To be fair, Soccer is nearly as popular as Basketball and Hockey. It's nowhere near Baseball and Football, but a few generations from now when football stops being played in high schools and colleges due to concussions, things might change.

The rest of the world is fine with American Football. The Super Bowl is watched by billions of people. Your calling it 'pussied-out Rugby' makes your opinion quite clear and cancels out your "Don't be a party-pooper"comment.

How about "Sorry, you have to pay what the rest of the world pays."

Why in God's name would you preorder a game that's at the very least 2 and a half years away?

Ok, leaving money aside, it still is about 3 times as popular as any other MMO. 7 million people should be left in the dust because...it's old?

While you are technically correct, the reason is because the Wii U is only slightly more powerful than a 360 and a PS3. The only games it gets are ports from current gen consoles and Nintendo made games that are WAY less powerful than anything you're going to get on the next gen consoles.

Regardless of 720/1080/900p…

Having heard from people that are actually in the business and not just from people that think it should be a certain way, it's not just a matter of spinning up more servers. Servers cost a hell of a lot of money. You never see the same amount of load on your servers that you do when you launch. You're basically…

I don't know/care about any cycle. After Ocarina of Time Nintendo has been quite happy to just use that template over and over again with little change, right down to the overlong tutorial intros and the non-stop annoying reminders every time you pick up anything. After the hell that was Skyward Sword, they're…

Maybe they're trying to figure out what's so special about an HD upgrade from two generations ago that it costs the same as a full price game? Both the PS3 and 360 got HD upgrades/remakes of games that retailed for $20-$30. In the case of Ratchet and Clank / Jak / Etc., They included multiple games. Halo…

Er, there's going to be some restrictions on that. You can't just add all your friends. It's going to be limited to your household I promise you.

Having seen what the Kinect has to offer, I'd beg to differ. If the Kinect is the extra $100, leave it out. There hasn't been one damn thing that worked well for the Kinect on the 360 and nothing shown is different on the One.