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2007's Ten Biggest Gaming Letdowns

Posted by Zonk on from the no-fracking-littlebigplanet dept.

Game|Life offers up an anti-top-ten list, noting the three blog authors' biggest disappointments from 2007. Chris Kohler's biggest letdown echoes my own feelings on this topic: "No LittleBigPlanet. PlayStation 3's software library got significantly better this holiday, but there's no killer app. I honestly don't know if LittleBigPlanet would have been one. But I think it's going to be mine. It's going to be the thing that glues me to PlayStation 3... when it ships. I was all ready to start building worlds and sharing them with my friends and generally start being a jackass by now, but it won't happen until next year -- late next year, if you believe the rumors. I hope they're not true. And I do hope LittleBigPlanet sets the planet on fire when it releases." Any gaming 'event' this year an epic fail for you?

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  1. Re:My biggest let down of 2007 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I had sex with my girlfriend's mum, that was pretty disappointing. I mean, she was pretty damn good, but the age difference didn't bring the experience I thought it would, both her daughters are much better! My girlfriend out, btw, and dumped me, but three months later I'm still fucking all three of them! The best thing, though, is that I'm not joking! So, not that disappointing after all :D

  2. MS certainly knows how (subtle) monopolies work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Interesting to see how MS illustrates that "Foreclos[ing] competition by restricted access to [...] APIs" is a central problem (see page 3 of the PDF.) Also the phrase "End-to-End Control of Dominant Pipeline, foreclosing rival[s]" is interesting, since Microsoft typically controls the user desktop experience in just this way, shutting out competitors to all their bundled products.

    The PDF shows that MS is aware of the ways to become anti-competitive through bundling, control and monopoly. No surprise to most of us, but it takes chutzpah to use an illustration of your own internal strategy to argue against anti-competitive practices of your competitors.