I want to say I agree.

I mean this is the first gen where Sony actually had to go head-to-head with a competitor. In previous gens they got to face Sega being stupid with the Saturn/Dreamcast, and Nintendo gimping their console of features like disk-drives. They also had the leg up on the Xbox last gen because they launched much earlier, and gained a huge amount of support prior.

But this gen the 360 and PS3 were on mostly even footing with similar hardware power, and similar feature sets, and Sony fell on their face.

Makes me all the more excited to see next gen. I will love to see the new strategies each company brings out to compete with each other.

Honestly,for that price it´s not a terrible deal,the game it´s not as bad as some say.

Arach666

What's one good quality about the game?

It is easily the worst FPS I have ever played in my entire life.

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The near perfect solution is to quit bending over with your pants down.

Seriously these companies wouldn't do what they do if people would actually have the balls to go through with their "boycotts" and whatnot.

If you hate online passes then don't support them. Lord knows there's about a thousand other worthwhile games to play without them. Go play those instead.

AmazonTreeBoa

Yep, it confuses me.

I buy/play games on a game-to-game basis.

Even if I like an earlier title in a series that doesn't mean I rush out to buy the newest one even though it looks "subpar". That's just stupid.

And the same goes with brands. Just because some developers make good games does not mean I hype their future projects anymore than the noname developer. I like to explore my options.

There's just no sense in complaining about something, and then doing it. I didn't like Modern Warfare, so I chose not to buy any future CoD games despite their popularity. I also don't choose to buy DLC just because "I can't prevent developers from making it".

It's that kind of mindset that has gotten the industry where it is today. DLC up your ass, and online passes on single player games. Quit complaining if you aren't going to take a stand against these things, people!

It's just incredible the sheer quantity of games that come out that do things "right" in the eyes of gamers, but what's also incredible is how 99.9% of those games go unnoticed by those same gamers simply because they're too scared to try something new, or choose ignorance as the best option for buying games.

Is it Friday yet? :(

timmy00

Nope, but I'm currently working my way through my 3rd or 4th all-nighter this semester, and it's only week 3

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nailed it

Portal 2,L4D,L4D2 and TF2 are all good game but by god valve arent as good as some folks make them out to be.

reach3

Master Chief is also on the PC, and Gordon Freeman is also on the PS2/Xbox/Xbox360/PS3

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They just keep making dumb decisions. That's all.

I think the biggest problems they're facing now is both the amount of money they invest in their first party versus the returns they get, and also how much of a money pit PSN is to them. They really should start charging for that.

I imagine the Vita will flop here in the states too, and not just because of Nintendo's offerings. Apple drastically changed the market for handhelds with their iPhone and iPad. I just don't see the PS Vita selling millions with so much competition in the market nowadays.

arkephonic

I've been defending the PSVita quite a bit on here, saying not to jump to conclusions about it. I think that it has a western centric launch line up that isn't very appealing to the eastern market, and even though Japan's handheld market is larger than their home console market, they still aren't as big of a player as Europe or North America.

That being said, you bring up a good point about Apple changing the market. That, combined with the resurgence of Nintendo's handheld success with the 3DS, I seriously don't see the Vita taking off when it hits globally. It might bomb, unfortunately.

The PSP also had a hefty library of western-centric titles, and look how well that did?

People go on all the time about how 70 million hardware units sold means it didn't fail, but what about software sales? As far as I know it has the absolute lowest attach rate of any current system, and the lowest software sales overall.

Sure in Japan it did well, but the market just was not there for the PSP in America a few years after it launched. Once the iPhone launched the PSP's software market share in the handheld sector dropped like a rock.

And yet again here comes Sony with the PS Vita. Their second attempt at "a console in your hands" with their big launch title of Uncharted? Is Uncharted really what handheld gamers want? Even in America is that what they want?

I mean anything's possible, but I forsee the PS Vita failing pretty massively in America because the competition is just too good in comparison.

It has more influence than I'd like, but American people don't really venture outside the box too often. I can't even count how many times I'd talk about Stalker or The Witcher 2 to someone new I met and they had no idea what I was talking about. Even some PC gamers I met don't know about them, they only knew about counterstrike and Starcraft.DragonfireXZ95

I'm quite the opposite.

I meet more PC gamers than I do console gamers, but it's just a different market. No one thing is all that popular in the grand scheme of things, so it's not really surprising if they don't know about STALKER or Witcher.

I have one friend who tends to just plays Dota/LoL, another who plays Battlefield Heroes and Diablo 2 with his friends (they're all like 40 years old), and another who plays Counter Strike.

Then of course there's me who would know what The Witcher, and STALKER are, and I have a friend, as well as my brother, who would also know all about that.

My most recent acquaintance actually began talking about his love for indie games, as well as games like Portal.

And my cousins are also apparently PC gamers too. They'll play games like Fallout, and Metro.

I guess I'm just lucky. I'd say I know a good 15 or so people who PC game almost exclusively. Most everyone else I know don't game at all.

They just keep making dumb decisions. That's all.

I think the biggest problems they're facing now is both the amount of money they invest in their first party versus the returns they get, and also how much of a money pit PSN is to them. They really should start charging for that.

I imagine the Vita will flop here in the states too, and not just because of Nintendo's offerings. Apple drastically changed the market for handhelds with their iPhone and iPad. I just don't see the PS Vita selling millions with so much competition in the market nowadays.

The near perfect solution is to quit bending over with your pants down.

Seriously these companies wouldn't do what they do if people would actually have the balls to go through with their "boycotts" and whatnot.

If you hate online passes then don't support them. Lord knows there's about a thousand other worthwhile games to play without them. Go play those instead.