Main Street Electrical Parade? Holy smokes, insta-buy :D

Well said :)

I agree that 2007 was a watershed year for both the current generation AND for Microsoft in particular. I am not a fan of the Xbox brand in general (I own one for exclusives, though) but there was definitely something magical happening in 2007 that caused the entire gaming landscape to change. I would argue that the…

Well I hope they resume the trend this generation. I don't have time to play a new Pokemon game at the moment (backlog, personal life stuff, etc.) So I usually am able to count on a superior version of any Pokemon game coming out later, when I actually have time to spend completing everything in the game.

And Black/White 2 were entirely new games?

Gravity Rush is like the one game that makes me want a Vita soooooooo badly, even though I know I would rarely use the thing for anything else (I don't have time for portable gaming). I guess the Vita TV is the only chance I'll have to play this game at a somewhat reasonable price- so I hope that A.) they bring that…

Don't they always make an ultimate version of Pokemon like a year down the road? I'll just wait for that.

Yeah, I guess we'll have to revisit this conversation in a year. There's only two and a half more months left in the year though, and I don't think that development is going to just stop. I expect pretty full support of PS3/360 (and by extension- Wii U) by major publishers through the first half of 2015 at least. The…

Never underestimate how insecure some dudes are :)

I think development costs on Wii-U are very similar to that of 360 or PS3. It's more expensive than Wii, but less expensive than the upcoming next-gen platforms. If developers already have current gen development environments established, it shouldn't cost that much more than they currently spend to develop a game on…

I know it's new hardware, I'm saying that in the future, these costs will be diminished by tandem development. This game was always going to be a hard sell on the Wii-U. I'm just saying that the cost of developing the game for Wii U isn't the biggest obstacle facing Square Enix (I know it's expensive, but the core…

This was never really an exclusive, though. It was a re-release of a two-year-old game. Third party exclusives pretty much disappeared at the beginning of the generation, Wii managed to get a ton of exclusives because A.) It was low-tech, so development costs were closer to that of a PS2 game than a PS3 game, B.) It…

Not really- this is a port of a two year old game. If they brought new multi-platform titles at the same time as the other consoles, I'm sure they would do much better sales, and the development costs would be diminished by developing in tandem with the other platforms. If anything this is just proving how difficult…

Also, Costco didn't take down-payments for pre-orders/reservations. I think that's the main difference here. This company had a pre-order reservation procedure in which people could pay money months in advance to reserve a PS4, and then when they realized that the demand was much higher than they initially expected-…

I've only backed 2 kickstarter projects, but I hope that this isn't the norm (I'm still a long ways off from receiving either game). Has anyone here had such bad luck on a kickstarter project they've backed?

I can't wait to play this. I didn't pledge to the kickstarter, but I will definitely buy it when it comes out. This and the Ducktales remaster this summer are finally satisfying my urge to pogo my enemies >:)

Totally agree. Twilight Princess isn't a bad game at all- but it came out like a month after Okami. Okami was easily my 2006 GotY, and in my opinion- it out-Zelda'd Zelda that year. I'm still waiting for Nintendo to recapture the magic of Wind Waker without falling into the same pattern of redundancy that the series…

Wart was defeated in Mario's dream, so he moved to Koholint Island in Link's Awakening. Which- now that I think about it- was also a dream... whoa...
Anyway, I always liked Wart. I'm surprised he never showed up in a Kirby game because those also take place in a dream land.

I'm interested in playing this, but it's not a day-one buy. I'll wait until a drought in games that I'm interested in before I jump in. I'm a HUGE Super Mario fan, but I'm totally burnt out on New Super Mario Bros. games and by extension the Super Mario 3D games. I think the extreme linearity of the stages and extreme…

Thanks, Obama!