Critical acclaim, for a handheld game. I hate handhelds with a passion. They just don't make any pragmatic sense to me. It is a reduction in production assets for the sake of portability, portability that I never use in the first place. Even if all the game elements are left intact, the games still suffer from this reduction in sound, graphicals, and post prod.Vandalvideo

I think that handheld systems are under-rated, but home consoles are over-rated.There are benefits of a portable game system than a stationary one.

It seems that many of the denizens of System Wars are more concerned with technical power than what people play games for: gameplay and fun.

When does FF 13 come out in Japan?

Rza_rectah

It will be released in on December 17, which is a Thursday.

Please do not take rumors of Nintendo and NVidia as confirmed fact. There is no confirmation that Nintendo and NVidia have ever signed a contract regarding the use of the latter's TEGRA chips for Nintendo's successor of the DS family.

Japanese software/hardware sales ranking (Media Create): 10/26 -11/01

Software (Top 10 only):

Rank./ System/ Title/ - weekly sales

01. [PS3] Bayonetta – 135,242*NEW*
02. [NDS] Final Fantasy Gaiden: Four Warriors of Light – 114,714*NEW*
03. [PS3] Tekken 6 – 103,105*NEW*
04. [PSP] Persona 3 Portable – 94,287*NEW*
05. [NDS] Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver – 87,594
06. [WII] Wii Fit Plus – 81,427
07. [360] Bayonetta – 64,325*NEW*
08. [NDS] Tomodachi Collection – 53,159
09. [NDS] Inazuma Eleven 2: Kyoui no Shinryakusha – Fire / Blizzard – 41,437
10. [WII] Super Robot Taisen Neo – 26,559*NEW*

Hardware:

DSi - 37,517
PS3 - 36,061
PSP - 34,911
PSP Go - 29,109
Wii - 28,888
DS Lite - 6,902
Xbox 360 - 6,047
PS2 - 1,966

The Eurogamer video is a collection of video clips found on the official Japanese web site which launched just today. Go there for better quality videos.

[QUOTE="nintendo-4life"]It's good for Nintendo to lost some market share, they should wake up and respond to that hopefully.darth-pyschosis

yea hopefully they'll put out more than three AAA games in three months on DS from now on, i don't know how they think they can get away with Layton, Zelda, and Mario & Luigi in any quarter of the year.

It not the game's score that will drive Wii sales, but whether it is a "must buy" item. As long as these AAA games sell systems and software Nintendo will be in better shape. The upcoming games need to sale like Mario Kart Wii and Super Smash Bros. Brawl, not just get a subjective score, as scores will not guarantee high sales.

Bowser X in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story. Very annoying as he will vacuum up every Special Attack used against him, and the Mario Bros. will have to pass a fiery obstacle course when he grows very big and starts to pursue them.

It is a good thing that he is an optional boss (based on the original Bowser) and only appears in the optional Challenge Node minigame (The Gauntlet) which requires the Mario Bros. to fight against difficult versions of the bosses they fought against. Too bad there is no equivilant for Bowser, especially against the four giant bosses.

Why isn't action adventure in the poll? It happens to be fave.

kingdre

There is a limit on how many poll choices can be shown on the GameSpot forums. This is unfortunate, as putting "others" gives the impression that the genres not listed on the poll are insignificant. Action-Adventure is a major gaming genre, as do platformers and RPGs (of all stripes).

Bigboi500, racing is a sport as it requires skill and is of a competitive nature. Perhaps many do not see racing (vehicles or animals) as a sport due to the fact that athletes use a vehicle or an animal to compete, even though using one requires skill.

The better-designed and better-content Japanese web site has launched. This is what I like about the Japanese Nintendo web site -- its rich content and information for Nintendo games.

It may be best if all Wii HD discussions are put into a stickied thread. There is no need to have one thread almost everyday.