Shortbreadtom

The New PlayStation ExperiEnce

The second E in experience is capitalised, to stand for EXCELLENCE

I like the current controller, and I'm pretty sure my PS3 controller has rumble...

At face value this is dog shite of the highest order.

When compared to anything else Star Wars has done over the past forty years, this is middling at worst

Stallone, if only for Cliffhanger.

Everyone who refused to buy DmC this week invested their money elsewhere?

Granted I'm not an American and therefore don't know how much this venture is costing, or where better this money could be going, but I'm glad that this is happening.

But what happens if I put the disembodied torso of a large chested, bikini clad woman on the device? What then Alex?!

Given the fact that the 3DS is still selling like well in all territories, and that the WiiU is outselling what the Wii sold at this time in its cycle, I don't think there's any evidence of Nintendo doing poorly now or in the future. The WiiU will probably sell less than the Wii, but it doesn't have to to be profitable. The average attachment rate for the Wii was less than 2 games a console.

But the 3DS and the WiiU are built and marketed very differently than the Wii. They have a much greater focus on the games rather than the system. Sure, this means they lose out on the "those-who-just-want-Wii-sports" market, but they appeal to the types of people who buy actual games instead. If Nintendo can look past the lower console sales numbers, and properly support the WiiU with good 3rd party content and Nintendo-ass Nintendo games, they could turn a good profit.

Not to mention the fact that, especially in Japan, titles sell consoles. On the 3DS this year loads of franchises known to bump up system sales in Japan are being released, such as Monster Hunter 4 (the last portable MH game on the PSP practically saved that console in Japan) and new Fire Emblem, Animal Crossing and Pokemon games. The WiiU hasn't even got a big Nintendo game on it yet, and is still selling fine.

I don't really see Nintendo changing much in the next 5 years outside of finally moving into proper online support, but maybe I'm just an optimist.

@TaliciaDragonsong: I thought you said Nicholas Gaige, and was then immediately disappointed.

I really want to recommend Planetside 2, because if you get into an outfit and just roll around taking territories with some fun people the game is great. I don't usually like multiplayer games, but few things are as satisfying as pulling up a van full of soldiers, taking out all the defenders and then defending it from hordes of enemies.

Unfortunately, in terms of it being a F2P game, it's terrible. Everything is hidden behind a paywall, with the cheapest gun costing 1000 cert points (to put that into perspective, you get one point for a kill and maybe 2 or 3 for capturing a territory).

I wouldn't mind, but sometimes it's impossible to be helpful with just the basic guns. I, for example, put in 10 dollars but for a while had absolutely no way of taking out planes. My missiles don't have lock on, my helicopters have the weakest machine guns (designed for strafing, not air to air) and my mech doesn't have flak cannons. That meant that at some points, I was no use to my squad. I understand that SOE is attempting to monetise it (and hey, it clearly worked on me) but the best F2P games have a steady trickle of unlocks for free players to get a taste of the game and its systems. Planetside 2... doesn't.