Not hopping on the BF bundles because I don't care about Splatoon and pre-installed Smash would take up half the hard drive. I still might grab the Mario Maker bundle next month or something since I'm kinda not broke now.
On Vita homebrew, I've been thinking console manufacturers should just make legacy machines totally open once all official support has ended and the last licensed game has hit the end of its shelf life. Maybe they could still make a bit of money off hardware sales. And that also brings up an idea I've had for the whole "unified platform" discussion. Basically, I think there should exist an "open" console. You already got PC, but the total openness of the hardware leaves a higher barrier to entry than consoles. What I'd like to see is for a big tech company (like a Samsung or somebody) put out a single, beefy, controlled piece of hardware that's easy to aim for and understand, but leave the software completely open. You've got small examples of this like the Raspberry Pie and a bunch of homebrew consoles, but never one that wasn't niche. It'd be interesting to see one with PlayStation-level guts from a company capable of pushing it into retailers with a marketing campaign and getting developers both AAA and small on board, the advantage being no licensing fees. With no locked-down software I imagine AAA's would bring in Origin and UPlay while a bunch of other digital stores would show up. I never tried the Ouya but as I understand its problem was trying to be "open" while also funneling all its software into one store off of which it tried to make revenue.
Oh, and yeah, I need someone to come up with a portable x86 machine that can locally run my low-end Steam games. I don't think the Smach Zero is gonna be it, but we're getting there.
