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Hey, maybe it's not such a bad thing that my 360 bricked the other day. By the time I get it back (October) there might even be a patch for this. Here's hoping for some good to come out of this, as Bioshock was my most anticipated game and I can't play it for a month!

No they're not. If you're tech savvy enough there's a way around everything. All you need is a transcoder (link below) and you could be enjoying Xvid on your 360 right now. I've been able to stream such videos to the 360 for months if not years now.

http://www.runtime360.com/

Wait, it's on DVD and not the totally next-gen Blu-ray?

Games are not art. They're products. That's why we have publishers to market and distribute them. As for Lair itself, I don't care what the game is rated, it looks shitty, and I think the developers should fix that problem first before getting rid of the blood.

I was excited for Folklore until playing the JP demo. I guess I was wrong to expect a good quality game from the same people who did Genji. To top things off, if you don't have a 720p capable TV, you're screwed.

This is why, despite owning a PS3, I've yet to buy a single Blu-ray or HD-DVD movie. I'm waiting this shit out until there's only one format left, and if there isn't, I'll just keep buying DVD's and downloading torrents.

As a DOA player I've been enjoying this kind of fanservice for over a decade, so maybe that's why I don't see what the big deal is. Boobs. Big deal. Seen a million bouncy ones already.

When the 360 was already out for a year, I had 3 games for it. Now that the PS3 has been out for about a year, I have only 1 game for it. That doesn't sound like a relatively better library to me. In all fairness that will be two games when Heavenly Sword released, but by the end of the year I'll have 8 Xbox 360 games and 2 PS3 games. And I don't own any shooters.

PS. Check out this screenshot comparison, guys! It looks the like developers lied when they said the PS3 version will be much superior. It looks like all they did was get rid of the bloom.

http://gameplanets.blogspot.com/2007/08/dirt-ps3360-graphics-comparison.html

This is actually how the Japanese develop their games. There, if the developers aren't satisfied with the product, they start again from scratch until it's GOOD. Think of RE4. It went through at least 3 reinventions, and boy was it worth it.

With most American developers, on the other hand, they draw up a plan and follow through no matter what, even if the end result is a turd. Just look at almost any American developed game. They might be playable, but they lack that special quality which many Japanese games (and BioShock) have. That quality is HEART!

Hence, why Japanese games > American games.

I'm not upset just because Sony is copying MS. I'm upset because I own both consoles, and if they're both going to end up being the same there's no fucking point to it, and it's all Sony's fault I spent over $500 on a copycat system.

You know how MS decided to go with Live and the whole personalization thing? And how Nintendo went with waggle controls? Sony came up with nothing. They just threw in half-assed versions of both features, and a Blu-ray player (which I've yet to even use). I said, okay whatever, I'm sure it will get better and Home will turn things around, but it's just Xbox Live with a touch of Sims thrown in. As for the games themselves, I am not overly impressed. BioShock looks much better than anything I've played on PS3. It was the first game I actually confused CGI with in-game.