Phaeston-e12

What Sony did in E3 (Regardless of their actual stance on DRM) was very smart by initially only reveal some vague feature about their console and waited until MS revealed everything about their console. MS probably have played all of their cards during E3 due to the amount of PR backlash they've received after the initial release of information about their console. What alot of people overlook is that Sony still have plenty of cards left in terms of exclusives that they didn't directly show during E3. We will see how the situation develops, but Sony's presentation on PS4 was well calculated regardless of its quality and has satisfied quite alot of what I wanted from the next gen console. And it certainly seems that alot of people are happy to see them fully capitalizing on MS's multiple PR fiascoes. The gaming industry is certainly heading into an interesting period.

They remarked and reacted the same way when Windows 8 have launched. Although there's plenty of reason to believe that the whole Windows 8 fiasco was blown out of proportion, their staff's reaction over the public disagreement has been far from graceful.

It is likely that I will wait for at least 3~4 months before I make any decision to buy either PS4 or XBONE. I've learned many times to never buy a product from day one especially when it comes to gaming and considering both are multi-hundred dollar piece of equipments, I would prefer to carefully weigh by decision before chucking that much money out. When hypes have died down a bit and enough comparisons between two consoles has been made, and there's enough reason to believe that both consoles are stable enough to enjoy the game without worrying about hard-drive or network shutting down due to an internal structural fault, then I will start making decision on which console out of two to buy. However, it is very likely that I will lean toward PS4 based on the current presentations I've seen from both consoles. I have little desire to own a console that can perform different things such as TV/Streaming Video etc. I have Galaxy 10.1 tablet that I use for watching shows and videos wherever I want and rest of the entertainment stuff is done on my computer. Furthermore, on watching TV, I stopped watching any television shows 6 years ago because most of them are just uninteresting. I admit that my financial capability is probably better than a lot of people and I do own several computers that I use for different purposes. I have a bad case of being distracted very easily and the last thing I am interested is being able to do everything on just one thing. I have zero games installed on my computer because of that destructive tendency of mine. Because of that, my personal expectation from both consoles were something that emphasizes mostly on the gaming stuff and so far the Sony's presentation was more in-line with my expectation. Also, I have little intention to be forced to pay extra for things like the Kinect when I have zero interest on using those kind of features. I'm bit dinosaur on this but my webcams are all collecting dust in my shelf and I don't even carry a camera nor use a camera feature on my iPhone at all. Plus the last thing I want is to use voice feature nor motion feature to enhance my gaming experience. I play games silently and I am perfectly happy with just being able to control everything with hands exclusively. Therefore that extra $100 just doesn't warrant enough justification for me. On the exclusive game-wise, both have some good games that I am interested in and I do admit that I play the hell out of Halo 4 myself. But does that justify an extra hundred dollars and the confusing and restrictive software ownership policy? I'm not so sure.

Well myself, physical pain-wise I could name a few I suppose. For some reason anesthetics doesn't work well on me and even the deep one never really goes in full effect. When I was 8 years old I had a viral-type meningitis and they had to do the spinal tab and had done it without any sort of pain reducing stuff, so I felt the entire length of that operation. Also 2 years ago I had to drill most of my tooth due to the severe cavity I suffered from, (I couldn't afford to do it until I went to the foreign country due to not having dental insurance and the insane payment that comes with the dental service in this country) The doctor shot probably more than ten times around the gum area and I still felt the pain. So I ended up just feeling the entire thing and because of that, the doctor had to perform the cavity filling over the span of 3 days because of the amount of pain I endured. My life probably will be royally screwed if I ever get a sickness that requires a major surgery because my body doesn't react to the anesthetics that much, ahaha.

My question is how they are going to negotiate the reselling price and the activation fee for the used games. I understand the scheme is to give more control and power to the game developers in relation to the third party sellers like the Gamestop raking a fair amount of income by buying people's game for a peanut and sell them for ~80% of the retail price. I assume the only way to make the resale scheme work is to still keep the buying used game+activation fee = still less than the new retail price. So does this mean then Gamestop and its ilks will have to at least cut the price to something like 40~50% of what they current sell for? I really don't have much opposition to what they are trying to do. But this is going to open a whole can of worms because the third party vendors will have to negotiate the game price on an individual basis and I can't imagine the companies like Gamestop being happy with that. Also, how are they going to lower the price for used games that's outdated and unpopular? Developers are not required to lower the activation fee just because the game is old or people don't buy their games alot. This means the thid party vendor will have to cut those kind of used games by a bigger margin to be able to clear their inventory.

Fortunately and unfortunately for me, trying to run intuos 5 and maximize the capability led me to dump pretty much $800+ into my computer especially since my focus was to be able to multitask in dual monitors. Well, least I have plathora of options I suppose. Maybe I should take this opportunity and start saving up for cinqie 24HD.