Other readers are sharing similar constructs in their cities; here's Atlanta's equivalent:

Mandatory.

Great read, Jason. You promised an article that would interest Nintendo fans, and you REALLY delivered. Thank you!!!

GET TO THE CHOPPA

Argh, the photo targeting doesn't work. Well, it's on the list above.

Whatever became of Ninja Gaiden 4? Never heard of it before now, and Google has no clues.

I seem to be in the minority here, but I think this is a pretty good idea. It might be a good "gateway" for folks like me who have never owned a Sony console but are interested in some of their exclusives.

Love me some Wondermark.

It's true. It's all true. Sigh

I realize initial sales of a game are important, but it's not like a movie with a limited theater run in which it makes a big chunk of its revenue. Heck, many (most?) movies these days earn more in DVD / Blu-ray sales / rentals / downloads than box office.

I can't believe I missed that! Good catch

Did anyone else notice the subtle "Metall" reference at 2:52?

I immediately thought of "guns akimbo" mode in Blood when I saw the title of this article. Glad to see the video's creator agrees with me that game is "criminally underrated". It's probably my favorite old DOS FPS!

It's tough even in larger cities. I live and work in downtown Atlanta and frequently travel to Dallas, Washington and Tampa, and until last week I'd only had three or four StreetPass hits outside of airports in two years of owning a 3DS. The StreetPass Georgia group had a meet-up last week which was great — check…

HALF-LIFE 3 CONFIRMED

Now I know!

As I mentioned elsewhere, it's all about global marketing these days. The internet forces companies to use the same name in all markets for consumer products like this. (Cars, by contrast, are marketed exclusively to narrow geographic areas.) But an iPad is an iPad in every country, every language. Sony went with…

You make an excellent point that I failed to recognize: had Nintendo announced a price cut any earlier than they did, sales would have dropped to zero for several weeks (or months). As it is, they didn't have much farther to fall, so Nintendo can afford (?) to go about another month with nearly no new sales.

Right. But part of the reason Nintendo said they went with "Wii" in the first place was it's ease of pronuunciation in most languages, and like most companies these days, they use a global marketing strategy; hence uniformity in naming. iPhone is iPhone in every country, not "iTelefonieren" in Germany, for example.

Except the Japanese word for 2 is "Ni".