Whoops, double post.
No love for Retro City Rampage?
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Someone up there clearly likes us.
"has TLS been confirmed for a NA/EU release?"
No. Also unconfirmed: Dragon Quest X, the new Fatal Frame game, Tales of Graces (though the fan translation is supposed to be coming along nicely), Xenoblade, Zangeki no Reginleiv, Rhythm Heaven Wii, Captain Rainbow, and the old standbys that at least one region missed out on, Disaster: Day of Crisis, Another Code R, and Excitebots.
The lone bright spot about the Wii's nearly-empty 2011 release list for next year is that it just might convince the craven folks at Nintendo of America to localize a couple of games like this that they would otherwise pass on.
"It's strictly common sense."
It is strictly common sense to care about things that do not matter to you? That doesn't seem right.
"Other M, additionally, paid no attention whatsoever to the events of or characters introduced in the Prime games."
That might be true, but we should remember that the thought process that went into formulating Other M's plot was largely indefensible.
"So safe to say that whole side-series is going to be left in the past and not referenced any more."
:-/
"1)It's not over, and even when the next Xbox launches, the PS3 has an extra year to even the score."
This mindset perplexes me. If that happens (or conversely, if that doesn't happen), to whom is that going to matter and in what practical way? Do people honestly think that third-parties are going to look at what amounts to a minor PowerPoint bullet and suddenly say "Well, after years and years, it turns out that console A eventually sold a small amou...
Honestly, I do not know about that anymore. If there is anything we have seen from the PS3, the 360, and the DS, it is that one should really not discount the effect that even a relatively simple hardware refresh can have on demand.
Price cuts will of course help, but come with obvious disadvantages (eroded revenue, not viable in the long-term, and that they arguably have not even been that historically effective in the short-term for the system).
Softwa...
"Vanquish has an impressive level of polish. The story and character development, however, aren't engaging"
okay IGN while you talk about things that should not really matter in an awesome shooter, i'll just be over here.
The message to take from this is that Ubisoft saw the latest NPD numbers, noticed how Activision managed to single-handedly kill off the entire music genre in just three years, and said, 'Pffft. We can top that.'
Why is it that when people list the things they want out of the Wii successor, they always come up with the most bizarre choices and priorities?
'An online infrastructure that meets twenty-first century standards and digital downloads that are tied to accounts instead of systems? Forget that, give us 3D and a meaningless achievement system instead!'
"Including one from Sonic 5: Episode 1"
My god, they're already on Sonic 5.
"2011 will be the year of the playstation 3!"
What a shame; without numbers, we won't even know it.
"To my knowledge, Sony has never disclosed monthly sales...ever."
Er, right, because they had NPD to do that.
"Why do you suddenly think they'd start now?"
Because they no longer have NPD to do that.
Same reason that Microsoft and Nintendo 'suddenly started now' to release the exact same information that has always been released.
"will get great reviews."
I don't know about that; I foresee a lot of reviewers being turned off by the inability to die.
"Where's Sony's numbers? What are they hiding?"
It sure is nice how not being given numbers has put a stop to all crazy console-war arguments, right, guys?
"What's the point of having numbers when they are not exactly accurate?."
Because 'accuracy' does not exist in a binary state, and 'exact accuracy' is not something we even care about anyway. Do you notice how the numbers we get from Halo say 3.3 million and not an *exact* total of 3,328,792? If the margin of error is, say, plus or minus a couple thousand, does it matter? No, because that error essentially disappears when the number is rounded ...
That reminds me, I should probably pick up the Wii version while it's still only a little more than half of that. At least then I can play it once the fan translation comes out.
"think someone just likes arguing"
How so? I'm just trying to understand your interest in what seem to me relatively inconsequential details.