Dvader said:

I will start ME1 today. Any advice?

Focus on speech and persuasion. Have fun.

Steel, did I ever show you this? This is my brothers old band from late 80's/ early 90's....everybody thinks its Warbringer that I show them to. Good shit.

Peach 3DS case.

Yoda congrats!!!!

Gamasutra said:

Just how badly did uDraw 360/PS3 hurt THQ, anyway?


THQ is going to have a hard time offloading its remaining inventory of uDraw video game tablets.


The accessory, which debuted with a big marketing splash for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 this past holiday after a healthy Wii debut the year prior, failed to ignite consumer interest, resulting in a sell-through of fewer than half the units THQ manufactured.


Its failure was a surprise to the company, given its healthy Wii sales and the results of two independent studies that suggested the company was addressing a sizable untapped market by expanding its uDraw lineup.


"We were confident that uDraw would resonate again this holiday, given last year's robust sell-through," CEO Brian Farrell told investors in a conference call on Thursday.


"Our confidence was misplaced."

The company's overestimation is staggering. In all, THQ has sold through 1 million units to stores, many of which are still there, often in the bargain bin. That leaves it stuck with 1.4 million more left unsold in its warehouses.


The result of this misstep, according to the company, is a reduction of $100 million dollars in sales for its crucial holiday quarter, $80 million of that directly related to its excess inventory of uDraw hardware, and $20 million related to its software and a hit taken on selling some of its inventory at a loss.


In terms of income, the company attributes over $30 million of its $54.6 million operating loss just to the uDraw.


Hardware production has of course ceased, and software support for the device seems to be dead as well. THQ says it has developed a plan to move that remaining inventory through retail channels, but other than that, the company has "no other remaining commitments with respect to uDraw," according to Farrell.


"We were looking at uDraw as a bridge to this core and digital future, and that bridge turned out to be a plank that we walked off of," said Farrell.

So, no PS3 only owners left here to complain about the 2 month 360 exclusivity for the RE6 demo?

Vita case

edgecrusher said:

It doesn't make any sense to me...why have a demo as a 2 month exclusive on ANY console? Let alone a demo that you can only get by BUYING another game. Dvader has a 360 now, which Resident evil,  outside of Move support, is usually better on 360 anyway...so he doesn't mind.

I assumed it meant a 2 month delay on the download demo.

So bored.

Read this.

Develop said:

Sony cannot go on like this, says CEO Hirai


New boss warns of 'serious trouble' ahead unless sweeping changes are made


Sony’s CEO-in-waiting has admitted he now faces an even tougher challenge than when he had to revive PlayStation’s fortunes, and has warned that the electronics empire must adapt or “could be sitting in some serious trouble”.


Kazuo Hirai, the SCE chairman who will become Sony chief executive on April 1st, is preparing to make sweeping changes across the entire global operation.


"I don't think everybody [at Sony is yet on board with the changes], but I think people are coming around to the idea that if we don't turn this around, we could be sitting in some serious trouble,” Hirai said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.


Sony yesterday said it expects to make a loss of $2.9 billion in the year ending March 31st – more than double its previous estimate.


"I thought turning around the PlayStation business was going to be the toughest challenge of my career, but I guess not," Hirai said in his interview, which was conducted before the company’s financial report.

"It's one issue after another. I feel like 'Holy s—, now what?'"


Hirai took charge of the PlayStation business in 2006 when then-SCE president Ken Kutaragi revealed to the Sony board that PlayStation would lose $2 billion for the financial year.


Once appointed Kutaragi’s successor, the 51 year-old Hirai quickly took steps to reduce the cost of producing PlayStation 3 units to end the haemorrhaging cash flow at SCE.

Big calls


Now as Sony’s next CEO, Hirai has pledged to again make tough decisions, and will review more than 20,000 Sony products.


“Sony cannot continue walking on the same path,” Hirai said yesterday at the investor meeting.


“Sony needs to find new business areas, such as medical. We also need to select and narrow our business portfolio.”


He said Sony “cannot just continue to be a great purveyor of hardware products, even though some people expect us to do that".


Hirai wants the firm to focus on the user-experience itself. He said the key questions for hardware in production at Sony should be “What can you do with the product? What are your services? What kind of content do you have?”


He added: “It’s not just about the hardware product, it’s about the user experience.”


Sony’s shares rose as much as 8.9 per cent in Tokyo trading, the biggest daily gain since April 2009