As excited as I am about Xenoblade coming out in April finally, I'm kind of bummed that Nintendo has specifically said that Wii games won't be able to run at higher resolutions on the WiiU. I was actually _kinda_ hoping, back when nintendo was refusing to comment on whether they would ever give North America some…

Not sure how you know already that the WiiU is going to be underpowered; it looks like it will use another decent enough IBM POWER derived CPU, and a Radeon 4xxx derived GPU. I dunno if you've ever played a game on a computer with a 48xx/49xx card and a middling CPU; that described pretty perfectly my computer's specs…

Not to speak for Kotaku (or any other tech blog that covers mobile games, gets heat for it) but I tend to think their "fixation" is more a factor of a personal analysis of their actual gaming habits and those of people around them. I love my DS as I loved my GBA before it, but it would be a lie to suggest that my…

Not really sure what you're getting at...my point was that there is no way for me to judge this game without playing it, and I'm not going to just hand namco 12 dollars to find out. Of course I know for a fact that YOU liked beautiful katamari for Xbox, so you don't mind handing over good money to namco for something…

It seems to me the problem with this is less the price than it is the lack of ability to demo the game's controls, which are obviously the main factor in whether or not a given potential buyer would want to take the plunge and get it. Based on the relatively small number of iTunes reviews so far they sound good, but…

Gamestop is essentially the sole retailer for this game in the USA, I think if you want to guarantee you get a copy a good rule of thumb is to have your reserve in by 6 weeks before it comes out.

Play it how you want, as long as you buy a copy instead of pirating it, doesn't really matter to me what hardware you use to enjoy it on. Personally found dolphin way too much of a CPU hog/pain in the ass for my PC, which has a nice GPU but a fairly middlin (old) CPU, not to mention trying to get the wiimotes working…

It supports it, I'm just saying contrary to what alot of people were saying about it before I tried it, I actually preferred using the nunchuk and wiimote. I actually really liked the camera in the game, and got so used to using the d-pad on the wiimote to manipulate it that its kind of screwing with me trying to play…

How much Wii shall a Nunchuk chuk, if a Nunchuk could chuk Wii?

Personally think this is the best JRPG I played in the last decade. I put over 100 hours in it already, and I'm STILL excited to buy my North American copy and start over from scratch.

Also pretty sure that, like with most cellphones, using the 3G antenna will hurt battery life. By getting the 3G model you're essentially paying more for a feature that will make the device LESS portable if you actually use it regularly. Seems puzzling to me what the actual use case would be for that in the USA, at…

If there are any "new consoles" at E3 from Sony or MS, I'm pretty sure they are going to be essentially running on dev kits showing either non interactive demos or very basic stuff like the WiiU had last year. I will be incredibly shocked if either show anything that is even close to ready for production, or reveal…

Exclusives seem kind of irrelevant when the 360 versions of big multi-platform games routinely outperform their PS3 counterparts. There have been a couple exceptions, but mostly with games like FFXIII that came from traditionally playstation-centric series or developers.

Personally feel like the problem is that there is a general sense of entitlement among people who choose to vocally identify themselves as "hardcore" gamers on the internet. As the actual profit centers of the game industry are slowly shifting away from the type of products that those people have typically enjoyed,…

Yeah RAM is the major issue with running higher resolution than 720p. Current consoles have enough to do it, but it leaves very little RAM to run the AI and other things that games require to run.

Heh, the WiiWare FF Crystal Chronicles games were really be their first major steps into a realm of DLC_focused gaming, I would think.

Really, you're "born corrupted"? No lover of the super-rich am I, but that seems like an incredibly hateful position to take, children can and do learn from the mistakes of their elders at times; it often seems like it never happens, but it does. Do you similarly believe that people born poor are "pure", and only…