Hakaisou

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We at Microsoft are still denying all the massive evidence pointing to a severe vulnerability in our systems. Deny deny deny. Nope, nothing to see here. Hey look over here at Halo 4! Pay no mind to the dissenting voices! Happiness is mandatory!!!

Holy crap DO WANT!!!

Why have I not heard of this before now?

@Assmar Uh... those are robots. If you don't start paying attention, you'll be the among the first of the Terminated.

aaaaand i just lost my biggest incentive for upgrading my cellphone is year. This is stupid Sony. Massively, epically, apocalypticaly stupid.

@Samz2
Activision tanked half of the music genre in one console cycle.

Harmonix refined it into pure gold.

Please dear god let Harmonix make a play to acquire Freestyle Games. I don't wanna see DJ Hero die like this, especially when you look at the design philosophies of Activision, Harmonix, and Freestyle and realize that Freestyle is now basically what Harmonix was back at Frequency and Amplitude.

@Art84 is going to? have you looked at the number of CoD titles at the store lately?

Didn't a lot of homebrew PSP operating systems use this exact same system?

This thing is Borg. Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated.

@rhododragon
what rhododragon said. the idea of NGP offering so much richer an experience and capability than the 3DS at only 50 to 100 dollars more is a very good sales strategy.

No. $300-$350 is not equivalent to $599. It's $300-$350 unless there are strange economic forces that alter the value of currency around a handheld device. This argument made sense ten years ago when Nintendo launched the GBA, but not anymore. In an age where people are more than willing to shell out $500 for an anything gadget, here is one for at least $150 less than that, that's more powerful than everything else.

The fact of the matter is people are willing to spend more money on one device now than they were willing to spend on a full entertainment center not even 6 years ago, and the idea that there is a glass ceiling hanging over any type of market is false, or at the very least, no longer true. Smartphones have completely changed how people value gadgets. Not just smartphones, but all gadgets. Sony seems to have grasped that, and it's not that hard when people are right now just starting to carry devices with enough power to stream high def video from the internet with them at all times. Sony's strategy then with NGP is simple; If your phone can provide the functions of your common laptop replacement, and will sell, very well I may add, at prices of $350 to $600 dollars depending on subsidy and model, then how do you justify the unsalability of a device that can provide the other half of your average media experience, the entertainment center?
I see Sony having great success with NGP. How much is anyone's guess, after all, most people were of the opinion that Android would forever be the favorite street performet to iOS' full orchestra, profitable but not as much, and yet just recently Android has become the most popular mobile OS on the market, and done so not by targeting Apple's market, but by appealing to everyone else. The same scenario can be seen brewing here between Nintendo and Sony. Nintendo is targeting, profitably, the exact same audience that it has always targeted since the NES. Sony meanwhile is targeting everyone else, and even if they don't get half of that target audience, that's still a much larger portion of the total gaming market than Nintendo seems willing to look at at any one time.

@WhiteShield easily money well spent. i tried the three month, then after it was apparent that I was gonna get a ton of free and discounted stuff, I moved up to the full 13 month year (12 + 1 early adopter). Time and time again it proves worth it.