He came back to Twitter for like a day, then took down his profile again.

While I love the idea of video makers using gameplay to make cool videos (like JonTron, The Completionist, and Two Best Friends Play do), I have a problem with people making Let's Plays without any unique commentary or post-production editing, and claiming they have full rights to monetize the video. Even worse are those "it's free advertising" people, because that's a huge load. Let's face it: these "free advertising" preachers are not making these videos solely out of love for the game makers. If they were, they wouldn't care if they were making money or not; they'd do it for free, because that's free advertising.

The reason the "free advertising" argument is pushed is because the makers are downright lying about why they want to have the right to make videos with gameplay. Sure, you are advertising the game, but they need to stop pretending like they're doing this purely out of the goodness of their heart. They want a cut.

That being said, Phil has zero social skills and I think that people who make Youtube videos that actually require serious editing, post-production, and effort, should not have to pay a developer every cent they earn from the video.

This. Unless you've seen 60fps consistently, it doesn't really matter. The frame rate issue isn't too important, but I'd rather have people yearn for a better frame rate than stupid resolution issues.

While frame rate is absolutely noticeable in comparison between 30 and 60, resolution is like this generation's "blast processing": a term used by console zealots and marketing executives to say their console is better without knowing anything about how it works or the difference it makes.

I expected much lower, and considering this is a big, high-profile release for the Vita, it's downright exhausting to see the system flub it up.

I want Nintendo to do this kind of thing again next year. It's such a smart idea.

Lots of awesome surprises for the Wii U, a nice bit of humor with the Robot Chicken sketches and Iwata VS. Reggie fight, no potential for flubbing a live performance with "technical difficulties", and best of all, they kept the games coming even after the digital event was over. Nintendo had momentum throughout the entire show; they kept announcing games and showing real game footage throughout the entire week, and considering the hype dies down considerably after the press conferences are over, that's very impressive. You never knew what Nintendo would show next, but holy hell, they kept churning out awesome stuff to show us.

Bayonetta Collection. Delicious 60fps.

Yeah, there were, but those games didn't have budgets that outweigh Michael Bay-directed feature films. They didn't have a workforce that was overexerted to compensate for an industry that was always watching them through the internet, commentating and criticizing their development practices, solely to increase hype and site traffic. Most importantly, AAA multi-platform games didn't have competition back then. Indie development was not nearly as big and influential as it is now. The only AAA games that actually hold up are the first-party exclusives like Mario Kart 8, Uncharted 2 and Halo 3, because they have internal development and close relations with the console manufacturers on their side. The funds for porting and massive marketing aren't in the mix.

The gaming industry today is nothing like the game industry of the late 80's and early 90's. If you're curious, read up on the state of the gaming industry right before E.T. on Atari 2600 was released. Look at how the inflated budgets, huge prices for licenses, and dearth of quality control among both developers and consumers appeared. The game's development wasn't based around making a game: it was making a product and it failed because of it. The entire industry fell apart because of lackluster job security, budgets that treated the workforce like garbage, and a market that had too many products without any real messaging behind them. Consumers didn't have options that appealed to them. They just had to contend with AAA publishers doing what they want, even if that was something old, redundant, or just plain bad. It was a total mess.

Sound familiar?

If the XenoMech Saga name didn't convince you, the font and formatting that look like a sixth grade English paper that's in line for proofreading and the terrible banal, completely unprofessional language should. Fake.

Okay, cool, but you'd have to be insane to ignore the detrimental annual, unevolved releases, the rehashed sequels to military shooters, the saturation of microtransactions to win back money lost on huge budgets, and dearth of innovation in AAA titles. I'm not saying the indies are propping up the entire market, but they aren't causing anywhere near the absurdly high level of damage that multi-platform AAA releases are.

Sony really needs to stop marketing the Vita as a remote play device, and I swear, this bundle is the epitome of leashing it to the PS4 (next to actually tying it to the system).

Sony doesn't understand that the Vita is a damn good piece of hardware. Seriously, aside from the terrible rear touch pad, there is nothing I can complain about from a hardware standpoint. But why isn't Sony releasing any Vita games? Why are the only ones who are providing games for the system indie developers and Japanese developers like those who are making Freedom Wars? Why is Sony so dead set on not doing anything for this system?

I'm so tired of Sony neglecting this system, because it's a great piece of hardware. The Vita is a great piece of hardware. On its own. Not glued to the PS4 like Sony has been doing for the past year. They can do so much with it if they actually take it seriously and stop letting it fend for itself on a market that Nintendo has owned for decades. Bundling it with the PS4 might sell some units, but it doesn't solve the Vita's problem of having next to no support from Sony themselves. It's downright pathetic.

Nah, I follow you, man. No sweat.

The non-gamer crowd flocked to the Wii, but moved on afterward. I do agree with you that Nintendo pushed the Gamepad idea from the tablet hype, and while I like the idea of off-TV play, I'd like it more if the tablet didn't seem like such an afterthought to the developers. And don't worry, I agree that the non-gamers contributed to Nintendo's mindset here, but I still think that marketing was a huge problem. In fact, I also think it's the problem with something like the Vita, which has had next to no marketing here in the States. I think Nintendo was too torn this gen: they couldn't choose between going after the non-gamers or the core gamers, so they took a rather unhappy medium.

That being said, the Wii U's 2014 looks much brighter than the PS4 and Xbox One's. We actually have concrete 2014 releases for the Wii U, while games like The Order, The Division and Arkham Knight are getting shoved to 2015. Bayonetta 2 and X are what I'm looking forward to the most, with Smash Bros. U coming too. I think Mario Kart 8 proved that Nintendo can sell consoles if they actually push getting the word out on their awesome software. I want them to do more of that.