Okay, I have to admit, I was really confused by how you described Sega’s role in the game development overall (though I confess, I occasionally forget that Atlus US is a division of Sega, the connection is rather downplayed, unlike Sega’s ownership of Creative Assembly and smacking their logo on all their game…

This is why I say it’s baseless assumption and conspiracy at best. We have no concrete reason to believe Sony paid for exclusive and both Sony/Sega are keeping tight lips when Sony has made several announcement regarding exclusives. It’s more unreasonable to assume that any publishers must straight out say “There is…

It’s worth noting also that—as I understand it—Sega will have nothing to do with publishing the game in Europe or Japan (where SNK is handling itself, and Deep Silver in Europe). More companies to be angry at for not saying a word, I guess there’s plenty of blame to go around. In Taiwan, we typically got the game in…

Your argument sounds reasonable, but you’ve bypassed some basic points.

I’ll have to disagree with you for the reasons outlined above—I don’t want to appear deliberately belligerent, but obviously I don’t think it’s an assumption without base.

A fair question: SNK-Playmore had a history of excellent support on for both the original Xbox and Xbox 360 for their 2D fighters (and brought over multiple Metal Slug titles over to Xbox Live Arcade). In fact, perhaps because of SNK’s past financial woes, KOF as a series has come Dreamcast and Nintendo platforms as…

Whoops, I read that “on Atari” and not “from Atari.” I tend to think of the game as being from Terminal Reality, not Atari (the publisher).

If it turns out Sony pulled a KOFXIV “moneyhat” here, I’m going to be pretty annoyed. On the other hand, this is Kingdom Hearts 3, so there was a possibility it was never coming out.

Belatedly, the Ghostbusters game on Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 was outstanding, if you didn’t play it. It’s worth checking out.

Okay, I have to admit—the dog redesigns of the extravagant Soviet-designed marble inlays and frescoes are super cute, as is the puppy in the vaguely militsyia-looking uniform. I’ll probably buy the game for them alone, even though I’m terrible at these sort of twitch retro games.

Well, except that all of the slim models lacked BC—but yes, we’ve established that there were original form-factors that lacked it too. The marketing phrase, “It only does everything,” is still very unfortunate.

Strange. Well, it still sucked that they remove the functionality nonetheless.

I’m really worried about this. KOFXIII, building upon a disappointing KOFXII, was such an amazing, even perfect game, that had almost everything I could’ve asked for. This...hasn’t looked that great, from the difficulty of transitioning to a 3D engine, to the choice in roster (even if it is at least not small).

Really? I had no idea that was the case. That’s...really, really weird. In the past that was understandable, given the lack of USB 3.0 support on consoles. But why now? A good 7200 RPM HDD (much less a USB SSD) should be an adequate or even superior alternative to the 5400 RPM that PS4s all come with (to my…

Really? I wasn’t aware of that all—fascinating. So there were large-size PS3s that lacked PS2 backwards compatibility, even in software form?

Really? I thought software backwards compatibility was still around on large models of the PS3. I have one of them.

Sadly, you’re out of luck it would seem.

As long as Sony doesn’t remove any functionality this time (optical audio out excluded), as they did back when the PS3 slim came out, I’m fine with it.

Well, this is embarrassing. I personally am glad that I don’t have a phone that’ll run Pokemon Go, and really hope there’s not a repeat of this any time soon.

The national government of Taiwan—in the sense that it controls a military force, runs national healthcare and police agencies, issues passports, delivers mails, collects taxes, etc.—is the Republic of China, founded around 1912 and having acquired Taiwan from the defeated Japanese Empire in 1945. The Republic of…