posh

that cliffy b article gushing about the virtues of capitalism is horrible garbage. "Yes, there are obvious issues around basic business ethics but that’s not what this blog is about right now" - this is an actual quote

@awesomeusername: you say that like it's simple. at this point, I do need to upgrade my PS3 and having a whole other machine doesn't work well for me since I travel a lot. I did say that the lack of backwards compatibility was at least expected, since they fucked up with that cell processor, but my main problem is with the PSN purchases not carrying over.

the lack of backwards compatibility is a real kick to the balls, but not a surprise. but the fact that PSN purchases won't transfer over to PS4 is unbelievable. don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the PS4 conference and am pretty impressed with the PS4 overall, but stuff like that just makes me really sad

on the other hand it's nice to hear yoshida talk so much about catering to consumers' needs - specifically the fact that he realises privacy is a big issue. not something that should seem at all surprising because good business depends on appealing to consumers, but a lot of big decisions made over the last decade or so have seemed pretty counter-intuitive

they said recently that the mac version was close to being done, but yeah it's pretty annoying how slow they've been. as a game they've billed from the start as "will be available for mac" it's shocking. I paid for that game three months ago

and an Android port

PocketGamer

great news for anybody who played the first one to completion, or I guess anybody who owns an android device

I bid on two copies of persona 4 golden, thinking I'd win neither and it turns out i'm pretty close to winning both. if somebody could bid on this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261170414237?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1426.l2649 that would be great. it comes with the vita skin so that's pretty cool. I'm going to win it in about an hour and 45 minutes

how does the parry system fare overall? in the demo sometimes i had trouble when the geckos were off camera or behind me and i couldn't see the parry prompt, did you encounter any problems with that or the combat in general?

say what you want, 3DS has the best concentration of good titles over both time and quantity

nintenDO what everyone else don't. 3DS confirmed as best console

why not just let things exist exclusively in their own medium. i know the answer is "money" and that lots of people will watch this but it's lazy and money shouldn't be an excuse