I am blown away that MS is going through with essentially blocking used games. Forget about not showing off enough games in their meeting and focusing too much on entertainment apps. Blocking used games is the tangible, unbelievable, insane difference that will absolutely crush MS if Sony doesn't follow suit. This is that tangible difference that is actually significant enough to cause people to switch loyalties. It's really amazing.

I was not very impressed at all. I was secretly hoping for some sort of secret breakthrough in kinect technology and virtual reality gaming or something big like that. What it boiled down to was a pretty cool entertainment box for controlling your TV, and probably a little bit better social integration with your TV than the WiiU, and 15 yet to be named exclusive games.

The big partnership with the NFL may be pretty misleading because it means nothing if they don't get the contract for Sunday Ticket that they didn't mention.

Ultimately I don't care about waving my arms around to control things, I'd rather press a button, and I think Sony has better focus on the gamers this time.

I think the big thing that Microsoft is missing is off-tv play. Sony and Nintendo both have it figured out. I don't need something that recognizes my arms waving around, I need to be able to still play my games if the wife and kids are using the TV.

best joke on Twitter from Gamasutra: "Someone in the audience should have yelled 'Xbox, Play Games!'"

@neumaus @get2sammyb I am definitely a home that would benefit from remote play. More and more the only time I have for gaming is in the evening when we're already in bed. And my backlog just sits in my ps3 downstairs in the living room crying out to me.

Yeah it's hard to beat .99 cents if there's any fun to have out of it at all.

Lately Sony has been running commercials for the whole SEN on ESPN. Showing off the psn store and music unlimited mainly.

I voted for Sin City. I think that would work really well. Especially with the technology of someone like Quantic Dream for the characters.

Yeah good move. I'm not sure if I'll preorder yet though... Hopefully there will be some early reviews.

@rjejr I agree. I think their wording using words like "virtually" and "your favorite" is sufficiently vague as well. And especially Yoshida saying he'll be "heartbroken if it doesn't make it into all launch games". None of these quotes inspire confidence in me that Sony isn't pulling my leg again. Wake me up when someone says. "I guarantee that remote play will work with all ps4 games except where the playstation move is required. Don't even worry about it, it's guaranteed, that's simply what the ps4 does, there's no doubt about it." None of this "I sure hope remote play works with most games".

This would be a nice one for remote play to work

They basically lied about remote play with ps3 prelaunch, so I can't help but play wait and see.

Call me a pessimist, but I still won't believe it until I see it. Still doesn't feel guaranteed to me.

Implementing a regular update time and making your download list more manageable are my two biggest things.
I've managed to figure out the new store pretty well, so it's not like I ever have any trouble finding what I'm looking for. And my store actually opens pretty quick now, and hasn't crashed on me or anything since launch week of the new store.

But I think what they need to work on is making it a better browsing experience to find things I'm NOT looking for. Correctly categorizing all games into genres and providing "most downloaded" and "highest rated" lists for all genres and really keeping that stuff up to date would be nice. They should also fix the rating system. I should be able to rate digital version of full games that I own on disc, and people should have to play a game for 30 minutes or an hour before their allowed to rate it. And include user reviews as well. And I also agree that the purchase process needs streamlining. They fixed the ridiculous process for free ps+ content to where you just have to hit download, but "preparing" the download and all that and having to hit "download in background" is lame. Of course I want it to download in the background.

LOL. "Players didn't respond to the format".
Obviously getting rid of this is a good thing. But it probably just means microtransactions in big budget games.

All this is is a reason for me not to buy the PS4 right away - so I'm not sitting there again with a fancy new machine while Sony spreads their resources around. But hey it's their business.

That is an amazing update.

In some ways I am happy for the installments. $2.99 is a very small entry fee to see if I like this game that looks pretty good. In other ways it is frustrating. I am sure I won't want to have to wait for the next installments. I'd rather experience the story at my own pace.

After reading these comments I now see the problem even more clearly. With a 32GB card I can delete games I've beaten and that sort of stuff, and it's never stopped me from buying something I wanted to buy, but I have already had to delete games I haven't beaten, and it's obvious that the prices of the memory cards ARE stopping some people from buying games. With a move towards a downloadable future and a focus on these great indie PSN games Sony needs to take down this barrier.

I'm looking forward to this too. I hope the story and characters and exploring are all really good, because that's what makes games like Professor Layton really shine.

Something like that would be a successful commercial

I bought the 32GB at launch. I just pretended it was the price of the system. I'm basically out of space now, though. And I would certainly welcome them both releasing a larger card AND lowering the prices.

I cannot understand this decision by Capcom. The game would be better on the Vita, period. I don't care how many people own the 3DS and how many own the Vita. Surely they comprehend that people in Japan would buy the Vita specifically for this game, completely negating that argument.

No time for me this weekend. Play for me. If I have any time at all I might fire up the Rayman Legends Challenges App on Wii U.

I hope it's action/adventure/rpg and not racing.

I'll be sad if the vita fails, and sad if devs stop making games for it, but, honestly, if I can remote play all of my PS4 games on it that's practically all I will need.

Lowering the price of the memory cards would definitely help I think. I say come out with a 64 GB and price it the same as the 32 GB one is. Then cut the prices on the existing ones.

I hate having to choose between preorder bonuses.

Maybe they're lowering expectations so they can beat their projections for once and give some good news. They have to have something up their sleeves. They have yet to try a price drop, and if they announce a few surprise games and remote play is universal with ps4 then away we go.

Very interesting. Is there some sort of free developers software as well?

This and Doki Doki both look great to me. Hopefully they dont price themselves out of the range of people trying them out.

Jealous! Hopefully this is one the US copies.

Out of curiosity, would they be given access to the supposedly basically finished Battlefront game? Where does something like that fit in when someone like Disney buys LucasArts?

In theory and according to the scoring policy, a 5 is not necessarily a bad thing. But in reality not many games score that low or below. I like the idea of using the 1-10 scale correctly and I support that notion, but even on this site traditionally a 5 looks pretty bad.

But with that being said, just start throwing out more 5's on reviews of truly average games and it will really drive the scoring policy home for people.

I wish we'd get some zen pinball sales.

I wonder how much Microsoft pays for this kind of stuff. Anyways, like you mention in the article, I think the primarily important thing is who sells the most consoles this holiday season bc of the snowball effect. I agree that it will mostly come down to price and whether or not Microsoft does anything stupid with being always online or blocking used games. My prediction is this generation will be close. PS4 will keep things tighter and maybe even beat Microsoft.

These are the types of sales that I like. I'm tempted to go ahead and buy FFA now since it will come with the Vita version and R&C 4 when they finally come out on PSN. I'm also tempted by Thieves in Time as well as Secret Agent Clank.

And I'm really excited about trying the multiplayer on Zombie Tycoon 2. Fingers crossed that it's the kind of simple addictive multiplayer I've been craving for the Vita!

This will be fantastic, I can feel it! And I really hope we get a ps4 game like ToD or CiT

@Ginkgo I agree. The only angle that still releasing a blockbuster on ps3 makes sense from is from the 3rd party developer's perspective. I would not fault a 3rd party for making that decision at all. But Sony shouldn't be doing it. And they should still provide incentive to try and get those 3rd parties to reward their early adopters of the ps4 too.

@MadchesterManc Whatever Microsoft did transitioning from the xbox to the 360 seemed to work pretty well for them, didn't it? And in turn they rewarded their most loyal customers, the early adopters, through their successful generation transition. The people that sat on their hands for 6 or 7 years waiting to buy a ps3 do not deserve new games made for them when the next generation is released, and they also don't need new games — they have 6 or 7 years worth of great games to work on. Sony will of course keep making money selling ps3s and old games for a long while now, but they should be spending all of their money on games for the ps4 and advertising for the ps4.

I really don't understand Sony's strategy of generation transitions. Late adopters have nothing to complain about, they know full well that they're late to the party. And they suddenly have years and years of great games to play that are completely new to them. Don't spend a second of your time on the old console, reward the early adopters of the new one. I'd even like to see them go so far as to encourage and provide incentive for 3rd parties to transition as well.

@ShogunRok Interesting. I've had it for a while, but I haven't gotten much more than a few hours into Skyrim yet. Would I be better off starting over now to avoid glitches with my save file? Would it make that much of a difference?

I honestly hate Sony's approach to generation transitions.

It's funny, as a consumer, I actually don't like Sony's commitment to legacy consoles. I couldn't be more frustrated to see the PSP doing well. And if I buy a PS4 at launch I will want to see the PS3 killed and buried.

It seems like it would be a better business decision too. Sure, make the PS3 cheaper and keep selling it. You'll get purchases from the people out there who have waited 7 years for a $100 PS3. But don't use any of your resources on it. You already have the money of the people that bought PS3. Now you want them to buy the PS4. Make them feel like their PS3 is obsolete. Honestly, who cares if they don't like it. They'll probably grumble all the way to the store and pick up a PS4. Reward early adopters with your attention.

@get2sammyb Ha! That's awesome. Thanks for pointing that out. That technology of theirs is fantastic. I really liked the Kara short too I hope the next game follows that story and uses the same actress too.

Kara looks a lot like the nanny in The Following.

Lol, love his confidence in his work. Wasn't going to set the world on fire, probably had a number of weak spots... But probably worth playing.

I'll be picking up dragon fantasy tonight. I really like day 1 discounts, because even though my backlog is very full, I am reassured by the fact that the first week is cheaper. You see because usually I could say I have too many games to play now, I'll just wait until it goes on sale.

Awesome! They better confirm that vita version.

Rats, PS2 classic. I'd buy a remake of this concept on PSN where I can play other player's creations.

@rjejr couldn't agree more these days.