Looks like a good reason to get my 1Tb hard drive now.

It's probably just a troll trap. Don't fall in it, mate.

Spoken like a true accountant, but I do agree, with the first part anyway. Whilst a good Metacritic score certainly doesn't do any harm, it's not the be-all-and-end-all. For example, to get any reasonable accuracy from the User Score, you have to take into account trolls and fanboys, etc.

Also, political stances. For example the extremely low score for the PC Modern Warfare 2, probably a vote against the lack of dedicated servers. It doesn't mean it's overall a bad game, though or will sell poorly.

Then there's the case for Beyond Good & Evil. Despite excellent Critic / User scores, the game floundered through lack of marketing.

I don't agree at all with sacrificing quality over marketing, even though BG&E would be a good argument for it. But look at the turnabout EA had to do, with years of churning out the same bland rubbish year on year, started to produce decent games again. So the marketing over quality would only work for so long.

This is a classic example of an optional update if I ever saw one.

I just hate having my xmb cluttered with stuff I'll never use, at least not in the foreseable future anyway. How about Sony not forcing this on all and sundry and treat people more like individuals?

I thought the message of how warfare affects innocent communities was much more subtle, mature and affecting in U2 than the no-holds-barred airport scene in MW2. I hope to God Naughty Dog approaches U3 with as much restraint and maturity.

Afterall, we'll always have MW3.