Like others have stated. PC Gaming hardware is anywhere from $500 on up. Every couple of years you do have to do some type of video card or other hardware upgrade. So this is where IMHO Console is King. Once the Snake Pliskin EMP Zaps all the DLC Servers in the world of lets say Nintendo. You lose all the wiiware you can DL and play. But fear not! I'll whip out my trust NES/SNES and bust it on A/V and play away. Now while we're lucky that we have PC Emulation to carry older titles to newer OS/Hardware when was the last time anyone here whipped out their 5 1/4 Floppy of Kings Quest or 3.5" discs of Leisure Suit Larry 3 to play on a PC. Eventually w/o some type of Emulation on the PC we can't carry some pieces of software on. But again I can whipe out a 25 year old console thats never been repair and it still works. While I do my fair amount of PC Gaming which cant be done on a console. I do prefer console as well. I smell large amounts of trolling on this news story. The only games that I can understandably require a online key or a RSA Keypuck are online RPGS (WoW, Final Fantasy). Only required online games would require such a key. To get most PS3 games to require an online constant key would be friggin suicide. Tales of Valkyria 2, Disgea 3, etc. etc. offline RPGS. If Sony tries to pull this off basically its going to push more and more people to the 360 and other competing formats. Sony screwed up and thats that. Their DRM/security team who designed the schema for the PS3 should be fired and thats that. Its game over. Time for a PS4 and learn to do it right this time. The xbox1 was hackable w/o a doubt and M$ learned their lesson quite well from their hodge-podge assembly of the Xbox1. Granted the 360 is slightly hackable but it isnt as Succeptable to hacks as the PS3. I find it amazing that GeoHotz was able to do this that many people farming PCs where trying to do cracking the master key for the xbox1.

Why is this even a story.. This mobile payment system has been around for quite awhile. Its not something new that launched last week. Locally to me the only known Starbucks that has this technology is in Target which I rarely go to but never get anything from that location. Even my most visited Starbucks doesnt have this and its in a very busy city location. And yes, still waiting on a android version of this software.

Ive been a subscriber to XBL for over 2 years now. When I first joined I didn't or never payed the retail $50 a year. I thought it was crazy. It wasn't until some random sales of kindness came about where 12year+1month cards came out for $30 via Ebay daily deal, buy.com,amazon,you name it. This would happened about every 3-6 months. I scored 2 cards because I figure 2 for almost the price of one. So as of the last sale and mostly through buy.com i scored 3 more cards. So basically I have the next 5 years worth of cards for $30. And I'm very sure that during some black-friday sale somewhere on the internet it will happen again. Stock up and save is what I say.

god dam google translator.. Its BIC Camera not bikku.. cuz since they phoeneticize their language itll come up that way in translate McDonalds = macDonarudos if it was bikku camera the website would be bikku.com but alas its http://www.biccamera.com/

1) Insert popcorn 2) Push popcorn button 3) wait 4) When popcorn is ready instead of a chime you'll get: DROID!!! DROID!!! DROID!!! DROID!!! DROID!!! DROID!!! DROID!!! DROID!!! Only if you can program the replacement chime :)

and did u know he only got $100k for the role in Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan. Very bum deal on his end..

I agree.. I give Reward Zone telephone #. Which has my address which I get those not so cool coupons in the mail. I bet even if you paid this in cash they'd still find you based on your reward zone information. I am very surprised nobody else thought of mentioning this except this post.

Look at South Korea. There will be a great resurgance again once StarCraft ][ comes out.

I wouldnt call it interesting I would call this informative.

Please restate request.

Sadly enough this site blows goes. I get errors and when I click on things it logs me out or 404. I am part of club nintendo japan and that site works like clock-work. Get game, input coupon, answer a few questions and points are posted. The American site seems very similar to respect when inputting a code. The only code of mine that carried over was Mario Party 8. As it stands right now its way too much effort to get 'coins'. Hopefully they'll get it right here soon because as it stands they are having a meltdown.