Darlan

Bwmop bwomp. It's hard to get excited, but I guess at some point I'll feel like picking some of these up on the super cheap or in some Humble bundle or something.

I'd really just like to pick up a Vita on the super cheap this Black Friday, but it seems like hardly anyone is carrying the thing anymore. There may be about zero upcoming games for it, and not many true exclusives worth getting excited about, but I'd still love a portable Spelunky/Binding of Issac/Persona 4 machine.

Bloodborne is one of my most anticipated games, but this is just as well; I don't know how on earth I could have gotten to Witcher III and Bloodborne in the same month.

Ubisoft is just helping you make sensible purchasing decisions! No one should be spending that kind of money on a yearly update when there's stuff like steam sales, Shadow of Mordor, and the Witcher III to be had instead. Thanks, Ubisoft! You make it so easy to not buy your stuff! How very thoughtful.

Hooray for free Binding of Issac! Always wanted to play it with a proper controller setup. (I know, I know, joy2key and whatnot, it's not the same.) Also, I like this article format for these announcements, thanks Patrick.

I wonder if Infinity Ward sees this as their future--put out as many Call of Dutys as possible until they burn out, then spend their time working on DLC on the next big thing until their studio finally closes. Activistion seems like a really depressing place; these franchises could last so much longer if they gave them a chance to breath more.

Great read! I've been waiting for Spelunky to go on a Steam sale ever since the Spelunk'n with Scoops feature started...here's hoping we don't have to wait until the next winter sale for it to happen again.

Edit: Not that it doesn't look like it's worth fifteen bucks, Steam has just trained me to expect a game to go on sale for like nothing the day after you give in and buy it for full price.

I sure seems like they paid for exclusivity and I trust Patrick's reporting, but in the interest of discussing things I suppose there is another possible incentive for iOS exclusivity: just avoiding the android piracy rates for the first few months, much like how Ubisoft delays their PC releases.

That price plus the DRM on physical media puts the Xbox One squarely into the "do not purchase" category for me. If Sony has the same price and the same DRM restrictions, it looks like I'll be settling with a WiiU/PC combo this generation. I also wasn't too impressed with the general visuals...sure, there was some stuff that looked like it just barely couldn't be done on current gen consoles, but nothing that really screamed "the new generation is here!" In fairness, the PS4 will probably have the same problem there, games are just already too expensive to make on current gen hardware, let alone a step up.

Here's hoping KOTOR III is possible after TOR didn't do so well...hopeful cooler heads will prevail and they'll look at KOTOR I and the similar Mass Effect games for sales projections instead.