_Bear said:

Yeahhhh Blackhawks win ! Moving into the final 4 again!!!!

Nice congrats!

Heat moving on tomorrow.

Foolz said:

Oculus Rift isn't sold by default with the consoles, so no we won't on a large scale with consoles.

And when someone adds a VR headset to their console by default next gen, everybody will moan about the price and how they don't want it, forcing it to be dropped half a year down the road.  And that will be the end of it.

phantom_leo said:

Is it strange for me to be anticipating May 15th in order to see how well I fared in the Americas and World Tournaments in Mario Golf: World Tour? Even if you are slightly curious about Golf in general, it is a very, very worthy purchase!

I was playing Links on my XB1 this weekend. Still a great game. I wish EA had not killed XSN.

SupremeAC said:

Foolz said:

Oculus Rift isn't sold by default with the consoles, so no we won't on a large scale with consoles.

And when someone adds a VR headset to their console...

That's when I go to the bank to get a loan.

1. as in real words, or gibberish you make up on your half of the planet?

2. no

Kinect-less X1 could be given additional processing power

This is no different from the 3DS/2DS situation.  games that aren't built with the kinect in mind could technically use the additional power regardless of the fact if there is a Kinect sitting idle or not.

I also wonder if the 3Gigs of RAM Sony reserves for their OS include a partition for their upcoming Morpheus VR headset. 3Gig always seemed like a lot to me.

So the full scale of Sonys' losses have become clearer. Not only did this post a whopping $1.25 billion overall loss - the gaming division made it a 4th straight year of losses too, despite PS4. And they're predicting next years results will lose them another $487million. There will be 5000 job losses. Also they are splitting the company again on a small scale to section off the mobile sector:

http://www.twst.com/update/59521-sony-corporation-announcement-of-company-split-small-scale-company-split-of-sony-corporation-into-sony-mobile-communications-inc

Another interesting thing to note, it cost them $60 million to scrap old MMOs.

Reading gamers reactions has been interesting: "Wow. I thought for sure they would at least break even with all the sold PS4s." actual quote.

I truly believe that most gamers/media were in this oblivious haze of PS4-drug fuelled euphoria. With the notion that somehow if PS4 would make everything better. Well, it's not just PS4 in the gaming division, Vita sales are flatlining and PS3 is dying quick too. Overall, gaming hardware sales are declining for them. Things should look better next year for the gaming division, but the company as a whole still predicts losing half a billion dollars in next years report.

Videogamer on X1 ditching Kinect

Concerningly for the house that Bill built, Sony hadn't struck this first blow thanks only to its own solid planning, but also because of Microsoft's own colossal blunder. Kinect wasn't a USP. It was a burden.

It's a mistake that may have repercussions for longer than some think. Nearly a year on, just getting rid of the physical need for the peripheral isn't enough: the interface needs to change. Relationships with some devs will need to be patched up. And dropping the price to £349 still doesn't seem like the right figure, especially given the bundle deals that have been offered recently. After a year and a half of disappointment and derision, the firm needs to have the E3 of its life.

So on the notion of USPs, in business I was taught anyway, that your product should have a unique selling point. But as this writer above says, sometimes your USP becomes a burden instead - like Kinect or Wii U gamepad. So regarding home consoles what is your opinion on USPs? Should consoles always play the straight man? Should the only USP be what excusive games it gets?

If all hardware is broadly uniform then why even have exclusive software? Seems like it would benefit the consumer to have a single platform then. While the big 3 are struggling to make money it's 3rd parties like Activision and EA who seem to be profiting because they don't have the same costs as console makers.

Iwata said in the post-earnings Q&A:

"The idea I mentioned about redefining the definition of video game platforms will also require approximately two years,"

So at least they're not branching too far out.  It'll still be something more or less related to videogames.

With this new information, my best bet is that they will add a form of parental authorization to their consoles that will allow parents to insert subliminal messages into the games their kids play.  Innocent things like "eat more vegetables", "do the lawn", "kill your mother" or "go play outside".  Thus they can improve and enlighten the lives of gamers as well as those of their parents.

Kinect-less X1 could be given additional processing power

You'd think that with all the power of the cloud behind them, nobody would bother with a measily 10% of the Xbone's power.