So given the appearance of Birdo and Waluigi we can conclude that Delfino Island is sort of the Devil's Island of the Nintendo universe. Unwanted characters (and whole games like Super Mario Sunshine) are sent there to live out their remaining days where they can do no more harm to the rest of society?

Maybe we should wait to see what Sony considers "ingame XMB" to actually be before celebrating. After all, they have different definitions for things like "full backwards compatability" and "hardware scaling" than a normal person. Some of us still remember when Sony announced support for "hardware scaling" and…

Hasn't this quote and analysis been repeated every two months for the last year and half? The only time the DS hardware will peak and take a downturn is when Nintendo launches a new handheld. That could be in as little as one month, but for now...

Funny the only talking point PS3 owners seem to bring up anytime someone says "The 360 has a great library," is "But the 360 have the red ring of death" when any system made within last year is pretty much free of the problem. Meanwhile, go over to AVSForum and see lots of people reporting their PS3 refusing to read…

The headline should be "Gaming sites still inexplicably quote analyst with track record worse than flipping a coin".

There is a free demo version with 1/4 the final content (which represents more of the final game than the $40 GT5 Prologue) so why complain about getting the full creature editor for $10 (which is subtracted off the final console price)? Some people are going to just play with the creature editor and not even get the…

I don't think the guys in the first picture are for the launch event. I mean, I can see people dressed like that every night on the streets of SF. :-)

Could it be that Take Two doesn't want the FTC to find something fishy with their books. 5 million dollars to fight EA's takeover bid? Sorry, it costs nothing to "just say no". Maybe members of Take Two's board did something else (illegal) with that money. It's happened before at TT

I guess he didn't know his company made that stinky Don King boxing game- which is much worse than any iteration of Fight Night...

@Kukuk: Square walked away from a ten year relationship from Nintendo when Nintendo took them for granted and treated them poorly. Sony just isn't delivering the sales anymore and their system is a pain to work with. Why WOULDN'T Square go multiplatform especially when porting to the 360 adds little extra cost and…

Funny how EA has the reputation of treating employees like slaves, yet Ubisoft is the company that holds all its employees to non-compete work contracts- effectively making any Ubisoft employee an indentured servant (unless they want to work at McDonalds for a year after leaving Ubisoft).

So Apple is Good and Microsoft is evil yet Apple is the one charging for the privilege just to browse their online store? Kind of like how EA is evil, but they made Rock Band work with Gutiar Hero controllers, but Activision is good but they tried to block Rock Band from working with GH devices (and Sony let them). We…

Pachter missed two additional things: 1) Star Wars:Clone Wars is being distributed theatrically by Warner Bros (not Fox), so LucasArts is in bed with WB. 2) TT can't work on any Harry Potter games unless WB cuts a new deal with EA (whom he now speculates is in bed with LucasArts) because EA holds exclusive game rights…

Pachter's analysis (as usual) is flawed and shallow. The idea that WB won't let TT work on a Paramount game because Paramount would reap the rewards is silly because money is money and as the owner of TT, WB ultimately gets the lion's share of any TT revenue. Note that LucasArts/Paramount had no issue with including a…

Jack says he's being discriminated against because of his religion? Yeah, older white male Christians are REALLY treated as second class citizens in the U.S., particularly Florida. Also, his argument that the court can't do anything to him because his actions are based on "religious impulse" is laughable. Tell that to…