@HobbaHobba: If they can't fit the Japanese track on the disks, they could just release it as a free DLC pack like they did with that Naruto game.

Sorry, but this is about as exciting as a PSP game getting ported to the PS2- i.e. not very.

Given how close this is to FFXIII and that FFXI was pretty mediocre (in both quality and sales), you just know this game is getting Square/Enix's "B" team. I'm betting they aren't even getting as much development resources from S/E as the next FF title for the Wii.

MEMORY STICK MICRO!!!! They ditched the unpopular, overpriced memory stick duo slot (yeah!) only to replace it with the one thing even more expensive and unpopular (boo!). Why not go with the rest of the planet and use SDHC or SDXC (to be really forward thinking)? This fetish for proprietary formats ("Anything you…

Did Ubisoft delude themselves into thinking that millions of sales equates to people liking the game? I mean, this game was the poster child for taking a mediocre (that's being generous) title, slapping some bad motion controls onto it, and then pushing onto the unsuspecting masses. It was a launch title, so the…

So Phil Harrison's resume now reads something like "After taking Sony from first to last place in the console business and putting it into a near-unrecoverable death-spiral, I left to work the same magic on Atari/Infogrames."

They should change their corporate logo to a frenchman with a croquet mallet beating a horse's corpse.

Funny with Warner getting Atari arcade games back after all this time. When Warner first bought Atari in the 70s, it was the fastest growing company in history- which Warner systematically ran into the ground. Warner, after all, invented the concept of the god awful movie tie-in videogame in the form of E.T. With…

Anybody think to get last year's roundtable and see how their predictions panned out? I mean, as we've seen with Michael Pachter, most of these self-proclaimed experts have a success rate slightly below a blind chimp throwing darts at a board. Still waiting for that $100 PS3 price drop Pachter said was happening…

If you make enough random guesses, SOME of them are bound to come true. You just hype the one's you randomly got right and pretend the (large number of) wrong guesses don't exist. Michael Pachter 's whole career is based on that technique.

"From the recreational drugs that brought you Katamari Damacy!"

No surprise here. Atari (really Infogrames) is the next Midway. Just like Midway had to get Ubisoft to publish Wheelman, Atari doesn't even have the money to publish in Europe (their home territory) their only big title. They won't be around next year. Question is, who now will buy the Atari name and IP?

What good lawyer (or anyone with common sense) takes the longest shot first when there are four other options with better chances?

@Mit: Component and VGA are quite capable of doing 1080p (and can on the 360). Blu-ray players are not allowed to display 1080p over component (but they are over VGA) but that is a Hollywood artificial restriction and not a technical limitation.

Nintendo should consider making a Wii that does nothing really new except output HD (maybe throw in upscaling DVD playback and Netflix). They could call it the iWii or Wii-i. Sell it for $250 and drop the Wii "Classic" by $50.

@deathly: Given that Sony sneered at Netflix on the 360, wouldn't this just be Sony admitting (again) that they were wrong and playing catchup? Just like with rumble? And going with (and messing up) software BC? And ditching UMD?

The Onlive guys can't even keep their BS numbers straight. They previously said 720p 60fps would require 5 Mbits/sec. That number is already way too low for quality video, but even if they could hit that low of a bandwidth requirement, that equals about 2.2 GB per hour. How can these guys develop revolutionary…

@HioMrSan: "Was it even a hot day?"

Who is this for? Assuming you have a perfect connection and their video compression works as well as they say (it won't, but let's assume), they still can't get around the lag issue for all games. Fighting games? Forget it. FPSs? A single-player campaign where the enemies teleport around and you miss sniping…

Circuit City didn't buy used consoles (they aren't GameStop) so these units were likely warranty swaps. It's no wonder the vast majority of them didn't work since they were broken to begin with. That also explains why the owner didn't wipe the hard drive clean- they couldn't because the console was already broken. …