If they make something that is useful...

If they make something that is useful... I'd probably get it.

I cant imagine I'd get on with an iWatch. I don't want to have to charge up a watch every night or even every week. Plus it'd need to be waterproof.

I dont think Microsoft ever did well in Japan.

It seems the Japanese have more loyalty to their home product.

Isn't Sony bleeding money at the moment? I'd be interested to know how PS3 and xbox game sales rank against one another.

The PS3 used to be a good deal as just a blu-ray player and that may influence things.

Not sure what is going on with Nintendo really. They announced the Wii U ages ago dropping sales of original Wii consoles and then after that they made the mini Wii.

Also they made the 3DS that sold poorly, so naturally they made an XL version of it and put that out.

Seems like they've lost the plot

Does this mean push wont work anymore?

I only signed up recently because it did push so easily.

What about GLaDOS?

Surprised she didn't show up in here?

Can apple buy Foxconn or some other manufacturer?

If they built their own stuff wouldn't that save money? Or does their buisness model rely on exploitng Chinese workers on low wages?

If they opened their own apple factory in China could they not get away with it then?

Go an iDevice and don't need one anymore.

I bought an 4S and there's no compelling reason to upgrade to the next one and a few things holding me back. I dont want to use an adaptor for my docs, and with updates coming along and being able to wipe apps of MY iPhone I'll stay where i am. There's less reason to stick with apple when I'd have to change my docks anyway.

I also have an iPad2 but cant see a reason to upgrade. The 3 is too heavy and the mini is too small and adaptor is wrong. Again not feeling a need to upgrade.

Where could he be?

“Where could he be? Threepio! Threepio, will you come in?”

Enjoying the game but,

I wouldn't call it hyper-realistic. The graphics are fairly poor IMO, its pretty console focused as you can tell from the menus.

I'm hoping someone releases a mod with higher res textures or something.

Bring on the next console generation. The tech's too old now.

How about the cross

There's people going round with a symbol of a man being tortured to death all over the place. Not appropriate for public viewing surely?

EELS!

Eels up inside ya! Finding an entrance where they can.

Can you keep google maps still?

I don't want to upgrade and lose it. I find the street view and lots of points of interest very useful.

Can you have both apps?

I think Microsoft is trying to unify products.

If you look at how Microsoft has been behaving it looks like it’s trying to make all its products appear more unified.

They change Hotmail to outlook. They Create the Windows 8 OS for phones. They mirror that with the metro interface on the PC side of Windows 8 and then match it with their tablet.

Their new Xbox will be called the Xbox Infinity. Symbolised with an 8 on its side (see Microsoft buying up URLs of xbox8).

I think it’s not a bad idea but I just hate the way it looks on the desktop.

If I were Microsoft I would have windows 8 for the PC keep the standard desktop interface as we've always had with the option to use the Metro interface with an icon or key press.

Then have the Metro settings for the interface sync by cloud across all devices so you're looking at the same screen whatever device you're using phone, computer, tablet, or Xbox.

That is really where Microsoft strength is, having it finger in all the pies.

David Bowe

Why not play life on Mars? More appropriate methinks.

Why did they fit speakers to the thing though. When every gram costs money to get to space they put speakers on the think.

Is it in case they meet some Martians and need to say hello.

With the delay the locals would get bored and wander off.

It'd be good to see AMD rise again.

I've been buying Intel chips for a bit now and it still feels dirty.

Last core i remember using was the clawhammer. I think they went into decline since then.

How about that Italian bloke who has done cold fusion with the e-cat?

Once Andrea Rossi’s E-CAT stuff gets going if it's actually real then it should overtake Apple right?

Unless Apple comes out with an iCat?

I dread to think of all the stupid things I did when I was 17

I did lots of stupid things and I expect I had lot more money than this kid from China. I think he’s been taken advantage of and needs some help sorting things out.

The people who convinced him to do this should be put in prison.

Hurry up and release a new Playstaion or Xbox

Then at least the graphics for my PC games will improve...

It's been far too long. I need something shiny!

Every time I see an article about BAE..

Every time I see an article about BAE.. the cost of whatever they're making ends up costing 10 times as much and getting half the amount. Eurofighter's, Nimrods, Tornados...

Last week I used the piratebay and nothing was illegal...

I needed a patch for an old game that was taking an age to download at 25kbps X3 Terran conflict , then found it was on the piratebay and downloaded it at 1mbps.

Very useful and not really illegal AFAIK

What happens if game dies?

Other than supermarkets and online, oh and HMV who may not be long for this world either...

Where do you get games from. I know veterans will already be aware of games and carry on normally but what about people who want to buy games as presents and need advice on things. None of the above sellers are able to provide any reliable info are they?

Is this where Best Buy will come in?

Have I missed something?

It seems strange that they aren't charing more when they seem happy to charge crazy amounts for the increase in storage.

Is there a real reason for this that I'm missing?

Come on! New console please!

We've been stagnating on technology that is 7 years old.

PC gaming is being held back by the consoles and we need something new.

I only hope that this time they make the new consoles easier to write games for.

Why doesn't square "enix" just do the right thing?

It's been said by everyone now, remake final fantasy VII!

Yes it'd be difficult but it'd make so much money. They've made games around it and remade nearly everything else, the PSVita is even getting a remake of FFX (HD).

If Sony could make it a launch title for the next gen of console they'd probably shift a good many consoles and pull some of the share away from Microsoft.

Dark Souls wont release on the PC

Developers prefer console sales as they say that the games are pirated too much on the PC and aren't worth the expense in porting to the PC.

As for Valve i would be very happy to see more half-life in whatever form it takes, be it a 2.3 or a 3.

I thought Valve's idea for episodic content was good, trouble is the gaps between the episode are as long as most full games take to make. (Unless its an EA rushed game, in which case its double :P)

Feels bad

I remember having to sign the terms and conditions to do the update and while i'd probably never install another OS it still felt bad to remove the feature

I suppose if you bought it to run linux and use in a server farm or something it wouldn't cause a problem as its wont matter to them as they probably wont use the online gaming feature.

I think i'll look carefully at the features of their next device before buying it.

I do hope they find a way in the future to properly stop piracy because it really does seem to be affecting PC games.

I'm really going off my PS3, anytime I want to do anything other than play a blu-ray disk it asks me to update something which takes hours for some reason.

People who are carless enough to lose a USB key

The majority of people who are carless enough to lose a USB key are going to be the sort who are carless enough to not encrypt the stuff.

To be honest though USB keys aren't the kind of thing I'd keep data I was worried about keeping private in the first place.

Microsoft losing their way with this?

It's all very well making improvements and such but the trouble with making a games that only work with a certain peripheral has always been a problem in the past and now MS is planning making different versions of the peripheral means that you'll very unlikely to get any developer using whatever features get added.

The only way I can see this working is if it goes into the 3rd Xbox SKU.

Going on that logic

Jack Kilby/Robert Noyce invertors of the integrated circuit are the most influential people in video games.

Did Apple steal the iPod idea while they Partnered with Creative labs?

Did Apple steal the iPod when they partnered with Creative labs?

I'm not pointing the finger at them it’s just something I heard and haven't seen much of it talked about.

What I heard was, while partnered with Creative (makers of the Zen) who wanted to build an MP3 player with a GUI they eventually broke off and did the iPod separately.

If so it would make them a bit of a hypocrite when it comes to complaining about android these days.

I'm impressed

I didn't think anyone used myspace anymore?

Yeah I bought one...

Okay I bought one. My old iPhone 3GS was dying and my stuffs to integrated in iTunes to simply change phones.

I ordered one through 3 and had it on release day I didn't fancy being around all those creepy people in the queues.

The main thing that swung it for me was the SIRI integration but then after testing it out its somewhat disappointing. What they didn’t make clear is, unless you live in the US you can't use the mapping functions E.g. "where's the nearest restaurant?". Plus the UK voice is this sarcastic sounding man who makes me feel inferior.

Other than that it seems like a nice enough phone coming from the 3GS. The camera takes nice photos and the anti-shake thing they did with the gyro seems to work pretty well

Rookie Error

Never update your stuff until the month after release.

By then all the bugs are more likely to have been fixed.

People are just people.

You cant complain when people don't take proper care of their own security saying they should know better.

Looking at the number of accounts that get highjacked it's clear they don't know.

I don't know who's responsabilty it should be to get these people to take better care though.

If Sony put something up for people to read before joining people would just ignore it anyway. So how do you fix these people?

I really don't like Sony though so I find it hard to sypothize with them. It's just their customers I feel sorry for.