As my name may give away yes, I am quite the fan of retro games. Although that hasn't got anything to do with it. I just found II more enjoyable than XIII, and at the end of the day surely our gaming experiences should be judged on how much we enjoy them? Granted, you clearly enjoyed XIII more. Nothing wrong with…

II isn't brilliant, but it is a hell of a lot more how I envision Final Fantasy than XIII ever was. I'd choose II over XIII any day of the week.

I don't even trust Square Enix to do justice by the Chrono series name any more. And unless they can actually make Final Fantasy XV good I will continue to hold no hope.

I bought the basic model, purely because I wanted a white system and, rather stupidly, Nintendo didn't do a white premium at launch. I was the first to get the Wii U in my town, and the only one, according to the staff, to get the basic. I just banged a flash drive into the back of the console to save my game data to.…

So true my fine sir, so true.

One JPRG that pops to mind reading this is Phantasy Star II. When I played it for the first time it annoyed me quite a bit, but I couldn't help but love it. When I finished it I was glad to see the back of it, but sad that it had come to an end. And do you know what? I wouldn't change any bit of it. Despite hating it,…

That looks very nice.

Those sales figures for Europe are fairly old there though.

While the sales of the Xbox 360 across Europe aren't anything to rave about, here in Great Britain, to my knowledge, the Xbox 360 has proven more popular than the PS3. Everyone I know seems to have an Xbox 360, yet hardly anyone other than myself owns a PS3.

Well thank you Microsoft, this seems to settle it. It looks like my console combinational this generation will be the PlayStation 4 and Wii U, and what I would have spent on the Xbox One will now be spent upgrading my PC. You've just made it easy for myself. Truly, thanks Microsoft.

Actually Sega's strongest region back then was Europe, in terms of percentages. In Great Britain the Mega Drive outsold the SNES 3-1.

Mega Drive sales = 40 million
SNES sales = 49 million.

It's true, both were close, but the Mega Drive launched over a year before the SNES. The SNES never replicated the success of the NES, but there wasn't any strong competition for the NES.

Generally, when it comes to Nintendo, people seem to love their games but hate their hardware. It wasn't always like this, the NES and Super NES were fantastic, but since the Nintendo 64 the general consensus is that Nintendo hardware is crap. The amount of times I hear "Zelda would be fantastic on PlayStation" or…

What do you mean 90's consoles wasn't really exciting? Are you forgetting the SNES and PlayStation - the two best consoles ever made?

I'd buy this if I had the money, I won't even lie about it. And if I owned it I'd turn down 15 grand because I wouldn't want to sell it.

This is my wallpaper at the moment.

"American gamers love first-person shooters, but imagine a game console that didn't have any. Imagine one with no Call of Duty and no Battlefield. No Metro Last Light. No Wolfenstein. No big new FPS from Bungie. No big FPS from Respawn. No Killzone. No Halo. No Counter-Strike. NoBioShock. No Borderlands."

With the…

Well I can also agree that there was definitely some deeper reason to why he did this, to his own Mother of all people.

There's definitely something deeper then both video games and guns, but I'm sick of reading comments about how you can't blame the gun. Sure, there have been instances of murders in America that could still have been committed with a knife as easily as a gun. But there have also been countless instances of murders…

You can't defend the gun. Video games were make to entertain people. Guns were made TO KILL THINGS! Regardless of how integrated guns are into America society, this is a fact. Sure, guns don't fire on their own. But that doesn't cover the fact that their purpose, above all else, is to kill things - whether human or…