Essentially that's how Japan became an economical superpower: cheap knock offs of everything (cars for instance). But then they started doing more innovative work. In the end it paid off.

By the way, if it implemented the legal system of another country (and legal systems can be vastly different), would you also be disappointed? It essentially boils down to its own legal system that stands on its own.

Where would be the fun in that? :)

The current Kinect for Windows costs 2.5 times what the Xbox Kinect costs.

Afaik Odin Sphere and Muramasa are internally known as "Princess Crown V2" and "V3" respectively... not sure where I read that though. Need to check.

Personally, I found both Serah and Noel much less annoying than Snow.

It's an electronic viewfinder.

This is not a micro 4/3 camera.

That I agree one, but it doesn't hurt Nintendo to at least be politically aware and try not to be politically offensive. They don't need to make a political message, but at least be politically aware enough not to step on any landmine.

They don't even have asians, so what you do expect.

Men have a desire to mate. Protecting/rescuing makes them think they have a higher chance of doing so.

But that's what Miyamoto said. He didn't say there were no women before the DS who were playing (many of my childhood female friends did).

"Proper Procedure" in the game is actually quite well defined, just not how it is in the real world (considering that even in the real world, it differs from country to country). The game has its own legal system, basically.

Personally, I found it had a sense of mystery and exploration (since the overworld is actually filled with lots of secret places) that I've found lacking ever since the 3D Zeldas...

What are those non-casual gamers? Most of them probably are kiddies who haven't even been born during the glory days of NES and SNES.

That's bullshit. Soldiers ARE sometimes in a location where there is power, but no Internet.

You cannot put all Chinese into one category. And no, that's not "China in a nutshell", China has a far greater tradition as a civilization, even if the communist party tried to delete all of that cultural history, it's still there.

Research and Science at Peking U isn't bad actually.

We need to look at the latin origins. A crucifix is indeed a cross with someone affixed to it (or with the intention to). Because, a simple cross alone would be called "crux". The -ifix ending is essentially the same thing as the -ify ending (same origin), i.e. it's a word about what you do WITH the cross rather than…

Especially since it's a portable system. I remember traveling around the world as a child, and I did buy Gameboy games in foreign countries (I actually bought Rockman 4 on Gameboy in Taiwan). It's pretty limiting to have a portable system that still recognizes stupid region borders. Portable systems should be…