I agree with everything said in this article. Period.

Post Scriptum: Good on you, Namco Bandai, well done, remember this my friends, I'll get Tekken Tag Tournament 2 for Christmas, because I enjoy Tekken, and may I say how happy I am with your friendly gifts, we'll repay you, I promise. Can't wait for the next batch of free-DLC, TTT2, the game that don't stop giving, here's to the next ten years!

You do make some interesting points, Fuzaki. And your reasoning does make sense to me. But there is one particular point you make that is particularly significant for me. Of course, Mr. Harada, and his team, having to, as you say, make the same game in a different programming language, is very difficult, and this does waste resources.

This has bothered me in the past. These third-parties, such as Namco Bandai, Sega, Activision to name but a few of the many that exist, have to make a profit, as do all companies. The console makers need revenue from games too. This pushes up prices, and a consumer struggling for spare cash becomes upset naturally because they can't get the games they love. This is a problem, it means the company have to rip-off faithful consumers to balance the books. It's a lose-lose really.

Hopefully someone will figure something out though.

Of course competition makes things happen, you can't have a monopoly, because of rules, and naturally one trying to be better, but, it's difficult to make a profit and be fair on consumers under the current conditions. Something needs to change, I ain't sure what, but something.

Final post in a row, Again, I am so sorry, it's just that it wouldn't fit, I do go into a bit of detail with my posts. Onto Xbox. And the Protable Market. As for the Xbox, the true hurdle, for me, not necessarily for the vast majority, is Xbox Live, £39.99 a year, is a bit out of my reach, now, with the free version, you can stream movies, but you have to pay to play, which is the entire point of online gaming, so rather than charging for the extras, they charge you for the most important part, knowing people will get desparate and cough-up the money. This is sweet (for them) but very coercive money-making model, I don't know about any of you, but I am of the view this is unethical, even in the current climate where money is scarce, yet that's the exact thing that makes it worse for us, the consumers. Now, if you have a bit of money left over for your troubles (i.e the necessary evil of work), you won't be hurt by this model, it won't cause you strife, but for someone like me, who doesn't have a lot for this trouble, this is like being punched in the gut by Mike Tyson. As for the portable market, which is less crowded, PSVita and 3DS are going to be rather equal. No problems here, the portable with the best game selection will win, and we are yet to see, this is a grey area.

Again, Sorry. Now, done Sony, to Nintendo. Nintendo are well behind, in hardware capabillities, that is, the motion-sensing hardware war now in full swing with the PS Move, very much like a Wii controller in basic design, and Kinect, which is very different, but costs so much more, yet it expands the Xbox's lifespan by about 5 years, that's what they say anyway. Nintendo are thinking of different forms of interaction, whereas personally alot of us want a choice, stand up and dance, or sit down with a nice little glass of orange juice or Coca-Cola or Lemonade.

Sorry, I've had to split it into parts, my apologies. Well, let's see, shall we, Sony have a bloomin' expensive console, well over £300 when it first came out, it has finally started to drop, they have a fantastic disc-format, which no developer can fill-up, because of limitations to the rest of the hardware, well that's my theory, 3.2 Ghz Power PC based PPE, basically a Sony, Toshiba and IBM three-way collaboration cell-microprocessor, more expensive than the Xbox one, I would look more up but it'd take too much time, from what I have heard in the past though, I just think PS3 is just about to get into it's realistically sellable life, but Sony won't wait for the PS4, and the disc they'll use for that (forgot the abbbreviation for it) I know hold 1TB (1000 GB) on one layer, that is 40 times a single layer blu-ray, they are gonna need supercomputer hardware to match this. A 2 GB Graphics Card, 15GB Memory, and 21.7 Ghz Processor, these are rough guesses, you know.