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It hasn't so much been the console price dipping. PS4 deals have mostly been had through supermarket codes (codes which can actually be applied to near enough any product). This is the first I've seen of a really hot deal that hasn't involved some sort of discount coupon. To be honest, I'd also be surprised if lots of other retailers started selling it at 300 too. Regarding a cut for Christmas...do they need to? They could, but they probably don't need to. The X1 has just dropped in price so it'd seem weird to get another so soon. So does PS4 need to be priced lower than its competition when it is technically the more powerful machine, especially when people want it more already? I'd say no. Could be wrong, but £300 with say a new game (ie. one with at least £40 or so extra value to be really worth holding off for a half year) seems a bit much.

Pro tip: read and don't behave like a miscreant. I said it would likely not be £300 with games. It is currently £300 at one retailer without games. I don't see another £40-50 or so drop in a deal (by way of an included game) being on the cards, unless Sony officially cuts the price. ShopTo are selling it at £50 below RRP already - how much more can they trim? We can only guess, but I'm guessing 'not much'. I doubt it'd get too much better, if at all until a cut happens. People actually want the PS4, this side of the world. Japan situation is also irrelevant for the purpose of UK deals.

Started playing this yesterday on PS4. Looks really nice! Most of the issues I had with ACIII seem to be gone (mostly the washed out environments and somewhat boring main character). Also played a little multiplayer - slightly depressing to see the introduction of a prestige element now.

It's easy to see it as a saving of only £15-20 or so over some current bundle deals, but really, how much more fat than £50 is there for retailers left to trim without Sony cutting the price? At the moment there just doesn't seem to be reason for them to do it. This seems like the best or joint best deal I can imagine we'll see for a while.

Damn, that's good. At £50 off I seriously doubt you'll get better than that for a good while (demand for PS4 is still pretty good). I'd say you're hoping for a miracle there, bite before it's gone! At best I can imagine a deal would be 350 with game, which will mean this is still cheaper.

As I've said before when that argument has been raised, a lot of games back then had problems that needed to be patched...but alas, couldn't be. It's rare either now or in the past that a game has a bug that totally wrecks the game, rather other annoying issues that at least now can be patched. You've also got to factor that games now are far more complex than they ever were. Games like Skyrim can go wrong in a seemingly infinite number of ways. They would literally never be able to release that game if they were to release it bug free, testing it using their own limited number of staff/testers as opposed to the public.

I so wish PSO2 would be localised. They said it would be and it never was. Damn them.

Well, that's the ideal. I'd be mesmerised if a game ever actually achieved such.

It's a shame that these have gone so expensive because they really are pretty cheap feeling. Compared to something like the Gamecube controller, this feels like a complete afterthought and the button placement does not feel right at all. That said, it's still preferable to the gamepad for a lot of games that don't need the screen.

I don't think it's a mistake, more the tendency for people to abbreviate. 360 was often called Xbox, while people would probably refer to their own iPad Air as just an iPad.

I'll wait until whenever Tesco ship it. The £5 saving is well worth it I think, can't stand paying near £40 for a game.

I played Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons the other day. Damn, that was really sad. It went from frustrating control method to something that was pretty integral to the story and less annoying as the game went on. Really liked the Majora's Mask style noises the people made too.

PS4 has already technically dropped 40-50 (quite a few deals where it's 350 with a game now). I don't see it being 300 with games for a while yet.

Not hypocritical at all. You are the guys telling people what not to post ('don't post the same negative XYZ'). He is telling you not to tell people what to post as you really have no right. You interpret that as him doing the same. Come on, really? So telling people they have no right to order people about is behaving exactly the same as the people they reprimand. Ridiculous argument is ridiculous. Shame on you.

Yeah, spot on. A lot of the time it feels like insecurity. Certain people are so attached to a franchise or purchase they've made that they can't bear to hear criticism against it. It's not that the comments are boring and repeated, because as you say, absolutely nothing is said to people repeating 'this looks amazing', and so on. These people need to either put the critical people they can't stand on ignore or bring up other subjects. In calling out critics all they achieve is the absolute opposite of what they want.

It's not too loud, we can still talk over it. Certainly louder than a fan though. For us it's handy since our flat gets hot and we can set it so it comes on before we get back from work and shuts off.

Pretty much how I feel about people complaining about any generally negative criticism against Nintendo around these parts too.

999 is easily my favourite DS game. So much win. Virtue's Last Reward lets you skip through most repeated stuff which is pretty cool.

....Clank?

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Well that's fantastic. Would read again. Heaven knows what shade of puce he is right now.

@dazzybee I never have, and likely never will, value your input on anything. You pretty much just complain about this forum non stop and never seem to actually offer up anything particularly contributory yourself. This was in reply to his now deleted post.

Stop now. Another case of negligent parenting. You've got a variety of options there: delete the details, create a child account, use parental settings, use gift cards. Tell me how parents can fail at every step and it's still not their fault? Also tell me how any video game e-shop (including Nintendo's) does not allow kids to go nuts in the same way either?

Shame on them for wanting to make money. Nobody is forcing you to buy it and you can't defend parents that leave their credit details on these things. The kids could have just have easily gone into the Nintendo e-shop and bought every game on there.

I think as well you have to factor in the cost associated with making these, which while I don't know what it is, we could probably speculate. Serebii said something like Skylanders exclusivity would have cost Nintendo more than the entirety of the Wii U has had it flopped due to the cost of the things (which I don't think is really accurate, but I'd imagine there is at least some overhead in manufacturing these). If it didn't become popular enough, it'd probably be a loss for Nintendo and somewhat damaging.