@Lord Argon: I just meant that calling it a piracy device only covers a small portion of what it does,.

I wouldn't call it a "piracy device." You might as well say the same about a DVD-RW drive.

@Altima NEO: Don't you love the shameless butthurtedness in this thread?

@AncientUnknown1: Umm, hating shitty bands has been cool for as long as shitty bands have existed.

#corrections

@Steven Callas: Yes please.

@VincentGrey: +1

Bummer - I would have paid $200 for this.

@Tacticalspoon: I think he's right - I saw this and figured something glitched - Kotaku doesn't usually break their own width format.

@Altima NEO: Yes, Skate or Die! The pool was way too hard though...

@psydanman: 1383264 seconds by my calculations.

@madammina: Damn you for not dropping out of college to play DQ8!!!

@madammina: It is PS2. I started DQIX a few days ago and it reminded me of DQ8 and now I am back starting DQ8 all over again. It is immersive - HUGE world and everything you can see, way off in the distance - you can explore to. No gate-loading one zone to another - it is like Oblivion in that respect - a true…

@TheOvermatt: Yeah, I won't be able to play with other people, but I'll just have to treat this as an opportunity to put my heart into 4 characters instead of one :)

@madammina: I must implore you to play DQ8. Do yourself the favor!

I just started - my big question is - do you ever get plot-based party members, or just the generic party members you assemble at the inn? I preferred the DQ8 party where each character had a backstory etc...

@v-i-z:

@dracosummoner: Ugh. I still don't... get it... (not the joke you made - him.)

If this comes out for XBLA or PSN, I'm on it. Or Android for that matter.

Not sure if this is the case in Japan, but in the US, Nintendo (NST Redmond) pays super high bonuses but much lower salaries - this means the employees make a good amount of money, but 25-33% of it is often bonus pay, meaning Nintendo can drop it in a bad fiscal year to stay in the black, and unfortunately for the…