"Seems to me, Sony have the choice, they can take the respectable sales numbers, and great profit margins, OR do a price cut and get a large boost in sales numbers."

If you think that that Sony is experiencing "great profit margins", you're sadly mistaken. PS3 sales, year/year decreased 31%! Furthermore, Sony cut its losses in half this year, from $124 million to $66 million. Do you really think they're experiencing great profit margins with $66 million in losses?

Furthermore, any Sony profit margins you speak of exist at the cost of installed base. Because of that lack of installed base, you have individuals like Bobby Kotick posturing that his company (Activision) will reconsider supporting the platform.

I'm glad to see lower production costs on the PS3. Now, pass those savings along to your potential customer base. Then, the revenues will come in. The profit is in the software, not the hardware.

Nintendo's conference told me one thing. The DSi has great support while the Wii doesn't. The DS has great support from third party companies and, while simple in nature, provides great gaming content. It's a shame when I get more excited about a portable's games than I am about the home console's games.

The playstation has always tried to be all things to all people. If you think back to the PS2, karaoke, DDR, and peripheral games started there. Devil May Cry, God of War, and Killzone also originated on that system. The playstation has always ridden the fence. That's why the systems sell so much.

I think that the Sony conference was pretty good, B+. The synergy of the PS3 & PSP remote play introduced with the PSPGo!'s line up is very impressive. LBP, Motorstorm, SoulCalibur, Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil, and Gran Tourismo 5 make the system look very promising. If the Zune HD only plays XBLA games, I may lean toward a PSP-3000. I may even get a 2000 if I can find it.

I've been waiting for both all three developments discussed. I haven't purchased Fallout 3 because I was waiting on the Game of the Year edition. I can't wait to jump into Fallout 3 for real. I wonder if Bethesda will make it all fit on one DVD9?

Mothership Zeta sounds awesome. I've been waiting to jump into Fallout 3 for some time and while Broken Steel pushed it over the top, Mothership is simply icing on the cake.

At any rate, the most exciting announcement here is the equal treatment for the PS3. It's good to know that Bethesda always had that in mind. The PS3 is a good platform and deserves all the extra Fallout 3 love. Good on ya Bethesda! Just make sure your next game doesn't have any exclusivity associated with it. Period.

I think the issue here is that movies like Disaster Movie, Meet the Spartans, etc... don't represent movies or the movie medium and its community as a whole. The contention here is that games and gamers perpetuate the vile stereotypes associated with the entire medium. Because we embrace that stereotypical view and call it our own, society tends to honor that and follow our example.

I agree, Bioshock is a great example of pushing the envelope in games. Unfortunately, the average non-gamer (American or otherwise) connotation associated with games is GTAIV (guns & hookers) or Halo (just guns).The gamer is immediately visualized as an overweight, pimply, socially-inept, lazy bugger with fair to middling intelligence and enormous sexual repression. The gamer is not visualized as its real counterpart (29-34 year old male-52% of the time, with a job, family, and a higher tendency to workout than non-gamers). Until these conceptions of our medium are quelled, it cannot migrate into respectability.