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I'm going to do a Kickstarter for Daiktana 2, just to jump the shark/nuke the fridge, and kill this whole fad.

Sony is a technology company on the cutting edge. That is......if the cutting edge is from 2002, before smartphones and tablets and cheap TV's, back when the Playstation brand meant something and both Microsoft & Nintendo wasn't eating their lunch. So, yeah, Sony is a relic with sentimental value, at most.

Nintendo is floundering. The handheld market has been transformed with consumer smartphones since the IPhone, and the console market isn't going to go for another system based solely on shovel ware and remakes (Wii 2). Nintendo can't get by on nostalgia and a gimmicks anymore, and trying to copy smartphone/tablets will make it worse.

Apple should buy Nintendo. They have the money (cash) and it would give the coming Apple TV products a major boost. It would give the IProducts some unique content from talented development studios. Microsoft would also make sense, but less so.

(And, fwiw, I hate Apple's business model and don't currently use the IPhone....just pointing out the best match)

Ultimately, this is just an issue of semantics - what you call a 'beta'.

Google was the first I can remember (off hand) to push out a full product and call it a 'beta', with Gmail, etc.

So I've heard people say Google+ hasn't failed, because it's only in 'beta'.....uh, no. Google+ failed regardless of what state its in now, because viral networks don't get more than one chance to grow. The release status doesn't change perception. What changes it is how CATCHY it is.

The same thing will apply to games. Release it however you want, but if you don't have the core viral-catchiness (that Gmail & Minecraft, etc) have, then you won't go anywhere no matter what you call the release. Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Gold, Release, Mu, Omega....it don't matter.

Get Jennifer Aniston and Ryan Reynolds and turn it into a Romantic Comedy.

The problem is that all these sites rely on a username/password combo, just like every other web site. Users then do the obvious thing -- use the same username/password for every site they visit. As time goes on it gets easier and easier to give out.

We need to start tying security to something like your cell phone. Make it a 3072-bit key, something that should last 20 years, and build NFC into devices (computers / consoles). Then you'd need to have the device in the same room as the machine you are trying to log into before using your username/password.

Keep voting Republican people, this is what happens.

They want small government, when it benefits the corporations. They support freedom, so long as it benefits the corporations. They want to hand everything to corporations.

It's the same with abortion rights. Don't get me wrong, abortion is despicable, but if you are for small government and want the prosecutor's office to review every miscarriage (the only way to possibly stop them).....then you are by no means for small government. Does it benefit big insurance and drug companies? Then they want small government. Hypocrites.

I've never seen a brand go to shit faster than Netflix.

A decade building the brand, and a matter of weeks to drag it through the mud.

Stick with the best brand, and XBOX Live makes more sense than anything else.

@Huey2k2: I really hope this isn't the start of Microsoft's plan to just phase out traditional desktops all together.

Do you think they are crazy? The Metro interface is for tablets, but Windows (for the PC) will still be Windows (for the PC) - just updated. There is no way in heck that they'd give up on Windows (for the PC), because that's what corporations buy and that's a market that makes them billions.

Convergence of the OS.....PC, Tablet, Phone....is a very good thing.

They should sell it for the market price on Ebay.....like 18,000 Points.     Actually, 1200 is high.