Look it sounds ironic, but it makes so much sense. Now that Square enix is looking for an amerian publisher to help with american marketing and the know fact that Microsoft is trying to tap into the japaniese market it just seems ideal for the two to make a partnership. Xbox 360 needs good RPGs. Square needs more US sales, therefore they need a console that a lot of american house holds have xbox 360. think about it..

What really gets me is how proud he is of Dead or Alive.. Dead or alive is an ok fighting game. OK at best. It is not the best by far and this has nothing to do with consoles. Its just not that good of a fighting game. all you have to do to be good is button mash. pretty much all it has going for itself is intresting characters and for itagaki to reapeatedly say its the best fighting game just makes him look like a fool. Although out of the current gen fighting games DOA is rated the highest but Tekken DR is olny trailing by 6 points and its last gen. imo tekken is way more a fighting game then DOA.

Now ill give credit where credit is due. Ninja gaiden is a great game and i have not played sigma or black. the original for xbox was great and took up a lot of my time when i got it. it was the reason i got an xbox. With that said it's still not perfect no matter how many time itagaki says it is. He is like the kanye west of game developers. over glorifiying his own stuff and stright doging everyone elses. Remember that stuff he said about hevenly sword that was just B.S. I use to like itagaki but his attitude is just terrible to me. He said sigma would give people a reason to have a PS3 and it is a good game but it has been done before twice! And to me the screens of ninga gaiden 2 dont look much better than sigma. All i notice is more blood. And then he says this:

"Please enjoy the world's best action game running on the world's most powerful hardware, the Xbox 360," concluded Itagaki, as he cued a real-time demonstration.

which is fine but if playstaion was publishing the games im sure we would have heard something like:

"Please enjoy the world's best action game running on the world's most powerful hardware, the PS3," concluded Itagaki, as he cued a real-time demonstration.

i dont know if anyone else notices his fakeness but it gets on my nerves.

As we all know history repeats it self and as i have high hope for the ps3 all this negative talk coming out of the devs. is kind of worrying me. The ps3 is new technology that programmers have never seen before(unline the red ring box which programming scheme is last gen), so naturally it will take time to get use to, but if the developers dont take the time to embrace the software than its all a waste. They all may just take the easy way. maybe the ps3 is too ahead of its time, As long as people accept these recycled games like the raindow six franchies, medal of honor (total EA trash) and other FPS and mediocre sports games, then totally bashing any form of innovation, dare i say it, lair, we as hardcore gamers who are looking for a truely embracing expereince will be left in the dark because we, it seems, are the minority in the gaming world. we will be stuck with the same old CRAP.

Every time a game is over hyped before it is released and the game comes out and its not what everyone was waiting for, people get mad and start pointing fingers when really the only ones to blame are ourselves for getting so excited over something we only knew in theory, it hurts the system because it is the one that takes the undeserved fall, some people will argue that its the developers fault but everyone knows its all reflects on the system as devs. seem to like to blame the systems. If this trends keeps up i fear developers are going to take the safe route and game progression will slow down extremely. I just really like games with good stories, gameplay, settings, characters ect.(all do not have to be present). Dont get me wrong i like FPS as much as the next gamer, but What i really get excited for is a that is "outside of the box" like lair or LBP. We all know the fate of lair, it was over hyped and when the reviews came it was yesterdays trash. For all we know (until we play the game) the reviewer could be pretty arrogant and get upset when they feel like they should pick the controls up faster than they are so they giive the game a bad review. which bring my next point.

Dont be hardcore on reviews, check the game out your self if your interested in it. you may see something in the game the reviews totally over looked, one mans trash is another mans treasure. i hope i could give yall some incite into what i think may kill the PS3. So far a less superior system is doing the best so im sure somewhere in the back of sony's head is we could have just taken the easy way and done fine. All these things are on my mind and im sure i left some stuff out but you get the main idea and honestly most people will see all these words and say im not reading all that. I just want people to be concious of there games and gaming because believe it or not we as gamers control the future of gaming not the devs. not the console makers and not the critics. After all with out gamers no one would buy the products so keep that in mind.