Wierd thing i just came to think about.
I really miss the times when i was a broke student and had to play every game i bought to shreds before buying a new one. I look at my achievements now, and i have an average of 130(!). And that really reflect how i play games.
I now own my own gamesstore and i play ALOT of games, allso to be able to give an hones opinion to my customers, but i end up playing a game for one night after work, and maybe a game sticks with me so i play it over the weekend. But this means i rarely manage to see a game trough.
So allthough i have acces to most games, for most consoles at any time, working 130% due to running a store so i can have access to the games has seriously cramped my gaming...  

There are many things i'd like to say about GT5, and it's a great game! But maybe a bit too "great"? 
To quote Jeremy Clarkson on some car he talked about. "It's like Scarlet Johanson, it's so pretty that you wouldn't know what to do with it, you'd rather just sit back and admire it". 
 
And i think thats the problem, its so pretty and well made, its Jay Leno's wet dream, but in terms of pure fun, it never quite reaches where Forza 3 took its franchise with Community services such as marketplace where you can sell cars, setups etc.  
This also made Forza more approchable for the masses i think since you could just buy a good setup, a cool paint job of a lolcat and be the most casual racer ever, in a quite passionate racing game. 
 
I think the decals in Forza added loads of personality aswell. 
 
So as of now i am really enjoying GT5, but its got a job to do. It should get some tattoo's and piercings before having a knife fight with Forza, and the GT5 that emerges will be fantastic =P 

I just read this article on gamasutra explaining how the iPhone is one of the most selling mobile gaming platforms. I think there are several reasons, but mostly i think that Apple got alot of things right,

Just feeling that no matter where i go i'm hearing stuff about, "Man, i shount have spendt 600NOK (85,5$)on that game! it was over in 8 hours!". But seriously, take Cod 4 as the perfect example, ok, most people buy it for the online part. I havent been so fortunate due to a crappy ISP provider. but i bought it, played the singleplayer and it was SO worth it! It was damn short, but oh man, so many epic moments, and it wins on the same points as the movie Crank, for those of you who have seen it. It just never stopts throwing action in your face untill its over. So lets put a price on constatnt entertainment.

We have one movie and one game, CoD 4 (wich i spendt about 9h on (yeah, i got stuck by the stupid bumpercars :P )
and crank, at 1h27min to be exact. Crank's fullprice was 179,90(25,6$) and cod 4 was 599,90(85,5$).
I will do this small calculation in dollars for you:

Cranks price: 25,6, divided by playtime: 87minutes gives you 0,29$ of entertainment per minute.
CoD4's price 85,5 divided by playtime 540minutes gives you 0,16$ of entertainment per minute.

SO as you can see, a "short" videogame is alot cheaper than a fullprice movie. the game has to be 4 hours or shorter for it to be more expencive. Think about that before you start complaining about not getting your moneys worth in videogames.

And by the way, i find the shelf of games that i actually have completed alot more appealing to look at than the ones i havent completed.

Norwegian game prices have for a long time been very much leveled out with a max price of 599,90NOK (83,89$) but much implies that Killzone2 will be the first of many games to reach a pricepoint above 600, and most likely set the standard at 649,90NOK (90,88$). Since the euro has been strong for quite some time now, it means that Nordisk film who distribute products from SCEE in norway has to buy their products for a higher price affecting the market. And the trend will most likely affect other distributors as well.

What worries me is the psychological boundary when regular games pass over the 600NOK mark and how this will affect prices in the future, even with a better economy.