Not too many more. There's probably a lot of people that check the forums and only see the four sections. They might be afraid that most discussions are based on hardware/software sales and that be that. With a few more options it could lead to a larger active forum-base.

I like the forums as they are, more categories or even sub-categories would make it more difficult to find interesting threads.

IMO, I'd do this for forums: Website Disussion (as it is now) Sales Thread (relating to the sales of general h/w and s/w) Nintendo Systems (Games & Sales Data) Playstation Systems (Games & Sales Data) Microsoft Systems (Games & Sales Data) Then the OT forum That way your deleting the games section (as it always ends up a discussion about game X on console Y), and replacting it with individualized forums for the 3 companies. It wouldn't be too hard to discuss. or heck, even remove the sales forum in favor of the 3 forums to further curb bashing threads.

good idea mrstickball, but I would at least leave the sales discussion section as it is, because the most interesting thing is to compare the different consoles and the performances of their games compared to the ones of the other consoles.

I think for such a small forum 1 forum is more then enough actually, id much rather have it all in one shot, it's only when huge forums come around that dividing is nice.

I think it's good the way it is. If people are too lazy to search deeper inside the website, then they are going to be too lazy to leave better posts.

anyone else notice its the recent 20 forum posts on front page instead of 5?

I tend to agree. Throwing all the different fans into one big melting pot is more interesting - a mix of different opinions leads to much more interesting debate.

I find single platform forums are so dull - except when the locals turn on each other anyway - people just love to argue it seems :)

I disagree. I think all is fine. You can post anything you want in the 4 categories.