message it was and how they aren't capturing that same ease of use audience and how all of the touted 3rd party support was just a lot of ports of things you already had. I'm not seeing much of that for the PS4 and I doubt we will see a lot of it for the new Xbox either.

I still don't know. But that video leaves a better impression than I had.

The game looks like more of the same. I liked SR3 enough, but I don't think it will play as well a second time without a lot of growth.

Add to that, that we know it started as an expansion and it seems to be rushing to beat GTA to market with a new publisher that might just be looking for a quick return.

You can see pieces of a potentially bad product.

EA funding an exclusive? I wouldn't bet on that until it was official.