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Can't you deduct your state income tax from your federal taxes? Can't do the same with the sales tax. So unless you save more than a third of your income, a 3% income tax means you pay less in taxes total than a 3% sales tax. Anyway, this is way off topic.

I don't know... is there any component in the PS4 that would really drive up the price? Seem like fairly standardized components to me. I don't think they're willing to take as much a loss as they did with the PS3.

Do you have a newsgroup subscription? I pulled 200mbit through the university wifi the other day. And I'm pretty sure that's because I hit a cap on my Mac Air wifi. I should give the wired connection a shot some day.

My birthday is November 9... make it happen, Sony. You know you want to beat Microsoft to the release. edit: then again, UPS doesn't deliver on Saturday. So Friday!

There's a whole lot wrong with public education, not least of which is the idea that you can teach kids more by keeping their asses in the seat longer. I've been giving guest lectures in low-income schools and those kids have 5 minute breaks between classes, which they spend walking swiftly...

Given the thread title, this seemed to fit here. Please tell me there's more to this than the CNN email makes it appear: (And holy shit is "Breaking News" overused these days.)

Just adding that this is probably the most amazing gameplay video I've seen in forever. No word on a release date that I can find and not available for preorder on Amazon yet.

I'm happy Microsoft made this change. Still won't get an xbox180, but that's beside the point. One company dominating the console market is bad for gamers.

Looks exactly like DK2... meh, hopefully there's some improvements to the game. But still pretty cool. I'm surprised it took this long.

Didn't Sony already provide dedicated servers for the PS3? For some reason I thought they did.

I'm sure Amazon has received some guarantees from Microsoft and Sony as to how many units they will have available on launch day. They wouldn't want the bad PR of advertising a launch day edition and not delivering. I do, however, suspect that they get a larger allotment than other stores...

I'm guessing Facebook would have to collaborate for this to work? That is pretty Orwellian, though... wow. But a surveillance warrant from the FISA court could easily compel Microsoft to transmit recordings from Kinect -- they wouldn't have a choice but to do it. Since the kinect has...

Is there a benefit in switching over to one of the launch day bundles, as opposed to ordering the game separately with my existing launch day order? There's no discount for ordering these things bundled and there's always the risk of a game getting delayed.

On the upside, you can again order the Xbox One Launch Edition on Amazon. Either they got more supply allocated to them or people cancelled their preorders...

I think Microsoft actually has a fairly complicated system to allow sharing of downloaded games. Something weird with 10 friends... I don't think the details have been announced yet. In any case, that's a more favorable system than Steam, for example. So hopefully the digital-only sales won't be...

Will be interesting to see when the "standard" edition PS4 overtakes the launch edition xbone on amazon:http://www.amazon.com/best-sellers-v...bs/videogames/ From what I understand, there are more launch units available for the PS4. That certainly seems true on Amazon or the PS4 wouldn't rank...

Of course, and the Xbone has the Kinect -- whereas you pay another $60 for the eye on the PS4, where likely no games will incorporate it because it's not a required add-on. So there's little value in buying one. I wouldn't use the Kinect myself as I don't like waving around with my arms while...

I don't think the $500 price tag is a big deal ($499.96 is rounded to $500 and not truncated to $499 -- same for the PS4 at $399.99). It's rather the price combined with the DRM that is a problem. For having to put up with this shit, games don't appear to be any cheaper and neither is the...

People spend money on different skins in games - what do you think? That said, wanting particular characters in a Disney game where part of the draw is the characters, doesn't seem all that out of place with me...

Is there anything other than "paying for MP?" I agree that it's obviously worse than getting MP free. At the same time, it's not entirely unexpected, given how well it's worked for Microsoft. I do wonder what's up with things like "Public Events" in the destiny demo. If they do things like...

http://www.ign.com/wikis/playstation...tation_4_Games Killzone and Knack are listed as releasing during the launch window. I'm actually looking forward to Knack: the graphic style is cute and so is the setup for the story. Wish they'd launch with PS3 streaming titles, though. That'd give...

Yeah, $399 without the Eye beats $459 with it. I was just curious because of the amazon listing. Are The Order, Infamous, FFXV, and Kingdom Hearts going to be exclusive titles? If so, that seems like a pretty strong showing for an E3 reveal. I suspect we'll see more over the coming months...

Any word on the PSEye? Not that I care much about it, but Amazon still lists pictures of it along with the console on the pre-order page.

Does anyone have a link to a video of the tech demo? I can't find it on youtube or the e3 website. edit: nm, found it -http://www.ign.com/videos/2013/06/10...ony-conference

The amazon listing includes the PSEye in the order, by the way. That's Sony's version of the kinect, right? So developers *could* include gesture control if it didn't suck.

As for voice commands and switching channels: there are TVs that support this natively. Ask people who have one of those how often they use it... and how often they just grab the remote. It's a cool gimmick at first, but not a selling point for TVs much less consoles. You could also just...

Rerolled has an IRC channel?

Two day shipping also means you get it on release day -- there's no 1 day shipping.

Preordered -- easy decision.

No release date is kind of weak, though. I wonder whether they were waiting for Microsoft to announce first -- couldn't release that with only a few hours advance notice. If they also beat the XDone to market that'd be just murder...

Amazon's PS4 site just went down haha. Been refreshing it throughout and it worked until after price was announced. edit: oh, back up again...

I guess they'd need the cloud integration to have the integration of tablets, like in the game that was demoed?

And they win on pricing... holy shit.

And now we're going to the cloud...

Puts it on par with Xbox Live. I don't know if PS+ is (or will be) running their own servers, but I suspect that wouldn't be free.

For the hive!

6m-1yr out, so this isn't a launch title? Aww...

Also, horrible aim...

Man, looks awesome. But they clearly have some optimization remaining on these games.

The emphasis on single player games pretty much confirms this, yes.