Yay, so now they'll have most of the features of a launch day 360

Seriously, this is getting ridiculous. How long does MS have to kick their butt before Japan will take the reins off the team in San Diego?

I think his analysis for once is correct. The core hardware platform will stay the same. It's physical footpint (aka 360 xlim) and/or additional multimedia/HTPC stuff attached to that core hardware is what's up in the air

360 elite with PVR and/or Blu-ray? Totally possible. End user upgradeable hard drives? Definately doable

Most people forget that this is the first gen where 4 years down the road, $199 has not been breached (on the SKUs people actually want anyway), and the install bases suck.

You won't see a 720 in public for at least 2 years, and it will definately be 3-D native in both motion control and getting the goggles on. I know how cool it can be, I had 3D 20 years ago on my master system :)

Europe in general is very anti-MS and defintately leans Playstation period

Honestly, the big thing is to put pressure on MS to continue the $20 refurb hard drive deals and start promoting games to require installs

Nintendo knows that they're in big trouble now that their gimmick has been completely surpassed by both of their competiton, which also have far superior hardware. They're in major trouble on the technology front, and with 360 and PS3 cuts on the close horizon, every dollar down means more and more people will choose a real system instead of a glorified bowling machine

Definately not.

For one thing, well implemented achievements make you play a game longer and keep copies off the used market. Whether or not people want to believe it, it does help big time. I doubt it's 50% more because of achievements, but it's absolutely a purchase factor

And trophies are just lame, the reason why they fail is the lack of the cumulative score. This doesn't drive the consumer to get them to increase penis size.